great idea! The actuation mechanism looks much better! I liked the movement and sci-finees of the old one better though. I think it would help the mechanism if the yellow bushings where in a fixed connection. It could also be beneficial to swap the black and Center bushing with one of the small black gears and have a gear rack piece for the movement. It would be less jerky at the beginning and maybe even have a nice place to integrate that banana piece!
I know. It's tragic. It's actually a cool piece, the curve on each side allowing for a cool conversion of lateral reciprocal motion into reciprocal twists. I've seen machines just like that, with a curved lever being pushed and pulled by a slide. But it doesn't work with the force I put on it for this build. Gonna stick the banana in my back pocket for later use 😁
great idea! The actuation mechanism looks much better!
I liked the movement and sci-finees of the old one better though.
I think it would help the mechanism if the yellow bushings where in a fixed connection.
It could also be beneficial to swap the black and Center bushing with one of the small black gears
and have a gear rack piece for the movement. It would be less jerky at the beginning and maybe even have a nice place
to integrate that banana piece!
thx for the advice
But now we don’t get the cool banana!
I know. It's tragic.
It's actually a cool piece, the curve on each side allowing for a cool conversion of lateral reciprocal motion into reciprocal twists. I've seen machines just like that, with a curved lever being pushed and pulled by a slide. But it doesn't work with the force I put on it for this build. Gonna stick the banana in my back pocket for later use 😁
@@ericlandreneau5855 maybe put the banana as decorative piece as a nod to the mechanical idea 😉