sitsinhedges Posted October 11, 2015 Report Share Posted October 11, 2015 (edited) Just in the process of designing and making a tiny pigeon rotary. The motor body assembly weighs about the same as a pigeon and runs for twice as long as a wiper motor type for a given battery. I haven't got a mig welder anymore so I'm using silver solder to attach some parts such as nuts to trap the arms, it seems to make a nice strong joint. Hope this video works. http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn31/sitsinhedges/th_20151010_122322_zpsezxwpy2l.mp4 Edited October 11, 2015 by sitsinhedges Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenboy Posted October 11, 2015 Report Share Posted October 11, 2015 Idea looks good but a bit slow for my liking and not sure how well a small motor like that will stand up , certainly worth a try though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
la bala Posted October 11, 2015 Report Share Posted October 11, 2015 What diameter is the motor shaft. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deny essex Posted October 11, 2015 Report Share Posted October 11, 2015 Made a small motor one myself some time ago , was with heavier artificial's than hypaflaps, shells and glass fibre wings as body mounts , metal geared and lasted me a year and a half of respectably heavy use, the arms were made of alumimium . Nice job good luck with it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sitsinhedges Posted October 11, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2015 Made a small motor one myself some time ago , was with heavier artificial's than hypaflaps, shells and glass fibre wings as body mounts , metal geared and lasted me a year and a half of respectably heavy use, the arms were made of alumimium . Nice job good luck with it Thing is that I don't use one a great deal but it's handy to have something available in your bag just in case. I hung a bag of cartridges the weight of real bird off each arm to see how it managed and it did quite well. Ran at full speed for 1 1/2 hours with a 1.2 amp flapper battery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dad Posted October 12, 2015 Report Share Posted October 12, 2015 what did you use for the arms, i have a light weight rotary that gets blown all over the place in the wind as soon as the hypaflap turns into the wind it flairs up and looks wrong, i think the arms are too springy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sitsinhedges Posted October 12, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 12, 2015 what did you use for the arms, i have a light weight rotary that gets blown all over the place in the wind as soon as the hypaflap turns into the wind it flairs up and looks wrong, i think the arms are too springy 6mm steel rod, even that has a bit of bend in it over 1300mm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian28 Posted October 12, 2015 Report Share Posted October 12, 2015 Looks good to me well done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sitsinhedges Posted October 12, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 12, 2015 What diameter is the motor shaft. 6mm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunny_blaster Posted October 13, 2015 Report Share Posted October 13, 2015 I made this a while ago. Weighs only a few ounces and runs off a 7ah battery all day with dead birds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sitsinhedges Posted October 13, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 13, 2015 I made this a while ago. Weighs only a few ounces and runs off a 7ah battery all day with dead birds. <script pagespeed_no_defer="" type="text/javascript">//=d.offsetWidth&&0>=d.offsetHeight)a=!1;else{c=d.getBoundingClientRect();var f=document.body;a=c.top+("pageYOffset"in window?window.pageYOffset:(document.documentElement||f.parentNode||f).scrollTop);c=c.left+("pageXOffset"in window?window.pageXOffset:(document.documentElement||f.parentNode||f).scrollLeft);f=a.toString()+","+c;b.b.hasOwnProperty(f)?a=!1:(b.b[f]=!0,a=a<=b.e.height&&c<=b.e.width)}a&&(b.a.push(e),b.d[e]=!0)};p.prototype.checkImageForCriticality=function(b){b.getBoundingClientRect&&q(this,b)};h("pagespeed.CriticalImages.checkImageForCriticality",function(b){n.checkImageForCriticality(b)});h("pagespeed.CriticalImages.checkCriticalImages",function(){r(n)});var r=function(b){b.b={};for(var d=["IMG","INPUT"],a=[],c=0;c=a.length+e.length&&(a+=e)}b.g&&(e="&rd="+encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify(s())),131072>=a.length+e.length&&(a+=e),d=!0);t=a;if(d){c=b.f;b=b.h;var f;if(window.XMLHttpRequest)f=new XMLHttpRequest;else if(window.ActiveXObject)try{f=new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP")}catch(k){try{f=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")}catch(u){}}f&&(f.open("POST",c+(-1==c.indexOf("?")?"?":"&")+"url="+encodeURIComponent(b)),f.setRequestHeader("Content-Type","application/x-www-form-urlencoded"),f.send(a))}}},s=function(){var b={},d=document.getElementsByTagName("IMG");if(0==d.length)return{};var a=d[0];if(!("naturalWidth"in a&&"naturalHeight"in a))return{};for(var c=0;a=d[c];++c){var e=a.getAttribute("pagespeed_url_hash");e&&(!(e in b)&&0=b[e].k&&a.height>=b[e].j)&&(b[e]={rw:a.width,rh:a.height,ow:a.naturalWidth,oh:a.naturalHeight})}return b},t="";h("pagespeed.CriticalImages.getBeaconData",function(){return t});h("pagespeed.CriticalImages.Run",function(b,d,a,c,e,f){var k=new p(b,d,a,e,f);n=k;c&&m(function(){window.setTimeout(function(){r(k)},0)})});})();pagespeed.CriticalImages.Run('/mod_pagespeed_beacon','http://forums.pigeonwatch.co.uk/forums/index.php?s=f0bdfd2f736372367a063f4206a3d31b&app=forums&module=ajax§ion=topics&do=quote&t=322419&p=2921001&md5check=27851993869cf735607ebe17ca816d0c&isRte=1,l8PuqRhht8,true,false,qqoiaNDb9So');//]]></script> &&0 What motor did you use and do you have a link to it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunny_blaster Posted October 13, 2015 Report Share Posted October 13, 2015 It's the same motor as used in the pinewood magnets. I got it off eBay but I don't have the link unfortunately Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
la bala Posted October 13, 2015 Report Share Posted October 13, 2015 6mm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sitsinhedges Posted October 13, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 13, 2015 It's the same motor as used in the pinewood magnets. I got it off eBay but I don't have the link unfortunately Any chance you could find it again and post a link please? I wouldn't know if I was looking at the right one so it would be a guess Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.