I see below you're not selling these, however you may be providing the plans to build it. How can one get in contact with you? I could really use this stand and would pay just for the plans themselves.
one question if I may, what is the height of the side spindle in relation to the bench? I am very intrigued with this approach I am ito old hallicraftersradi's in excess of 80 pounds us lol thanks for great video and the idea 73 dan
Found you on Mr. Carlson’s Lab Patreon, most excellent work. I’d certainly pay for plans and make a 3D printed version. Love the design, style and functionality. I’d scale it down by 50%, don’t need the rack mount capability, at least for today. Might be time to take my CAD skills up a notch and give it a go myself. Funny thing, been in tech all 30 years of my career, worked for Danly Die Set / Danly/Komatsu Machine early in my career supporting CAD engineer computers and never learned how to use it. 40 year woodworker, I’ve tried working metal, it’s just not for me. Bought a mill, lathe, band saw, the whole 9. Got 2 years in and realized how much I’ve gotten used to the properties of wood, namely movement, expansion & contraction based on temp and humidity. Working metal that doesn’t do that sent my brain on a spin. But, it’s that foray into metal working that got me back into electronics after not touching them for 30 years, so it wasn’t all in vain, I guess. What did amaze me was how well that tooling held its value, I made back 90% of what I put into it, not many other hobbies that can claim that.
I personally prefer Hickok, but they can be expensive. There are other brands that are decent and a lot less money like Jackson, B&K, and a few others. After testing your tubes for shorts, the best test is if the tube works in the radio or TV.
If you're not going to make these, how about releasing (or selling) the CAD files. With modification, this could be adapted to be 3D printed (albeit with less load capacity).
Absolute Master I spent years in and around machine shops - you are clearly WAY beyond a hobby level. Your workmanship exceeds most of the masters I interacted with.
Sir, this is the best home made stand I have seen in my career, excellently designed and perfectly built. My highest respect!!! In Kind Regards Leon N.
WoW!!! Would love to build this, all I need a metal lathe, a metal ban saw, a milling machine, 2 years of collage to learn how to use all those without losing a finger or 6 years working on other projects to gain the skill and a shop to hold it all in. I will have to pass the first test and that is get permission from the wife to set this all up ;)
@@kfourom Yes, I have seen them. And some manufacturers "chickened out" and went to using the clip on style of sheet metal nut that would accept either 10-32 or 10-24. And you could force a 12-24 screw into them. I do not think there is any real standard that covers more than one segment of the electronic industry, but as I said above, 10-32 is as close to that as you can come. This is not a big thing unless you are in a large facility with more than one or two equipment racks - as I often found myself. Then you are interested in just having one type of "rack mounting" screw. I usually purchased them in boxes of 1000. If anyone sent me a rack mounting rail with any other thread, it went back. Every facility has it's share of goons who will make the screw they happen to have in their hand FIT. No matter what. So I hate to see any other size of rack mounting screw being used. Too much of that already.
Fantastic design and build. If you are not careful, all your time will be spent making and selling these stands, with no time left for working on gear ;-)
Are you willing to part with the cad drawing, or how much for those plans. If not, beautiful design never the less. Love to put that on my bench and give you credit!
This is the best stand that I have ever seen. You did a fantastic job to created. Excellent job of designing and building. Those sets that you shown are incredible, your work space and test equipments are absolutely awesome. I am speechless. Amazing design! Have a great day and thank you for sharing! Regards, JZ
this is something else, are you a machinist by trade? Thanks for the video, enjoyed it and gave me some ideas to make something similar from hard wood.
I'm a big Scott and Mcmurdo fan. I sold quite a few of my radios (around 40-50) when I moved. I still have a few dozen, all restored, radios. I'd love to add this baby to my collection, but the xyl wouldn't LoL
@@thermionic_emission I wonder, could it be a rounding error stack-up correction ? Are the belt drive ratios that you are using a whole number ratio like 2:1, 3:1, 4:1, etc... or are they a resulting decimal ratios like say 1.7777...:1, 2.4615....:1, etc...?
@@CJ-ty8sv It has something to do with having backlash compensation set. When I set backlash to zero, this does not happen. Moves are still accurate as when you change direction the motor moves extra to pick up the backlash. Commanded moves via MDI don't do this, only the MPG does. Again, no accuracy issues arise from this but it is just weird. There are no non-whole number ratios.
@@thermionic_emission Ahhhh ok... Let me make sure I'm understanding you correctly, Backlash comp off, not problems from MDI or MPG? but Backlash comp on, no problems from MDI BUT do have problem from MPG?
@@CJ-ty8sv Correct. But keep in mind that the MPG moves where this happens are still accurate because when you move again, the control compensates for the little "backward" move it made. It just "dances around" in the backlash sometimes but accuracy is not negatively impacted. Took a bit of time to figure this out.
