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What have you made?
MEAT:
Yeah that's probably the way of doing it, id wanted to stay away from creating friction on the line, thinking that wear might be an issue, it would be nice if the braking force was proportional to the speed too, so you get a smooth start/stop on it.
I've got a load of 608 bearings kicking around, so maybe i could do something like you suggested, but pinching the line between two bearing races, rather than static surfaces....
@ss4oLe:
MEAT - where do you work and how did you learn to do what you do? on job training or schooling?
that this is cool!
ad.:
Meat - you need some sort of fan then. This sort of blade probably makes sense
MEAT:
Was there supposed to be a picture or something there? I was mulling it over earlier and got the idea to do a fan something like a paddle steamer on the middle wheel, but with blades that you can flare like the prop on an aeroplane, so when the blades are set at 90deg sticking out relative to the alu chassis bit you get max resistance, as you angle them inwards the resistance decreases, until they're parallel with the chassis and not really doing anything, kind of like a classic windmill in a side wind.... no idea if any of that makes sense, even less idea if it'll actually work...
I work for an engineering and design consultancy, design stuff from scratch for other companies mostly and then oversee its manufacture. It has its ups and downs, the good days are brilliant, the bad days are fucking awful. Did an engineering degree, worked for a year or so then did an industrial design degree.
Alex.:
Not me, but figured this was a good place to post it. Hand making a knife.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R98cGkhN18o
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