Ah yea some good points. If what you have going has worked for others then it certainly makes sense to probably stay with that design.Beaker wrote:Ray-
The top opening you described is exactly my plan, when I have the tools/materials again. (Christmas break! lol)
The radial spring arrangement was definitely something I considered, but I wasn't able to put it together in my head. I have a few more ideas how to make that happen now! It might be something to switch to, actually, it just requires a larger base and case box. Another difficulty with using that many springs is making sure they aren't brushing up against each other at any point. Other than that, the only other reason was that I'm not the first person to have used this basic design, and it has worked for others in the past. I'll have to look into that though, it's certainly feasible.
Just a thing to keep in mind for planning if you haven't already... No spring should ever compress to its relaxed state. It'll register as a 'click' in the movement and you'll lose the linear tension feel. I have all of these springs at about 175% extension and they can't possibly ever contract entirely.
Good point about the spring tension, yeah they'd have to always have tension, wish I had the materials to play around with something like you have in order get a better idea of how it would feel/how the spring tension would act.
I'm excited to see a prototype of yours!