Comment by PurpleFoxy
5 years ago
There is a YouTube channel called “makers muse” where a guy 3D prints some of these. By the looks of it, most of these designs are kind of useless
5 years ago
There is a YouTube channel called “makers muse” where a guy 3D prints some of these. By the looks of it, most of these designs are kind of useless
Just about none of them are useless. All of them were used somewhere. That's how they made it in the book in the first place.
A lot of these sorts of mechanisms have however been made obsolete by modern mechatronics.
For example, washing machines used to have complex gear boxes that made that back and forth motion during washes and also had a second mode for high speed spin cycles. The machine I bought last year has a direct drive BDC motor that simply used electronic control to produce all the motion types. It's just cheaper and in most cases more reliable.
My previous machined died from gearbox failure and replacing it was not economically viable.
You don't have to look around a farm yard or even a suburban garage too long to see a large subset of these in the wild.
You looked at one particular guy's YouTube channel where he 3D prints them and that was enough information for you to decide they were useless?
I read it as two separate notes
1. There's a guy with a yt channel that makes some of these (ostensibly the more useful of these 507)
2. The remainder of the 507 on this site are mostly useless
Which i can understand. I'm sure there's a ton over overlap in functionality with varying complexity.