Alright guys we got a long week ahead of us. We've got a lot of things to manufacture,
we've got four parts, four people, we've got to break up into teams.
You guys ready? Let's do it.
On the last episode of the Aliens Power Loader series we signed a partnership with
Caterpillar and took a trip down to battlefield equipment rentals to pick up our CAT 239D.
This compact track loader checked all of our boxes for the ideal drive system for the Power Loader.
We tore off the cab, the lift arms, and a whole bunch of wires, and are now
left with this and of course we already have this.
Now we just need to put the two together.
I've spent the last few weeks working on the design and it consists of four major components.
The base plate, the legs, the chest, and the roll cage.
We all know Rome wasn't built in a day and I'm pretty sure one guy didn't do it by himself,
with that said I'm at a point where I could use some fresh eyes on this design.
These days it seems that most of my time is taking up working on this Power Loader.
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Alright well I just wanted to thank you for taking
some time out of your day to come join me for this design review.
I just needed some fresh eyes on the design and hopefully you can give
me some feedback so we can make this Power Loader as awesome as possible.
I've broken up the design into four individual pieces. We've got the base
which is actually the mounting plate that's going to go onto
the Caterpillar to actually uh hold and spread the weight of the legs.
Then we've got the legs which is basically going to be from the knee up.
So what's actually interesting is when you scale the real Power Loader it's a one-to-one scale
and where Ripley actually has her feet planted where it is roughly around uh around the knees.
So it'll actually sit right about there is where your feet are going to be
and then the base is actually four inch box tube.
The height and everything of the of this entire
design will be exactly the same as in the real movie.
These two legs, the bushings will be able to hold about 120,000 pounds
in terms of straight downward compression.
So that should be way more than what we need.
Then on top of that there is the chest.
So the chest actually builds up on top of the h-frame that currently holds the two arms.
As it builds forward it's all using box tube so it's really really simple to actually construct.
Then there's some sheet metal around it to give it the look.
Then the bottom is basically four half inch plates that actually have a single
tube that goes all the way through the bushings to allow it to join to the bottom of the legs.
Final part is the cage.
The cage is just made out of some one and a quarter inch round tube.
How hard would it be to have it hydraulic or pneumatic so you press a button.
We have the whole hydraulic system on there so just add an extra valve
it shouldn't be that difficult.
The the bigger thing is like if it's also closing hydraulically you don't want to like get pinched.
I like the sound of a gas strut over a hydraulic.
Yeah, I think when we called the gastro it's cheaper, it's easier.
If we want to change it hydraulic at some point to have it like we can.
Trying to figure out how the gas strut is going to perform at all the different
angles and how much lifting weight you need and stuff like that and trying to pick that.
Sounds complicated.
Designing a Power Loader easy, designing some struts to open up a hatch
I don't even want to try!
So the final design will look somewhere or something like this.
What does that say on his chest?
Okay great, so if you guys don't have any more concerns I guess I'll start exporting this
over the weekend and then hopefully for Monday morning we'll be ready to start manufacturing.
Awesome.
I'm sure the commenters will leave a lot of feedback for you.
Yes after it's done being built.
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Alright guys we've got a long week ahead of us we've got a lot of things to manufacture.
We've got four parts, four people, we've got to break up into teams.
Tyler you're on plasma cutting. Dave and Chris
you guys are on the chest and I'm gonna start with welding.
Hopefully by the end of the week if we all work
hard we're gonna be able to get a full Power Loader completed.
You guys ready?
Let's do it.
That's like a quarter of a leg. Yeah.
Alright
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This is part of the roll cage.
So this is going to go over top and we need to assemble this to get the correct
sizing for this and this is going to be the chest which this attaches to.
Once we have that we can put it in the other forklift tubes and once
the forklift tubes are in we can start assembling the chest pieces.
Which are going to be a lot of work.
It seems like there's an order to this.
Oh yeah everything is like a puzzle.
We just finished this piece, and so now we're waiting for that piece that Tyler's grinding.
Then the boxes go right through there.
That's the first phase of the chest piece.
So the actual driver is going to sit right about there.
So because these have to hold the entire upper body,
these have to be stronger than what the upper body can hold because they got to
hold whatever the other body's holding plus the upper body .
So they end up becoming heavier and heavier and therefore the Caterpillar
is so important because if we were to design something like the legs
or even our own treads there'd just be so much steel. We don't have the equipment to move it.
I'm just glad that we got that machine and we don't have to design anything from scratch.
Just a quick sanity check.
Don't you just love when things come together.
Good.
This is 1200 pounds of steel.
I have no clue how we're going to move this.
Darryl how are we doing the outro shot?
You said you wanted that over there? I have an idea.
That was a super productive week.
It went so well! We got a ton of work done
and I'm pleased to say that after two full years of working on the Power Loader
we finally have all the pieces required to put it together in the next episode.
We've got our chest, we've got our legs, we've got our base plate, we've got all the arms,
the roll cage, we've got the entire hydraulic circulatory system, we've got all the wiring and
next week we're going to put it all together and we should have a working standing Power Loader.
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