Weight of the arm system Thought about the weight, and I was not sure that the weight of the complete arm system is ok, or not… (too heavy or not?) Yesterday evening I drew the bucket 3D drawing, and calculated the theoretical weight.…
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…
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…