This is amazing! I was just thinking about using limit switches, model trains, and 3D printing poop on the color changing systems and it would be so fun to make a silly project for managing printer poop with this type of setup.
I'd love to see that build! All aboard the Poop Train! I set my flushing to 0.40 and only had to bump to go from black to yellow. Under half the default waste... The original idea is for a train lift to a storage level. Same effect as a helix but much smaller. I'm slowly adding a bridge and the lift would replace the bridge...
Hello, how is it assembled? I am trying to put it together, but I’m not sure how to do it. I have questions about how the transmission works because there isn't a diagram, and it’s not clear in the video either. I know it works-that part is shown-but not how to assemble it. Could you help me? Thank you!
Without knowing exactly what you are stuck on... Basically the scissors (L parts) have a top cross and a bottom one. The middle can be one or a dozen. Assemble each of the three Lift parts (L) crosses together into the scissor. The base parts (B) connect to the bottom of the scissor. The part labeled B9 holds M5 and M3 nuts for the main M5 threaded rod from the DC motor and the side mounts between the base and lift. The top is the same with the parts labeld T. The M5 threaded rod spins with the motor. There is a M5 nut buried in the B9 piece which forces that part to move away or towards the motor pushing and ulling the scissor with it. The image on Cults shows the inner parts. What else do you want to see? Hope that helps!
@@handlaidtracksand3dprinted922 Thank you, I’m going to comment on Cults to let you know what’s happening. Thank you very much! Cults message: Let me explain what’s happening. I have all the components you mentioned, screws, motor, etc., all the same. I assembled it, but while the motor starts, after a while it begins to slip and the scissor mechanism doesn’t move. I’m not sure, but I must be assembling it incorrectly, because if I manually rotate the threaded rod with my fingers, the scissor mechanism still doesn’t compress or expand. Inside the B7 piece, I have a nut for the rod, and there’s also another nut inside the B9 piece for the rod. I have assembled the scissor mechanism, and it moves up and down when I press or expand it by hand, so it isn’t blocked or improperly assembled. I’m not sure what’s wrong. I also don’t know where the B16 piece goes because it doesn’t appear in the Cults diagram, or maybe I’m not seeing it clearly. Thank's!!!
Odd I don't see this message on Cults anywhere. The B16 piece is just a pair of slip on feet for under the lift. The wires hung out a bit so it lifts the unit up. My 1st guess would be the nut is spinning in B9 or B7. If the threaded rod turns and both of the nuts don't just spin, it will be forced to expand. Make sure the nuts spin freely on the rod but not the B7 & 9 pieces. B7 takes the force which is why it is braced bewteen the two beams. I put it together in steps. 1st make sure the scissor expands apart from the base, maybe add the top, or at least make sure it moves freely with the top on. Then assemble the base and check the motor moves B9 back and forth and the limits both work. Then hook the far fixed end of the scissors to the base and the other to B9. Assuming the nuts in B7 & B9 aren't spinning, it should work... This was my working prototype but people asked me to publish it. So it is a bit clunky to assemble, but proved the basic design and concept. My idea is for a 60cm long lift bridge to a set of upper storage tracks. Hope that helps! Love to see a Make on Cults if it ever works!
This is amazing! I was just thinking about using limit switches, model trains, and 3D printing poop on the color changing systems and it would be so fun to make a silly project for managing printer poop with this type of setup.
I'd love to see that build! All aboard the Poop Train! I set my flushing to 0.40 and only had to bump to go from black to yellow. Under half the default waste...
The original idea is for a train lift to a storage level. Same effect as a helix but much smaller. I'm slowly adding a bridge and the lift would replace the bridge...
Thank you alot mate
Happy to do it! May build the lift into a train bridge to a second storage level. That was the idea, but it seemed like a fun design effort too!
Hello, how is it assembled? I am trying to put it together, but I’m not sure how to do it. I have questions about how the transmission works because there isn't a diagram, and it’s not clear in the video either. I know it works-that part is shown-but not how to assemble it. Could you help me? Thank you!
Without knowing exactly what you are stuck on... Basically the scissors (L parts) have a top cross and a bottom one. The middle can be one or a dozen. Assemble each of the three Lift parts (L) crosses together into the scissor. The base parts (B) connect to the bottom of the scissor. The part labeled B9 holds M5 and M3 nuts for the main M5 threaded rod from the DC motor and the side mounts between the base and lift. The top is the same with the parts labeld T.
The M5 threaded rod spins with the motor. There is a M5 nut buried in the B9 piece which forces that part to move away or towards the motor pushing and ulling the scissor with it. The image on Cults shows the inner parts. What else do you want to see? Hope that helps!
Added a couple images from my Sketchup drawing to the Cults page to help show how it goes together!
@@handlaidtracksand3dprinted922 Thank you, I’m going to comment on Cults to let you know what’s happening. Thank you very much!
Cults message: Let me explain what’s happening. I have all the components you mentioned, screws, motor, etc., all the same. I assembled it, but while the motor starts, after a while it begins to slip and the scissor mechanism doesn’t move. I’m not sure, but I must be assembling it incorrectly, because if I manually rotate the threaded rod with my fingers, the scissor mechanism still doesn’t compress or expand. Inside the B7 piece, I have a nut for the rod, and there’s also another nut inside the B9 piece for the rod. I have assembled the scissor mechanism, and it moves up and down when I press or expand it by hand, so it isn’t blocked or improperly assembled. I’m not sure what’s wrong. I also don’t know where the B16 piece goes because it doesn’t appear in the Cults diagram, or maybe I’m not seeing it clearly.
Thank's!!!
Odd I don't see this message on Cults anywhere. The B16 piece is just a pair of slip on feet for under the lift. The wires hung out a bit so it lifts the unit up.
My 1st guess would be the nut is spinning in B9 or B7. If the threaded rod turns and both of the nuts don't just spin, it will be forced to expand. Make sure the nuts spin freely on the rod but not the B7 & 9 pieces. B7 takes the force which is why it is braced bewteen the two beams.
I put it together in steps. 1st make sure the scissor expands apart from the base, maybe add the top, or at least make sure it moves freely with the top on. Then assemble the base and check the motor moves B9 back and forth and the limits both work. Then hook the far fixed end of the scissors to the base and the other to B9. Assuming the nuts in B7 & B9 aren't spinning, it should work...
This was my working prototype but people asked me to publish it. So it is a bit clunky to assemble, but proved the basic design and concept. My idea is for a 60cm long lift bridge to a set of upper storage tracks. Hope that helps! Love to see a Make on Cults if it ever works!