Now I try to explain how I think the arm component construction. All arm parts or items will be made from metal plates. This is an easy way to create strong and not too heavy items. The metal plate is an…
I finished the calculations, now I have the main dimensions of the cylinders, like bore diameter, stroke-, collapsed-, compressed-length. All dimension came from my calculation excel sheet. As I wrote before, the material will be bronze. Currently I’m working on the…
When I drew the arm parts, I thought about hydraulic cylinder’s dimensions from an another viewpoint. There have to be enough space for fitting elements, and pipes… How will be connected the oil pipe into the cylinder? There were two…
How do I get the mechanical dimensions? The mechanical parts dimensions come from the web. Unfortunately I don’t have too much original drawings or dimensions, but have some great pictures and pdfs (like brochures, user manuals, data sheets…). The best and…
Hydraulic cylinder properties, like stroke, force… and what material? The planning started with data gathering. After I could start the drawing and planning. I thought about the parts so many times and -as I thought- the easiest parts were the…
How was the first step? the beginning… At the middle of 2014 I feel so many times a thing, that I have to made something new, something which is different than the current things in my life. The excavators, trucks…