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Tire building machine

Tire building machine (2nd version)

	At the end of 2006: Started with the first version of my tire building machine BBM-V1. Car tires are made by assembling sheets of rubber on drums. At the left hand side of the machine, the outside of the tire is made. On the right-hand side the inside (the carcass) is made and next combined with the outside package.
	The drum for building the outside of a tire is at the left hand side: the breaker & tread drum.
	The ring brings the breaker & tread package from the left hand drum to the carcass building drum.

May 27 2006 club meeting in Ugchelen (near Apeldoorn) Together with Jay I represented the editorial staff with some models, as published in the newsletter of the fischertechnikclub Nederland.
Newsletter models In the forefront a model of Mr van Haaren.	The helicopter of Paul Bataille Jay assists at the meeting.	Two arcofast robots. Model of Mr Pettera.
Professor Artur Fischer examines the newsletter. Jay and Tyrone got a "Pfennig" for their good job !	Laurenz Wohlfarth Manager sales and marketing.	Arcofast robot , controlled by PC with my PLC simulation program.
Jay and Tyrone.	More pictures at the website of the: fischertechnikclub Nederland and the fischertechnik-Community. TV Gelderland teletext message

May 2006: Bought via eBay.de .
Fischertechnik shop-window model Oldtimer as shown. A very old model. Obviously not complete. Dusty.

Dekomodell Oldtimer

FT Walker

May 2006:
An interesting model found on the internet at the University of Twente . It was a fischertechnik model of a passive walker on two legs.

I built my interpretation in a few minutes and it was based on a pendulum of a clock. For now the model is named I'm falling, but it is certainly tempting for more experiments !

2kg

Kettensatz

Zahnstangen

March 2006: My last acquisitions from eBay.nl I am very happy especially with 2 kg "Kindergarten" from end of seventies.

Tire transport

Tire transport system

September 2004: The transport system
Model and building design published in the newsletter of the fischertechnikclub Nederland.
You can see two standard modules and on the left hand and right hand side a turn table module. Together they are a transport system for fischertechnik car tires.

Kid's Corner

Newsletter

March 2004: Kid's Corner model for the newsletter of the fischertechnikclub Nederland.
Extreme sports are totally hot! On the channel 'Nickelodeon' you can see Otto Rocket racing downhill on his mountainboard, and he is performing great stunts in the half-pipe! Now you can build your own skatetrack and mountainboard with fischertechnik.

Tire transport

February 2004: The tire transport module
Model and building design published in the newsletter of the fischertechnikclub Nederland.
I did use as few parts as possible and as few different parts as possible, so that I make could a large number of these modules and later I could add on other devices easily.

Tire transport

FT Bionicle

FT Bionicle
Model is based on the Kid's Corner model "Efty" (FT) by Johan Lankheet, published in the fourth edition of 2003 in the newsletter of the fischertechnikclub Nederland.

Efty van Johan Lankheet

Pressure switch

March 2002:
Detail picture of my air pressure switch.

If the pressure at the bottom side of the piston becomes too high, the piston rod goes up, against the force of the spring. The mini-switch is reached and it disconnects the compressor motor.

Pressure switch

Pressure switch
Published in 2002 in the third edition of the newsletter of the fischertechnikclub Nederland.
On the website of Markus P�tter you can find an alternative design.

Pneumatic gripper

Pneumatic gripper with compressor

Gripper, controlled by PC

Gripper, controlled by PC

From the newsletter of the fischertechnikclub Nederland:
Dalfsen 2002: The models of Dave Gabeler were all production robots. One was a pneumatic gripper, with compressorunit with air pressure switch. The other was a robot with electrical gripper, executed in grey building blocks and controlled by a PLC simulation program running on a DOS PC.

Truck with trailer

2002: Truck with trailer

Truck with trailer

On the right hand side: Pictures from 1999 The welding robot is a model from the time of the Commodore, Apple, Atari and the IBM PC, XT and AT, end of the eighties.	Original model of the welding robot Bought on a 'Sonderverkauf' in Wuppertal-Vohwinkel	Original model and re-built version
Click here to see my building description of the welding robot. I made these sketches in 1998 with Drawperfect! Convert WPG illustrations to JPG-format.

Gripper

fischertechnik demonstration model

On the left hand side: Gripper, bought on a 'Sonderverkauf' in Wuppertal-Vohwinkel.

This model contains three limit-switches. The motor is switched off by two of them, when the gripper reaches its end position. The third switch is activated when an object is caught in the gripper. The right jaw is kept in place by a small feather, but when the jaw gets resistance, it switches the mini-switch by a cam.

Note: This model does contain a number machined (sawn-off) building blocks and the cam has been glued !

Crane

1999: Crane, in 'old grey'

HAFENKR�NE

NEU
fischertechnik HAFENKR�NE - "Achtung in Schwenkbereich"

Fire engine

Remote controlled car

Remote controlled car

Meeting in 's-Hertogenbosch (05.09.98) Theme: car engineering
Dave Gabeler (also) had a car, remote controlled by cable. This model could be controlled that by the youngsters.
Read the whole report on the website of the fischertechnikclub Nederland Clubdagen, verslagen

Hanging robot

1998: Hanging robot

Open day in Moers (25.10.97)
Exhibition in Moers (report from Frans Leurs)
Dave Gabeler brought his hanging robot, under construction. Read the whole report in the newsletter (or on the website) of the fischertechnikclub Nederland, See clubdagen, verslagen

On that day Johan Lankheet and I got in the car at 6 o'clock in the morning, first to drive to Wuppertal for a 'Sonderverkauf'. We arrived way too early, but because of the cold, we could enter the store early and we made a very good deal ...

My PLC simulation program

My PLC simulation program

HCC meeting in Zevenaar

HCC meeting in Zevenaar

Cees Nobel and me

Cees Nobel and me

May 1996: Invited by Cees Nobel to join him on a meeting of the HCC division Arnhem in Zevenaar. I could show my gripper. It was controlled by my PLC simulation program . I wrote this program in TurboPascal, to simulate machine controls on a PC.

Gripper with PC controls

The gripper with PC controls

Gripper

The scissors-acting gripper

Gripper

Drawing of the mechanism

1995: The scissors-acting gripper mechanism
This robot is capable of movement in two directions, rotation and upwards/downwards. The most special device is the gripper mechanism. It is based on a scissor acting construction. The scissors were driven indirect by a worm wheel. However a set feathers wss placed inbetween the drive and the scissors. If an object was clamped, the feathers were pressed in and a mini-switch was hit. This design was at the end of '95 my first contribution to the newsletter of the fischertechnikclub Nederland.

May 1994: Fischertechnikclub tour 94
Impression of the trip to the Fischerwerke.

Meeting

Meeting in 1994
This was the first model, controlled by my PLC simulation program . I wrote this program in TurboPascal, to simulate machine controls on a PC.

Movable conveyor

Model of a movable conveyor

1992: Tricycle, made by my wife Eefje
My collection of fischertechnik, September 1992	Crane One of the oldest pictures I have.

Arnhem, at the end of the sixties
	I can remember, my brother Dennis got the first box of fischertechnik. It was the box fischertechnik 200! That same day, I was about 4 or 5 years old, I got the box fischertechnik 50. Unlike the extensive box 200, this was a cardboard box with actually only one model: the tractor.

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