How many wheels have you actually built ?
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- Jon J Hutton
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How many wheels have you actually built ?
Thought this would be a good poll to see how much we are relying on computer design versus sweating it out in the wood shop. You can check the box that relates to your computer attempts then check the box that relates to your actual shop work.
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I build my wheels out of balsa strips (about 5 so far.) 2 ft diameter, takes a lot of punishment, weighs about an ounce.
[edit] I should clarify that I have a couple boxes of already-made mechanism parts (saved from previous attempts) that I can arrange into whatever configuration and fit into the wheel frame (making everything re-usable :), in which case we're talking hundreds of design attempts (instead of the literal 5 wheels built, which I thought the poll was asking....)
[edit] I should clarify that I have a couple boxes of already-made mechanism parts (saved from previous attempts) that I can arrange into whatever configuration and fit into the wheel frame (making everything re-usable :), in which case we're talking hundreds of design attempts (instead of the literal 5 wheels built, which I thought the poll was asking....)
Last edited by MrTim on Mon Oct 08, 2007 3:24 am, edited 2 times in total.
re: How many wheels have you actually built ?
Built 4 or 5 real world wheels [complete build - not just testing componentry].
Ticked approx 100 computer builds as the lowest number available [all were to test componentry or an idea in part, but no complete wheel as such, as nothing so far has panned out in sim world that showed OU]. In reality I have well over 1000 computer files of ideas & variations of the same idea but probably only 20 or so significantly different to be called originals.
But if you were to ask how many distinctly different/novel ideas/approaches [in both mediums] I have had, I would say fewer than a handful that I thought showed any real imagination & were imo demonstrably different than any other idea found in the "museum of unworkable devices". Even then I might be over estimating by a factor of two if I was really to study them all in detail.
Ticked approx 100 computer builds as the lowest number available [all were to test componentry or an idea in part, but no complete wheel as such, as nothing so far has panned out in sim world that showed OU]. In reality I have well over 1000 computer files of ideas & variations of the same idea but probably only 20 or so significantly different to be called originals.
But if you were to ask how many distinctly different/novel ideas/approaches [in both mediums] I have had, I would say fewer than a handful that I thought showed any real imagination & were imo demonstrably different than any other idea found in the "museum of unworkable devices". Even then I might be over estimating by a factor of two if I was really to study them all in detail.
re: How many wheels have you actually built ?
I have built bout 12, counting counting the test ones to see what happens. I am in the prosses of rebuidling 2 that should show power and will be rebuilding another one using brass and stained wood for show that I will use for a clock motor, for that is all its good for as far as I can tell.
As for drawing out blueprint type. I am up to 26 origanel patterns at this time and I wish I could spend all my time working on them, but I got to eat.
As for drawing out blueprint type. I am up to 26 origanel patterns at this time and I wish I could spend all my time working on them, but I got to eat.