It's to prevent wear and damage to the anodizing on the chair's axle tube. The lift is designed to be very generic and so it's not really an incompatibility thing. The lift is intended to pick the chair up by the 19mm aluminum cross tube on the backrest but that's not a real strong part to hang the entire weight of the chair from, especially on rough roads. I designed and printed some hooks to lift and support the weight of the chair by the axle tube. In the picture here https://flic.kr/p/2peh56W, there's some white foam tape that was used temporarily. It's not very durable, though.

Top notch as always!

Nice. Looks simple but looks can deceive.

The entire image is still rectangular, or square in this case. As I wrote in my post, I made the pixels of the background transparent.

[image: 53493865826_1f7a6a0cc7_k.jpg] Vauxhall Donkey [image: 53494280140_81798e07d6_k.jpg] Vauxhall Donkey section

@gus r said: Do I see Bakelite? It's supposed to look like that. The trickiest part of this whole thing was finding suitable fonts for the text.

@rich o brien said: I was close to saying AI generated but I wasn't sure. It was the windows and panelling that looked off. If you tried to match that with a render the time needed would be chunky! It failed with the leg style though. But overall impressive. Especially your later share. It seems things especially on the perimeters of the image get painted with a large brush. And you're right about it failing with the legs. Maybe with better prompts. I haven't tried any other AI image generators so I don't know how they compare. Here's another I did yesterday. The original. [image: 53384889175_a0e4194a63_b.jpg] Part of the prompt indicated stucco patches on old brick wall. I got these. [image: 53384453296_aec9ae07f3_b.jpg] [image: 53384764434_604112c340_b.jpg] I like my brick wall texture better but like you say, in the right hands it is pretty amazing. And certainly for no more time than I have invested in the images, it's hard to complain too much. Well, except for the stucco that looks like it was made from a wedding dress.

@rich o brien said: Are the chairs known to fail over time when lifted by its intended bar? I've seen broken backrest frames before although not specifically related to this model of lift. The welds and the hinge mechanisms are clearly not designed to support the about 13 Kg weight of the chair all the time, not to mention the added g-load when traveling over bumps on the roads. @rich o brien said: If you patent it I've the perfect name for it... Axle RoseUp Very good. If I go that route I'll give you a cut of the profits.

LOL! Thank you!. I'm just hacking away at it but so far it's making some sense to me.

Nice model for a very interesting article. Part 1 is in the current issue. Can't wait for part 2 to find out how the story ends.

@rich o brien said: @dave r said: Of course with AI doing that in a couple of seconds, maybe there will be a shift. Artificial intelligence doesn't worry me as much as natural stupidity does. Good point. Natural stupidity does seem to be on the rise.

Most excellent as usual

It was okay until I sat on it! the joints were quite good, but not for 80kg

I would like to do something to smooth it out but it's fine as it is. The threads have a fit typical of metal ones but it won't whistle. I think because the PLA doesn't resonate like bronze, brass, or iron would. I expect I could run steam through it. Once.

@majid thank you. Are you referring to the animations I posted?

Gorgeous work Dave.

It looks like this post doesn't show in the Gallery of the old forum or at least I'm not seeing it. I guess it could be deleted now.

Cool

This might be a little overkill for a steam powered woodworking shop but... [image: 1667252227545-muncaster-7_1-steam-engine-with-stairs-smaller.png] Still some work to do on it. Larger version here: https://flic.kr/p/2nWvdDm