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 ...
11-17-2009 Paint Mixer 2 Switch to Syringes Thank god we are rural... the local tractor mart had a whole bin 60ml syringes for .99 opening is the same size as smaller syringes 11-17-2009 Paint Mixer Test with Syringes The big ones are double drops the others are 5, 7, 10 and 12.5 11-18-2009 So far I am getting consistent small ...
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 ...
08-06-2009 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 ...
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.
Additional auger modifications we initially planned on using alight bodied gel medium to clean the auger between color mixes. It didn't work so we needed a system to deliver water to clean it. And as a result we needed a way to deal with waste water. Photo shows the shower block and ...