The supports were surprisingly rigid for being mounted with only two bolts. More to come soon!...
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Proto 1...
I took the measurements of the mounting points and the angles of the trellis sub frame and drew up a prototype in CAD. I took some steel tubing and bent it to the correct angle, crimped the ends drilled some holes and there you have it! I left a little extra on the ends just in case I had to adjust the holes a bit. I will trim the ends later and also paint the tube black.
The Idea...
The first thing I usually do to design something is to go directly into SolidWorks and start modeling but since I wanted this to have some ID influence I started with some pictures and stumbled my way through an open source photo editing program (GIMP) to get an idea about how the support would look.
Once I had the basic design I took some measurements of mounting points and drew up the first prototype.
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