Saturday, February 12, 2011
Moon Platform Wrap-up!
TheatreFace: "This week, wrapping up this (longer than I expected) series on the moon platform for Arabian Nights, we’ll walk through the construction of the moon platform we’ve been looking at, including details about the framing, the pneumatics, and the backup hand-brakes. More importantly, as promised, I’ll include some photos and some drawings.
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Pretty straight forward Tech Design. I liked the Idea of using Pancakes in a Break format rather than to raise and lower the casters. What I wonder though is what they used as a brake pad and if there was any issues with the cylinders being torqued as people were acting on top of the platform. I also appreciated the redundancy of manual breaks as well. So much we get caught up in what we are building something cool that we forget that, if the cool part fails, the item still has to function.
Really home for me particularly because this week we are building are pneumatic catapult. (In addition to Midsummer flashbacks.) Something I'm learning here is that KISS also applies to materials. For our catapult we had a relatively simple idea for the design and then went to almost an all steel fabrication. We had enough time to make all the parts that labor wasn't an issue. Need to be aware that because a material if available, doesn't mean it could be. The TD made a bet with his crew about the bottlenecking and decided to allow all steel construction. I wonder if they could've made the platform out of wood, and allocated the left-over labor to add some details to the rest of the set. Not sure if that first picture is the completed design but the moon platform gets lost in the blandness of everything else.
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