First Fabrication of Scissor Lift Business Card Design
November 21, 2017
There are some problems with the pivots and with the platform of the scissor lift staying level. I think this can be fixed by tightening the track width to better constrain the platform. I think that the pivots will have to be changed into pin joints to prevent the 2-force member from pulling out of the scokets. I had considered this in the design stage but favored the planar joints I used to keep part count and assembly simplified. This seems like it wont’ work so pinned connections will be tried next.
The name scheme, that I call “the titulus” worked very well. Actually, all of the other fits went very nicely. I have been spoiled by the prior cards working immediately in the alpha prototypes. I guess this is a lesson in humility as much as in design!