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Title: These guys are definitely MAD
Post by: Brass_Machine on April 11, 2017, 09:17:04 AM
Interesting reading/viewing

Make it Extreme (http://www.makeitextreme.com/en/newsroom/list/ALL/page/1)


Eric
Title: Re: These guys are definitely MAD
Post by: awemawson on April 11, 2017, 10:50:58 AM
I bet that that's exhausting to pedal, with a single ratio  :bugeye:

I've seen their tube cutter somewhere on the web - it was briefly seen in the video.
Title: Re: These guys are definitely MAD
Post by: mattinker on April 11, 2017, 11:28:13 AM
They've made a lot of interesting things!
Title: Re: These guys are definitely MAD
Post by: Ginger Nut on April 13, 2017, 07:59:29 PM
Interesting reading/viewing

Make it Extreme (http://www.makeitextreme.com/en/newsroom/list/ALL/page/1)


Eric

Thanks for sharing I went on to check out this
  :jaw:
Title: Re: These guys are definitely MAD
Post by: PekkaNF on April 14, 2017, 03:42:37 AM
Thank you, these are inspirational.

Like the speed of video, they don't compete with this video:


I did not like the bike episode. Bozo was blocking the trafic. But I like the rough-and-ready approach.

I don't get this "exreme" part at all.

That tube notcher has it's merits. Two things irks me there.

1: The plasma cable bundle exits from the shaft axially. Every design engineer knows that you don't twist cable/hose anything like that. Speicially hydrauli hoses or any other having a reinforcemet. You have to have the cable exiting axially radially and have it coil such a way that minimum bending is not exceeded. It would had only a little imact on design. Bit like cable drum on extension cable.

2: Wiper motors...ok to make proof of concept, but although some are legendary strong (some are even used in MIG wire feeders), generally they donät take much side load. Then they put the motor righ on harm's way.
Title: Re: These guys are definitely MAD
Post by: Joules on April 14, 2017, 05:44:23 AM
So that's  :thumbup: as Mad Modders then.
Title: Re: These guys are definitely MAD
Post by: mattinker on April 14, 2017, 06:26:16 AM
I did not like the bike episode. Bozo was blocking the trafic. But I like the rough-and-ready approach

That tube notcher has it's merits. Two things irks me there.

1: The plasma cable bundle exits from the shaft axially. Every design engineer knows that you don't twist cable/hose anything like that. Speicially hydrauli hoses or any other having a reinforcemet. You have to have the cable exiting axially radially and have it coil such a way that minimum bending is not exceeded. It would had only a little imact on design. Bit like cable drum on extension cable.

2: Wiper motors...ok to make proof of concept, but although some are legendary strong (some are even used in MIG wire feeders), generally they donät take much side load. Then they put the motor righ on harm's way.

Pekka,

I think you're being a little hard on these guys! Like you I thought that "he's holding the traffic up", but, he's being filmed from the car behind! Probably good for the shot, but also saves them from having other cars interfering! I don't know whether you've ever been to Latin America? A couple of trips to Argentina made me realise how much of a third world country it can be. they don't have the money or the resources that we "Westerners" have, so wiper motors look like better options than they maybe would "here"!

All the best, Matthew.
Title: Re: These guys are definitely MAD
Post by: PekkaNF on April 14, 2017, 06:58:09 AM
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I think you're being a little hard on these guys! Like you I thought that "he's holding the traffic up", but, he's being filmed from the car behind! Probably good for the shot, but also saves them from having other cars interfering! I don't know whether you've ever been to Latin America? A couple of trips to Argentina made me realise how much of a third world country it can be. they don't have the money or the resources that we "Westerners" have, so wiper motors look like better options than they maybe would "here"!

All the best, Matthew.

These guys don't seem to be deprived.

My wife is Mexican, although I think that Mexico is more to "rich" northern hemisphere that "the other side". I have been working in Africa and Thailand. What intriques me is that they have inteniquity and they often can make best out of resources they have. What irks me that much is left halfway. "First thing that works must be best ever".

I might have come at more obtuse angle than was my intention.

Pekka
Title: Re: These guys are definitely MAD
Post by: PekkaNF on April 15, 2017, 02:00:53 AM
Further back pedaling....I must say that pretty much all of welds are better that mine. Some places the welds look pretty good. Or maybe more than guy makes the welds (or he is learning fast).

Pekka