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[Bob Steele]

Originally Posted by M. Krass

Do y'all have a way of rolling tubing to make the claw? We're trying to figure out a way of doing something similar ourselves.

The machine looks good. There're some interesting things happening there with the 18" stroke, 1.5" bore piston and the peculiarly placed van door motor.

We do have a way to roll tubing but we won't be using rolled tubing.
We made up layups to make the curved components from either carbon fiber or fiberglass... looking at the merits and weights of each right now.

It is a lift... a reclining lift...... two under jaws (the mandibles) and a upper "maxilla"
Three points of contact with the lower jaws articulated to close on the ball. The "maxilla" is also pneumatically operated and works in conjunction with the lower mandibles. There is also a tongue...

Jaws and maxilla are all pneumatically operated...hopefully automated closing based on input from a sonar sensor..

Taigene motor controls the cable system for the lift...

I will post a side view later...

Madison, we can roll tubing but it takes soft aluminum... it would probably have to be heat treated...we have a mock up in 3/4 X 1/8 wall that we are testing... let me know if we can help...