@jigmedatse At that distance in that position it hits the wheel in various easily-created and realistic circumstances. It also does it with another few cm so I need more like 10-15 for safety.
@moira I don't know much about the strength of PLA but I look at that and imagine it snapping. Have a strip of metal you can drill and attach for the long part?
that’s much better. I need to tilt the sail back to make it lever properly against the frame and also put in some kind of attachment point for a slim securement - even a zip tie would be good I think - for full rotational stability. and maybe some anti-flex supports on the long piece. but the wheel distance is good now and I think in metal this should be okay.
@NewNordicNormal it’s fun! plastic isn’t strong enough of course - this thing can’t even hold up the full weight of the trailer in PLA. But it’s great prototyping fun and that’ll get me the right object to render in metal!
(worst case I’ll send the digital file off to one of those commercial services)
@pbl0m@NewNordicNormal I keep saying that the final will be milled or otherwise in metal and people still go "that plastic won't hold up." That's one of the reasons I've started mentioning it every post.
I don't know what orientation would likely be better than this one; the layers (which are the strongest part by a lot) run the length of the piece.
The right material might make a lot of difference but I'm really not coming up with much that'd survive.
If I were to try to make it with plastic - even high strength plastic - I'd change the design rather substantially, making the long attachment bar much thicker and make it also be the actual hitch itself, rather than allowing the hitch to bolt onto it. I think that could work.
@pbl0m@NewNordicNormal It'd end up looking something very roughly like this I think - you'll have to excuse the blockiness and barbaric lack of chamfering, I'm afraid:
@wlukewindsor@iris it's worse than it looks, i mean, at the moment of that photo it's okay but even just steering the bike gets it close enough to make contact and that's bad
@iris nooo I don't want to bend it, that's harder than it looks and I don't have the tools
I know what I need to do and that includes knock off some pieces in CAD and that'll let me get to a shape I can use and that I can either have milled or shape myself out of non-scrap lumber, i think ^_^
@moira when I was a kid, I had a book about birds that came with a little birdcall device, which ammounted to a wooden bead around a small metal shaft. You would twist the bead around the metal shaft with a little pressure, and the friction would cause it to "chirp". Sounds like you have something similar going on here.
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