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Topic: Recheck the bearing count. (Read 1390 times)
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Cedric Akins
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Hey Cody, got the book the other day and it is just great.  I looked it over and was about to order all my parts when I realized that the book lists 22 bearings and I count 12 per section, times two, plus 4 per elbow/sholder joint, which makes a total of 32. By the way I will be making a few modifications to the arm to suit the spring widths, almost .5" wider and 1" longer, I had already purcahased. I just hope I added everything in the right place. I will keep you and everyone else posted on my progress once I get all of my materials. |
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Wade Francom
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Good job, Cedric. We also ran into that when we built ours. We forgot to post it here, however. Hope your build goes well!
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Cedric Akins
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Thanks Wade. I won't make the pulley assembly because, I had ordered 30 bearings from a distributors on eBay at an extremely good price and found I would be a couple short and I plan on using some premade pulley and bearing assemblies I purchased from Homedepot. But thanks for the encouragement. I dropped the plans off at the machinist on Jan 4th 2006. Hopefully I will get a good price on labor. |
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Trevor Crump
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Hell I wished I lived near a machine shop or at least a supplier of aluminium....  Hey Wade any news yet.... |
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Sunny North Queensland, Australia (the land Down Under)
Steadicam Opp/ Videographer / Photographer, Camera crane, Film maker, events photographer/videographer
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Wade Francom
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On an aluminum supplier? Ya... I can get all the pieces cut to size within a half day notice, for right around $100 US.
On a machinist?.......That's a different story. The machinist that did our 2 Cody II arms I feel isn't interested in picking anything else up. He is, however, talking to people he know to see if he can find anyone else in picking up a good side project. I'll see if I can get an update from him by early next week.
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Cedric Akins
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 What in the...... kind of price is this? $3,358.08 just for labor on the arm pieces.  Not the sled, gimbal, vest and the arm, I have to supply the aluminum and steel stock they will just charge me for the labor on the arm by itself. $3,358.08,  ,what the is this? Highway robbery. I might as well buy a preassembled unit from Silver Spring, Steadicam, Glidecam, or any other Commercial rig. I might just purchase a mini mill and do the work myself. www.Sherline.com has mills and lathes for sell. If the guy had said it would be in the range of $400.00 to $600.00 I would have gladly paid that. After hearing his quote I almost don't want a stabilizer. I will check back with the university professors and see if they are still interested in obtaining one for the campus. I spoke with two professors last semester and was told to show them the plans and they would let me know if there was a student capable of doing both units. Oh well. |
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Trevor Crump
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So he didn't want the job. Find another one.. |
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Wade Francom
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Ya...... I can find someone else willing to do it, probably for the same price, but it may take a stroke of luck to find one.
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Russ Krook III
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That IS highway robbery. Heck, the machinist locally I talked to quoted me around $1500 for the whole arm including materials but not springs. Still out of my price range at the time, but better than $3300!
Russ
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Russ Krook III, Amusement Manager ... but what I really want to do is direct. No stabilizer completed yet. Lousy videos up for viewing.  |
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Cedric Akins
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He was just the first on the list of machine shops in the Yellow Pages. I have a lot more to go through before I am done. But like I said earlier I will try to find out if the professors at the university I attend would still be interested in helping me do the build of two units, one for the school's film and video classes and the other one for me. This option is the best cost wise but I don't want to wait until the end of the semester before I can at least try it out. One other option, with any luck, is to find someone reasonably priced to do the work. My last option is to try the build myself. This is not likely to happen, work, a new school semester with homework that could choke a horse and a dinosaur  , not to mention work, my other projects, dolly and track, crane and remote jib head, follow focus, I don't have enough time in an hour let alone a day. I am about to loose it  . Maybe I should learn to relax and manage my time better. Do one thing at a time, Patience, breath, patience, breath, patience, breath, relax. OK all better now. $3,358.08 wait a minute........ |
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Russ Krook III
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I approached the local university 2 years ago, but it was late winter/early spring and by then all the machinist classes already had their projects picked out so it was too late in the game for that. My father is looking like he'll be able to work on mine (being a machinist by trade) so we'll have to wait and see. He's been pretty busy and has had the plans since early in the winter, but now he's thinking about it anyway. Good luck on your own searching! Russ |
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