No, it means that I needed one after my lift and arm install.
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Delta VS
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Quite a few folks have been inquiring about radius arm stock since we had to pause sales a little while ago. Some of the reasons for this pause are:
1. Massive hiccups in metal supply
2. Incorporating the “long” version arms
3. Streamlining production of the arms
Turns out our welders HATE welding the radius arms. We make a huge number of them, they have a long, straight weld (I.E., boring), and with a super hot spray-arc process.
We’ve had our old first cnc machine taking up space in the corner for a bit now and decided this was the time to switch it over from routing/plasma cutting to welding. Radius arms are the perfect fit a simplified CNC process, so it has been done:
This means we will be opening up radius arm sales again in the very near future!
1. Massive hiccups in metal supply
2. Incorporating the “long” version arms
3. Streamlining production of the arms
Turns out our welders HATE welding the radius arms. We make a huge number of them, they have a long, straight weld (I.E., boring), and with a super hot spray-arc process.
We’ve had our old first cnc machine taking up space in the corner for a bit now and decided this was the time to switch it over from routing/plasma cutting to welding. Radius arms are the perfect fit a simplified CNC process, so it has been done:
This means we will be opening up radius arm sales again in the very near future!
Dirty Koala
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Fancy shmancy
Dirty Koala
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Sipping tea while the robots make you rich
JaketheSSnake
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Awesome! I was about to bump this thread the other day asking about the long arms.
So what’s the lead time or availability of these…I’m ready to buy right now
jkeithw
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Ready for a set too. Post up when your ready to take my money.
Are your arms (3) plates welded together?
Maybe consider sub-arc for that application as well. I realize you are utilizing tooling you already had and adapting.
However, you've spent a lot of time getting that setup to work properly. That weld looks great!
Do you guys do any NDT on the arms for QA purposes?
alia176
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@Delta VS
Really liked the video, some newb questions, if I may:
- do you first weld manually in order to "train" the computer? After the computer knows the path, it simply repeats?
- if you stop the welding, move then start again. Does the computer learn this action as well?
- how do you prevent warpage?
Really liked the video, some newb questions, if I may:
- do you first weld manually in order to "train" the computer? After the computer knows the path, it simply repeats?
- if you stop the welding, move then start again. Does the computer learn this action as well?
- how do you prevent warpage?
Delta VS
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1. No “training” of machine, it’s all in the software. It’s only traveling in one direction (and up and down a little). There are robot welders that you do setup that way, but they are typically 6-axis machines (a robot arm) and cost many tens of thousands of dollars. This one was made from stuff laying around the shop.
2. Again, no learning going on here, all comes from the software telling the machine what to do. Software is programmed by us.
3. The welds are on the edge of thick material, not on the large surface area parts. Difficult to warp that.
alia176
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ahhh, gotcha. Thanks for the education.
In my previous career life, I used to work with Fanuc robots in the manufacturing world so I was merely curious about your process.
In my previous career life, I used to work with Fanuc robots in the manufacturing world so I was merely curious about your process.
Delta VS
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1. Yes, earlier in the thread you can see the parts they are made from.
2. This machine is made from stuff sitting around the shop and the hand torch from a welder that is used for other things too. Sub-arc would be cool, but a whole other process we can’t afford to get into.
3. thanks!
4. We have done some DT, no NDT.
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Super pro upgrade
alia176
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I can only speak to the manufacturing aspect, packaging a pallet, to be exact. But I'd think it'd learn welding techniques should be similar.
BillyGoatMTB
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Hahahaha, super Fancy
Pinky's up!!!
I just completed the rubicon this past weekend and these arms performed as advertised. I don’t know how much more up/down travel I had compared to those running plates but it as definitely noticeable. And boy did I abuse them on the trail. I haven’t really noticed any dents but I’ll take a closer look and will post pictures of all the damage occurred, can’t really say that bout my front bumper though 
