Lowrider Varations

I was thinking about this months ago, to the point of beginning to trawl the forums for data, and SMRRF has reminded me of it and now I want to throw it out there and see what develops.

The Lowrider has a huge amount of variance even in the yellow brick road: spindle choice, work area, strut material, tube size/thickness. And the reality is even more variable: filament choice, Vmot, 3D printed strut plates…

We say things like “a narrower beam is stiffer”. But how much does that end up mattering, real world? Where does the performance drop off so that it doesn’t really perform in wood? What about foam?
Someone asked me today if 32mm tube is better than 30mm. Bigger diameter, more rigidity, right? But also more mass. The answer is I don’t know. And I don’t think we know?

I suspect the data is mostly already here on the forums that we could do a bit of analysis to see the effect of some of these variables, and I’m super interested particularly in beam width and it’s effect :thinking:
I also expect that a lot of this has been gamed out already in beta tests and version revisions and I just don’t know about it :stuck_out_tongue:

the rack and pinion one is already a thing and makerjim made one. Ask him about it.

Sorry, you want a different thread. :stuck_out_tongue: I have too many trains of thought… it’s like the London Underground in here!

But on the subject. I know about and love the the mostly printed rack and pinion machine, only haven’t built one yet because I can’t get 3/4” EMT or equivalent, the idea is specifically taking an otherwise stock LR and using rack and pinion for the Y axis

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