Tips for my Mechanism
Tips for my Mechanism
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Hi Guys, was hoping to run this past some different eyes to see what can be improved and perhaps changed altogether.
https://youtu.be/BBIsmKwa1hU
basically, you pull on the lever with your hand (index and middle fingers) on the white handle to pull it out of the detent, move it to a new location and release... a spring (not shown, but it will attach to the rod coming out of the the square bit and attach to somewhere at the bottom of the rotating arm) will pull the lever back down into the new detent. The rod that I mentioned previously goes through the lever itself and comes out the other end in a similar fashion to the front, you can just see the tip of it from the back, so there will be two springs, one at the front, one at the back. The lever moves inside the square rotating arm thing like a piston.
The thin rods (one that slides into the detents, and the one that fixed the lever to make sure it doesn't rotate inside the cylinder) are 3mm thick but as I type this, I'm realising they can be thicker.
https://youtu.be/BBIsmKwa1hU
basically, you pull on the lever with your hand (index and middle fingers) on the white handle to pull it out of the detent, move it to a new location and release... a spring (not shown, but it will attach to the rod coming out of the the square bit and attach to somewhere at the bottom of the rotating arm) will pull the lever back down into the new detent. The rod that I mentioned previously goes through the lever itself and comes out the other end in a similar fashion to the front, you can just see the tip of it from the back, so there will be two springs, one at the front, one at the back. The lever moves inside the square rotating arm thing like a piston.
The thin rods (one that slides into the detents, and the one that fixed the lever to make sure it doesn't rotate inside the cylinder) are 3mm thick but as I type this, I'm realising they can be thicker.





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All the other pieces are done with just one fixture.
Thanks IRstuff... I have rounded off the entry points.
This is not a transmission lever. The lever must be pulled/lifted to be removed the detent.
What does everyone think about the main pivot joint, should it have a ball bearing, rather than a simple axle?
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