Sollmaker Sawppy #3 – manufacture of the metal parts

sawing grooves in a shaft

In this post I show you how I manufacture the parts for the Sawppy. To build an original Sawppy Rover by Roger Cheng we need 15x15mm construction profiles made of aluminum. In addition, we will be making axles out of 8mm shafts for the bearings. Roger uses stainless steel shafts,…

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Sollmaker Sawppy #2 – Getting components

sawppy assemly parts

The mechanical structure of Roger Cheng’s Sawppy Rover essentially consists of aluminum profiles that are connected with parts made of plastic. The advantage of this construction is that the aluminum profiles achieve a very high stiffness of the overall structure. In addition, the aluminum profiles are relatively cheap and not…

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