Those look nice, jdolecki! Not only did you not have to buy them, you also didn't have to wait for them to arrive.
Are our SolidWorks drawings available on-line? They should be. It appears that you drew your own version, as ours has a slight bend in the top and a thinner bottom flat section.
I'll make sure that our drawings are indeed available for download.
Fantastic job, much better than my usual DIY Ping "bracket": two blobs of superglue. Designed to yield in a collision, safety first! Inspired by my 1967 Corvair. '67 was the first year of telescopic steering columns and dual master brake cylinders.
Mr Gracey, I did copy them from you. And thanks for putting them on line.
I did the IR bracket to.
You are correct the top is straight I didn't see the need for the bend in the top.
And I didn't make the hole for the light pipe.
The screws to mount the ping is 4-40.
But I made the bottom a little bit thicker with 10-32 screws. As its for a concierge robot I've been tasked to build and I want to make it a little more rigid.
Building robots cost money 100 here 100 there so any thing I can make myself I do to save money for the big items.
I'm going to build a debur tumbler which should really clean them up. And if I can squeeze some more time out of a day I going to give anodizing a try.
Phil:
For my mill its a 3 axis bridgport cnc. I got it with a bad controller for 1200 dollars.
The Iron was in great shape.
I put new servo controllers on each axis. The stock powertron servos were good.
New encoders and it runs mach3 with a Ethernet interface card. It holds to .005 tolerance which even surprised me. I'm sure I can get better performance out of it but I'm not building space ship parts.
Awesome! Nice to see another metal muncher at work in here! It's just so much fun to draw this or that thing up and then watch the machine make it for you.
Ken, The hole location dimensions for the light pipe are not on the pdf drawing. and...
Ya know robots got to have the flashing lights.
The Parallax standard issue Ping))) bracket uses a plexiglass tube as a sort of "fiber optic" transfer device to the the LED light to the surface (just in case you were not aware).
Phil, I've been wanting one for a while. I been cutting stuff with a hand saw, jig saw and saws all. When the opportunity came
to get it the price was $500 high for me but a steal for a vertical band saw.
Now I don't know how I lived with out it, I use it for everything.
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-Phil
What screw sizes are you using?
Are our SolidWorks drawings available on-line? They should be. It appears that you drew your own version, as ours has a slight bend in the top and a thinner bottom flat section.
I'll make sure that our drawings are indeed available for download.
Ken Gracey
I did the IR bracket to.
You are correct the top is straight I didn't see the need for the bend in the top.
And I didn't make the hole for the light pipe.
The screws to mount the ping is 4-40.
But I made the bottom a little bit thicker with 10-32 screws. As its for a concierge robot I've been tasked to build and I want to make it a little more rigid.
Building robots cost money 100 here 100 there so any thing I can make myself I do to save money for the big items.
I'm going to build a debur tumbler which should really clean them up. And if I can squeeze some more time out of a day I going to give anodizing a try.
Phil:
For my mill its a 3 axis bridgport cnc. I got it with a bad controller for 1200 dollars.
The Iron was in great shape.
I put new servo controllers on each axis. The stock powertron servos were good.
New encoders and it runs mach3 with a Ethernet interface card. It holds to .005 tolerance which even surprised me. I'm sure I can get better performance out of it but I'm not building space ship parts.
Ken Gracey
It says the hole is 0.125 diameter but doesn't give the location on the PDF.
I opened the DXf drawing and the location dimensions are not on there either.
Ya know robots got to have the flashing lights.
-Phil
The Parallax standard issue Ping))) bracket uses a plexiglass tube as a sort of "fiber optic" transfer device to the the LED light to the surface (just in case you were not aware).
-Phil
to get it the price was $500 high for me but a steal for a vertical band saw.
Now I don't know how I lived with out it, I use it for everything.