Hey guys, so we have some exciting news
We're off on our way to Toronto to pick up an industrial robot arm
We got a trailer behind the truck and it's gonna be awesome
(music playing)
Are there four car batteries stuck?
What are those?
Satnav: Your destination is on the left
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Big shoutout to Air Molded Plastics for getting us an awesome deal
on a six-axis robot arm
so we picked up the robot arm and it's tied down and I'd say it looks pretty good
hopefully it doesn't fall off
we basically paid the scrap metal value of a robot a robot arm that, when it was new
probably would have cost more than a car
I hope we can get it up and running 'cause we have some awesome plans for it
So a little history on the actual robot arm
It used to, in its previous life, it was used as a foam injection robot
for putting the insulation into thermos coolers which is actually
kinda cool. This company picked it up a while ago with intentions
to fix it up and use it but that never happened and they decided to just get rid of it
which is where we found it on Kijiji
We just made a pitstop for lunch and to double check all the chains and ratchet straps on the robot
and one was lose so we're actually gonna stop at Lowe's now and pick up
a few more ratchet straps just to make sure this thing does not go anywhere
because that would suck if it tipped over
And we're still gonna have another hour and a half to drive
so we wonna make sure everything is tied down
Alright let's get going
So how are we getting it down the driveway?
No, I wouldn't park it on an angle, no?
Stop
Yup
The plan is to get the pallet truck underneath
Oh is it gonna fit?
Sure it will
If we can move the controller around
then we could come from this side
the other side
so that's not gonna fit, is it?
Ian, the pallet truck doesn't fit
Just be careful that this doesn't start tipping it
It's tipping slightly, but...
If you think you can, or even like
Yeah, never mind
What?
No, do what you're doing
Maybe not, I don't know
Just by yourself, no problem
No okay, alright it moves. It moves
It's way heavier on this side, eh?
It's just way heavier
Chain around it
Probably a bit higher up
pass through the winch
and then keept it tight
then this trailer actually tips
we might want to call Stan over just to double check we know how the tipping feature works
I'm gonna call Stan and see if he wants to come over
That'd be good
So the other kinda issue with the pump cart
the stiles skid, they won't fit in the middle
Hang on. Hang on. Hang on
This looks really tippy and this chain is not tight
That concerns me
Woo!
So, So we did come up a little bit
So, according to the instruction manual, the machine was built in 1990
Last time it was used
probably over 5 years, I wanna say
I don't want any of the fans giving their hopes up
if we get this thing running
it's not gonna happen overnight
it could be weeks or even months from now
because we have quite a few issues
that we have to solve
first of all
it didn't even come with cables to connect the robot to the controller
and those are pretty expensive so we're not sure if we wanna buy those right away
So yeah, we're gonna try and locally source and use cables for it
The next major issue we have is this is a 480 Volt, 3 phase machine
We do not have 480 Volts, 3 phase here, we don't even have 480 Volts
But, because it's a robot arm there's a chance we might be able to cheat
and use a transformer to take 240 to 480 and feed that in on one phase
it depends if this had many safety systems in place
if not we're gonna have to get a 3 phase converter or build our own
So, there's a whole bunch of projects that have to go on
before we can even test this to see if it works
But, we're gonna do our best, and, worst case
I am quite happy to have paid 500 dollars for something to put on my lawn
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