A few tips for mechanical design 🔧✨
What have I prepared for you this time?
A simple press that once replaced hard manual labor.
While it was done using a dedicated fixture,
it still required significant strength from the operator 💪
The goal: Insert two sliding bushings
onto the ears of a simple tension spring.
The device itself is simple,
but I want to highlight
a few key design principles here:
🟧 Orange: Housing the cylinders in place so they aren't subjected to radial forces. I chose to use a rod-eye connection at the cylinder end and a trunnion connection at the front—standard accessories, no custom design needed.
🟪 Pink: Very user-friendly and easy to operate. Placing parts when the cylinders "threaten" to drop on your fingers isn't fun... So, a small tab that tilts the base where the parts are placed adds both convenience and safety, bringing us to...
🟩 Green: Two-handed operation 👐. For those unfamiliar with this principle, the operator's two hands must press the switches simultaneously. In this case, the machine has no external control—everything is pneumatically controlled, meaning there's a pneumatic logic circuit that prevents the cylinders from lowering unless both switches are pressed simultaneously.
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