01-07-2010 Painting a Dog Named Woofers With New Paint Mixer Once the new paint mixer was installed a shake down of the system was in order. We began a series of tests for the machine and our painting processes. 01-11-2010 Vangobot 3 plans sent out for fabrication bid 01-15-2010 Monday finish bom to a point I cam get some bids on ...
10-20-2009 Paint Mixer 2 Got the new to guide installed and the front end put back on. From what I can tell it does the trick. However the "B" is still having issues binds every time and won't fully close. Got John an Adrian to help try and pin point where it was catching. Finally tore ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
Sump tank with pump and switch installed. This is to facilitate the removal of the waste water that accumulates during the paint cylinder wash down cycle.
Water exiting the paint engine during clean cycle testing.
Note the vinyl tubes connecting the paint pots to the color engine. Testing the color engine... note the paint pots in the rack plastic pipe nipples, ported cap and ported cam locking cap. These pots are pressurized to deliver the paint to the engine. Testing color mixing --- many more pre/post test photos on record