#garfield Logs

Mar 02 2018

01:16 AM rue_: hah
01:19 AM rue_: everyone misses me
06:43 PM Tom_L: rue_, got anywhere on the A9 design change?
07:37 PM rue_: nope still too much going on
07:38 PM Tom_L: k
07:38 PM rue_: I'll come back around to it
07:40 PM Tom_L: running low on free time here is all
07:41 PM rue_: dont worry, this project is happening over months, not days
07:41 PM Tom_L: i know that
07:42 PM rue_: falling asleep again
07:42 PM rue_: Ig ot the new printer moving
07:42 PM rue_: after smoking it
07:43 PM Tom_L: why would you do such a thing?
07:43 PM rue_: well, I figured the heater was enguaged and dialed up the current
07:44 PM rue_: it was a miswired limit swtich shorting the 5V regulator
07:44 PM rue_: which didn't like 3A
07:44 PM Tom_L: no thermal shutdown?
07:44 PM rue_: apparently not
07:44 PM Tom_L: ahh no... this is china..
07:45 PM rue_: LM1117 -5.0 SMT
07:45 PM rue_: today I got my rolls of plastic fom amazon
07:49 PM Tom_L: oh glue gun plastic?
07:50 PM Tom_L: was gonna try to cut some steel strap clamps but i'm not sure i'm goin out there tonight
08:26 PM ^kat^: http://designerthinking.com/sheetmetalbrake2.html
08:28 PM Tom_L: welds look better
08:28 PM Tom_L: nice hinge idea
08:29 PM ^kat^: it's quite tight, no slop at all
08:29 PM ^kat^: each nut has 3 points where it's welded, not just the one bead on the top
08:32 PM ^kat^: the bar across the back is for the clamp to bear back against
08:32 PM ^kat^: adding feets back there will stabilise the whole thing to a table
08:34 PM ^kat^: atm, i can swing it 135 degrees
08:34 PM ^kat^: i expect when i get that far i will have already added a shim to the moving plate
08:35 PM ^kat^: ( square stock , vise gripped )
08:35 PM ^kat^: (or a piece of 1.5" flat bar stock )
08:36 PM ^kat^: the width across from inside nut to inside nut is 12.5 inches
08:36 PM ^kat^: err
08:36 PM ^kat^: the width across from inside nut to inside nut is 20.5 inches
08:36 PM ^kat^: my paws are tired
08:36 PM ^kat^: i was aiming for 19", and just been overengieering it as i go
08:39 PM ^kat^: how to get humans to sing the notes you want, when you want : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d71xUmiWSzo