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brucedownunder2
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Joined: 14/09/2005
Location: Australia
Posts: 1548

Posted: 10:15pm 11 Sep 2006

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Hey Guys... I've been thinking of a battery drill clutch to tension a threaded rod on my disc brake fitting. Any one every tried this ? Would like it to tension and reverse tension on the threaded rod ,via a model airplane radio control servo-what u's think . Could have a small sla up there to provide power @ ,say, 12 volts . Battery drills are a dime a dozen these days. Have 2 of them with stuffed batteries, not worth replacing , but the mechanics are perfect .
At present my brake is activated via a nylon fishing line down the tower (I mean a real fishing line ,like we use for deep sea fishing)
Crazy Bruce

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dwyer
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Joined: 19/09/2005
Location: Australia
Posts: 574

Posted: 12:12am 12 Sep 2006

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Hi Brucedownunder
why not give ago as l do like your idea and also about batteris why not use small gel batteries and long electical cable to run the drill like l do at my workshop

dwyer the bushman

brucedownunder2
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Posted: 09:23pm 12 Sep 2006

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Hi Dwyer. Yep, the drill clutch idea is good , but I thought some one might have an electrical Cct or device that senses the current . The cable idea is the easy way -just 200 Mtrs of figure 8 and an on/off switch to activate the pull rod.
prob go this way .
Bruce

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