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Kilian's Robot Shop of Horrors - 04/22/2003

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The task at hand

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We are going to take...
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that robot arm, and...
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put it there...


First, a trip to the hardware store

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Peter piled in the back
seat.
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Just like Hank Hill, we had
to check out the lawn mowers.
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Doo, dee, doo...
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We need some of these. And
some of those.


Some prep work

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This thing needs some way to
bolt it to the ceiling.
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Alan makes some supporting
beams out of 2x6s.
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They are bolted to the base
of the arm with lag bolts.
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Okay, that looks good. Now
just to flip it up there...
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It was real darn heavy. So we
decided to make some stilts
out of 2x4s.
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Okay, now just flip it up
there...


Move it into place

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Well, it was real darn heavy.
So instead of just flipping
it up there, we decided to
hoist it up the wall.
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Jeff is pretending it was
real hard to manage.
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We let it down on a floor
jack. It was very easy to
balance. AS LONG AS IT WASN'T
MORE THAN ABOUT 3 DEGREES
FROM VERTICAL!!!
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The theory was we would just
roll it across the floor...
Alan would jerk the floor
jack 1 to 3 inches. Then
Jeff would carefully
rebalance it before it had a
chance to kill anybody. It
literally took us 30 minutes
to move 20 feet across the
floor.
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When we got it into place we
jacked it up against the
ceiling.
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Alan started bolting it
into place. These are lag
bolts again.
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When I nod my head, hit it...
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Finishing the last bolt.
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Then we let the jack down.
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Look Ma. No hands.
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Alan is brave enough to
stand under it.
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The lag bolts are screwed
into the ceiling joists.


Now for a test drive.

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This is the parked position.
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This is the fully extended
position.
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Alan does some manual
driving.
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It can reach all the way up
to the ceiling.
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Checking the position numbers.
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And Alan's car still fits
in the garage.


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