I woke up at 8 and played games for a while. Then it was up for pet stuff and breakfast, followed by a little surfing. Eventually I got back to work on the contraption.
I started by trying to loosen up everything that moves. After a lot of tweaking I got it to run on 5 volts. With that done I finished the construction. That was basically bolting the hardware to the base. It wasn't quite as easy as it sounds. I was really happy to put the completed contraption on Ellen's work pad so that she could add here's to it. She was too busy watching chick flicks to do anything.
I surfed for a while, but got bored. I decided to start on a couple of RC things. I built a Xt60 to XT30 adapter for the new charger that's coming. I also changed the connector on a battery that I'd bought a while back. When I finished and was putting things away I discovered that my test power supply has a USB adapter output.
When I connected it to the contraption it was not running smoothly. I decided to lube every moving part on it. That improved things. However, it also showed that an interference that I thought I'd fixed was still there and really problematical. Unfortunately fixing it involved a difficult disassembly.
I got things apart and discovered that once again, the Chinese had come up with a lousy design. There was just no way for it to work. I realized that I had to cobble something new out of the left over parts. I took quite a while to come up with something workable. The result involved a lock washer, a grub screw, and a complete redesign and construction of a 6 piece sub-assembly.
By then it was almost 7. I put everything aside for tomorrow. Putting everything together won't be easy and I won't be able to fully test it until I do. I hope it all works as planned.
After that I had a late dinner of leftovers followed by videos for the rest of the evening.
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