{"id":172,"date":"2010-03-13T13:16:13","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T18:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/?p=172"},"modified":"2010-03-13T13:16:13","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T18:16:13","slug":"added-spacer-for-carrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/added-spacer-for-carrier\/","title":{"rendered":"Added spacer for carrier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After thinking about it for a while, I realized the force to move the cable carrier would be much lower if I added a spacer to the cart to increase the bend radius of the cable carrier.\u00a0 With Bill&#8217;s help, I made a 1 1\/2&#8243; spacer from a piece of extruded aluminum.\u00a0 I think the piece was a 1 1\/2&#8243; square cross section of 80\/20 brand extruded aluminum framing material.\u00a0 This stuff is very light and very strong.\u00a0 We cut a 1 3\/4&#8243; inch piece of it, then drilled two holes 1 1\/4&#8243; apart for the existing bolts to pass through.\u00a0 I added it between the T bar and the cross bar on the cart.\u00a0 I had to remove the old cable ties at the ends of the cable carrier.\u00a0 I also had to add a couple of sections to the cable carrier, which was a nuisance because I had to remove the cable connector at the end of my encoder cable (again!) so it would fit through the cable carrier.\u00a0 The finished cart is shown below.\u00a0 You can see the spacer directly behind the red encoder.\u00a0 With the larger bend radius, the cable carrier moves very smoothly and the cart has no noticeable resistance due to the cable carrier anywhere along the track.\u00a0 I believe this problem is solved!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_173\" style=\"width: 420px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Carrier-with-Spacer.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-173\" class=\"size-full wp-image-173\" title=\"Cable Carrier with Spacer\" src=\"http:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Carrier-with-Spacer.JPG\" alt=\"Cable Carrier with Spacer\" width=\"410\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Carrier-with-Spacer.JPG 410w, https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Carrier-with-Spacer-150x126.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Carrier-with-Spacer-300x253.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-173\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cable Carrier with Spacer<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After thinking about it for a while, I realized the force to move the cable carrier would be much lower if I added a spacer to the cart to increase the bend radius of the cable carrier.\u00a0 With Bill&#8217;s help, I made a 1 1\/2&#8243; spacer from a piece of extruded aluminum.\u00a0 I think the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175,"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ammonsengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}