Kim

Quote from: cruebyGoing to be a bit of a slowdown on this project for a while. This afternoon I was going out to get the mail, and slipped off the side of the driveway, and wound up attacking the asphalt with my face and left hand. The asphalt won! Minor scrapes on the forehead and nose, but the left wrist hurt a lot. Went up to the local Urgent Care place, lots of them around since we have a major med school and hospital in Rochester. Xrays showed a minor crack down the Radius bone. Fortunately no seperation, movement, the crack didnt go all the way through. But, a splint/cast on the wrist for a while that will keep me from most shop work till it heals.    What a pain in the ... um, wrist!

Yikes!  Glad you're mostly OK! Hope the wrist heals quickly.  That sounds like a lot of no fun! 

Well, maybe you'll have time to catch up on that reading backlog? 

Kim

Wonderful!  It goes around and around and up and down! 


That first picture there looks like you're making an elf flute! 

Kim

Interesting design.  Rather than having the crossbar connect directly to the lever arm, they have a drop-down post to connect them.  I guess the additional part count and complexity let them have a longer stroke length and allow the lever arms to extend below the level of the base of the engine.  But now they have to make sure the levers are all positioned between frames of the hull or they'd have yet another problem! 

They did a lot of things to keep the height of the engine as minimal as possible!

Kim

Hi there!  Welcome to the forum!
Kim

There are a lot of long spindly rods in this design.  I think that adds to its elegance! 

Kim