10-08-2009 Paint Mixer 2 Installation 10-09-2009 Paint mixer 2 Installation On to wiring 10-12-2009 Made some unplanned changes. We no longer are hooked up to water. We will use the sump tank as resivoir to flow water through the brush tank. I am going to wire in switch that turns the pump on when the B is forward. I ...
09-21-2009 Paint mixer 2 control board 09-22-2009 Paint mixer 2 Started on the turntable!!! ; 09-23-2009 Paint mixer 2 Should have this knocked out by tomorrow the I can start mounting it on the machine. Sliced my left thumb open makes typeing on phone even slower. 09-24-2009 Paint mixer 2 Thanks for the server help they got what they needed. Got all ...
08-27-2009 Paint mixer 2 progress Got the pistons finished yesterday started on the heads today. Had to change the design a bit those thread caps weren't cutting it. Good news is that we can use unthreaded pipe as a result. I am sticking with nipples for this one since the shafts are finished for the 6 ...
08-14-2009 Vangobot 2 discussing paint delivery system I am trying to get away from air and valves. This is plunger similar to a screw valve controlled by a reversible motor. Knowing the RPM's of the motor threads per inch of the screw and the volume of the chamber we could totally meter the amount of paint ...
08-06-2009 Vangobot 2 "boat painting" Got through 13473 lines no problems...colors were mixing well. Still have some drips (from the palette sump) so I put a diaper on it. In reality the water limit switch clicks on and off due to the movement. Does the job though. I cleaned the brush in place cleaned the manifold ...
07-14-2009 Canvas hold-downs build and installed on painting table. 07-16-2009 The following discussions concerning the performance of the palette system, a prototype is built but soon abandoned; ultimately,problems concerning performance and cleanliness lead to entirely new systems for vangobot 3. 07-24-2009 A new belt design for the looping palette 07-24-2009 ...installed a ridge on the V axis to allow ...
06-18-2009 Photo references.. outside the studio: sky on the first day of the VB2 build and sky on first full day of painting! 06-18-2009 First day painting results Landscape; 24x36 Only issues I see are grouping colors by family reversible palette to save on paint and the brush squeege. I marked where I stopped right at a color change. ...
06-06-2009 Continued trouble with paint delivery I've spent the morning reading about high viscosity fluid dispensing any thing off the shelf is way out of our league were talking 600 plus bucks for screw valves that can lay out a drop or bead of paste down to .0375ml. So I started reading through patents and I found ...
The paint mixing system is satisfactory, We start on a "windmill" brush changer, allowing the machine to select from a variety of brushes when painting. 05 12 2009 : Windmill brush changer shown mounted to new brush extension armature. The new armature replaces the first failed system shown on 03/26. It is powered by a ...
In addition to needing to clean the paint engine, we found too much residual energy in the vinyl paint delivery lines. Once the paint was pressurized it didn't want to stop flowing due to gravity. So a measured pulse of paint would not stop at its desired volume... it would trickle additional paint ...