Well, if it all works as I hope it will, there's certainly potential for some braiding service. At least for small motorcycle harnesses
Oran (see his post in this section) has sent me his two Chief-harnesses as a pattern to make new ones, so depending on their condition I hope this point is taken care of, too
. Still have to wait 'til they arrive.
I could make some progress, too.
As a distance piece in the middle and also for mounting the tube where the harness will go through, I made an Aluminium ring, with an M50x1 fine thread and bores for polting the top and base plates together.
The tube:
Three bolts and distances for the drive motor:
The motor is of a wire drive of a well known Austrian manufacturer of welding equippment. As they need to pull quite a bit in industrial use for years, it will most likely never die in this application
A good 4Nm of torque and a 1:24 transmission should give the needed "bang":
The drive sprocket is mounted to the motor shaft by a hub with key:
Motor and sprocket mounted to the base plate:
As you can see, there's little space to the distances. Just to be sure I'll turn these down some 1/10mm:
From above:
And top plate set in place:
For now it's running (on a battery at only 12V instead auf the rated 42V). The pcb for foot pedal controll is in progress.
So long,
Andreas