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Bruder Manitou 2150 - RC conversion
ddmckee54:
I'm trying to find a 1.75mm PLA filament that's a close color match to the plastic Bruder uses in their injection molding. I'm going to post this on a couple of different forums and hope for the best.
I've been trying to find a close match to the red they use for my Manitou 2150 RC conversion. I've found a lot that aren't red enough, I've got three or four 1Kg spools of various shades of red to use up now. I bought a spool of what was claimed to be the REDDEST red available - it's called Enzo red. Looked great on the screen, in real life on the spool - not so much!(Couldn't tell the difference between the Enzo red and the bargain basement Solid red.) I found that E-Sun's Fire Engine Red is TOOOOO red, it needs a little yellow. But, it's close enough I can live with it if I have to.
I got the Manitou 2150 at a bargain price, but it was missing few pieces - among the missing was a fender. The only replacement piece I couldn't get from Bruder was the fender, so I printed all four fenders in the grey that I had. The grey that I've got is a little too light, but it also is close enough that I can live with it.
I've got models on the shelf waiting for future conversion where I'll need the yellow that they use for their CAT models and their Liebherr models. Who knows, there might even be a need for a John Deere green in the future. (Even though I was raised on IH red and Ford blue.)
So, anybody know of any close filament matches in PLA? I'm not set up tp do ABS, and I don't want to have to deal with the smell in my living room where the printers are.
Don
ddmckee54:
Nothing of interest accomplished in the last few weeks. I did order yet another spool of Red from e-sun, it's not a close match to the Bruder red plastic either. I'm gonna call the e-sun fire engine red close enough even if it is too dark of a red. I've been gathering parts to put the steering linkages together. What a comedy of errors, MOSTLY my errors.
I ordered a bunch of M2 ball links for the steering. You'd think that would mean that it would be threaded for an M2 threaded rod wouldn't you? I know that's what I thought, so I ordered an M2 tap and die so I could thread the ends of the tie rods. I ordered them from a US supplier so that I would not have to wait weeks for the shipping. I apparently didn't pay enough attention to what I was doing when I ordered the tap and die set, because I ordered a LH tap and die. I then ordered a RH M2 tap and die set, and had to wait another week for it to arrive. By this time the ball links had arrived and I found out that while the ball is drilled to fit an M2 bolt, the link itself was un-threaded. Not only was it un-threaded, it's ID is molded in the correct tapping diameter of an M2.5 tap. So I ordered an M2.5 RH tap and die set and some 2.5mm rod.
On the bright side, IF in the future I EVER need to make M2 turnbuckles, I'm all set up.
I've kept the printer busy cranking out parts for a CNC router I'm designing. I've got over half of the parts that I need to print completed. The total printing time for the parts is about 153 hours and I have about 121 hours of that printed. If I don't have a mess when I get home that will go to 131 hours of printed parts. When I get all the parts printed that will be another build thread.
Don
ddmckee54:
I've been taking a break from the Manitou for a while. I built one of these, a photoetech kit of a Gatling gun, see the 1st attachment. This is not a picture of mine, it's a stock photo of the model. Mine isn't quite that good, but it's close.
Now I'm working on the cutaway model of the Allison 501-D13 turbo-prop, see the 2nd attachment. The military version of this engine it the T56 which just happens to power the C130 Hercules, my favorite cargo aircraft.
Next on the hit parade will be the little jewel that's in the 3rd attachment, a 1/3 scale visible model of the Ford 289. I build one of the Revell Visible V-8 kits when I was a kid. I think I saved my money for most of a year to buy that kit. I actually got it to work which is something of a surprise since I was probably about 12 at the time. I looked into the new version of the Revell V-8 but wasn't impressed, since it's no longer motorized. Besides I believe the Revell Visible V-8 is based on a GM engine, the 283 I think? I'm a Ford guy, so the 289 being Ford blue sealed the deal.
I'll get back to the Manitou when I've got this modeling phase out of my system for a while.
Don
ddmckee54:
This project isn't dead, but is is definitely off the back burner and probably even off the stove. The bigggest problem that I had with it was the number of channels that leveling the crane properly would require. I had come up with a work-around, but I was never really happy with it.
I recently stumbled across the work that Mick thebass has done on his YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbTqmHlFmasSVFomeuu0hsQ/featured Check out his Asua dumper and CAT telehandler builds. The man is a genius when it comes to putting 10 pounds into a 5 pound sack, AND working with Arduinos. Since I've already got an Arduino Nano running the lights for the Manitou, at least on a breadboard, it wasn't much of a leap to start thinking about making it do more.
I've dived down the Arduino rabbit hole once again and from the research I've done, I know that having the Arduino control the servos is ALMOST dead easy. Using the Arduino as the receiver and controlling the servos and lights are the easy parts. I think with a few bucks worth of sensors it should be entirely possible to have the Arduino control the leveling sequence. They are already being used in projects for autonomous control of drones. I don't need active 3 axis control, all I need is slow speed control of the roll and pitch axis. Yaw doesn't really matter when your vehicle is firmly planted on the ground.
I've ordered a couple of rolls of red filament that should closely match the Bruder red. At least I think I have, but nothing has shown up yet. I'll need to check the credit card statements to see if I need to start yelling at somebody to find out where my filament is. Or maybe make a doctor appointment about my memory? AHH... I'm sure it'll be fine.
Don
ddmckee54:
OK, no pictures but I do have an update.
I found several examples on the Worldy-Wide-Web illustrating how to make an Arduino level using a 6050 IMU sensor, or at least how to get the pitch and roll angles. Most of the examples are aimed at making autonomous quad-copters using an Arduino so they need to worry about high-speed responses, dealing with propellor vibration, and gyro drift. None of those are going to be a worry for me since this is a crane with it's feet planted firmly on the ground - figuritively speaking. ALL movements will be SLOW and at a known rate so the gyro isn't really needed. There will be some vibration as the leveling feet are being lowered, but since I'm only dealing with one foot at a time that should be minimal. The gyro was used to help deal with the vibration effects on the 6050.
With the pitch and roll angles it's a short step to auto-leveling a crane. Last night I started out-lining how to have an Arduino auto-level a crane on command. I also ordered a bunch of parts so that I could get the system working on a breadboard.
Now I've got to find the red, grey, and black filaments and print up a bunch of parts to build a mock-up. Then machine some parts to turn the gearboxes into linear actuators, and test all that crap. Then rinse, lather and repeat, if/when those parts fail. Gotta be able to test this and get all the bugs worked out before installation.
Don
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