Gyroscope from Manufaturing Class
Last week of class, so in EME 50 (manufacturing for mechanical engineers) shop this week we had a spin off to see who's gyro built for the class stood up the longest. My bearings were far from perfect, so I didn't stand a chance of winning, but my 5m03s was respectable (Winner was 6m and change, that last minute is hard to get). I finished all my projects for the class fairly quickly, so I had plenty of time to polish it. Luckily, my dad has an old metal lathe he wants me to look at to decide if I want it or not, so I could most likely refresh my bearings on it.
Final picture is next to a deck of 3x5 cards to give you an idea of scale. I've been running it quite a bit now that I've taken it home, but am still getting a decent 4 minutes out of it (2 minutes is required to pass the class). The bearings do have a finite life span, and they are definitely already showing heavy wear.
Interesting project. Any chance you could post plans of this one?
ReplyDeleteI would, but the plans are long lost to the end-of-the-quarter class paper purge. Sorry.
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