Using the ship's rotating portal concept to make a lens that flings droplets off. Unlike existing rotary viewports, this novel integral-bearing design has no central hub to obscure the image. Thanks for your help making more VJOs. Early access for Patrons. http://www.Patreon.com/AvE
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By AvvE

15 thoughts on “No drip camera lens”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars ray phillips says:

    make the hole in the side bigger so you can drop in more balls !

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars cjr1881 says:

    Has this guy ever worked in his life?

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars John S says:

    Put lenses in actual bearing

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Mike Na says:

    Sorry for being late to the game, but I get the idea of concept, but what if not use the gap to try to balance/seat the balls into the gap, make the air inlet borehole large enough to insert the balls into the track groove? once they are inside the track that can be made to a tighter tolerance, they cant escape.

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Camillo Steuss says:

    In regards to this, you should drill above the bore, have a tangential inlet that interacts with the groove for the balls, make a nozzle that will screw in there precisely into location by starting the threads in timing, now you can put the pieces of plastic into the arrangement(also, modify the inner part to have a specific grove for each ball that will keep the ball in place and interaction with the outer groove), with no balls, on a flat surface, feed the balls in through the air inlet, allowing a much better fit for the races and allowing you to make air exhaust on one side rather than the other by more precise machining and balancing… That said, once you shove the balls in and they drop with your help into the race, you screw in the nozzle that is timed so that when it bottoms out, it allows for air to be forced into the race, using balls themselves as a blade as they are each seated into their own little spot on the race of the inner piece and can ride freely in the outer race and spin in place to dissipate some of the initial air pressure… The inlet with the nozzle threaded in also serves as a good place for a “permanent“ air fitting… It would take more time machining, but the end result should be a near professional product… That said, the same arrangement with the tangential inlet could be used to wormdrive against the balls, as the balls are again, seated in their own little recesses and unless they would encounter a piece of something hard, there would be no damage form being worm driven rather than air driven… But a worm drive in my opinion is a poor idea.. You would not rely on a nozzle then, and the timing and the ball count would have to be compatible with the worm, but still, its technically a bad idea from where im sitting… Maybe i make one or both and film it… who knows…

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars ramesh anand says:

    Will an oliophobic coating on the plexiglass help?

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars lee batt says:

    Ave just has to deal with a clapped out bridgeport. Ive gotta deal with a clapped out brain.

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Neeboopsh says:

    i have that same gopro knockoff but the outer lens "glass" is probably polycarb. got scratched to fuck right away. acrylic is weaker but doesnt scratch as easily

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Iggy89 says:

    I spy with my little eye … a feyenoord flag 😀

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Michael Riehl says:

    I'm 35 yrs machinist/builder. All manual machines. Horizon mill, Devlieg and Lucas jig mill. Surface grinders. Always had to self fig to make what "DREAMINEERS" drew.
    (Nothin but dreams between their ears.)
    Brings back memories….
    Also not much safety rules back then.

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Xander Safrunek says:

    that there is the zero slip condition

  12. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Ramix Nudles says:

    No, wait honey, it's snot whatcha think. I was just cleaning my dog's paw.
    No, really.That's what it's for.
    Well, no, we don't. But one day, we might get one.

  13. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Jan Sevdal says:

    smaller groves( just enofe to hold the bearings) and feed the balls threw the went instead

  14. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars eTanium says:

    Love the Rick & Morty references! Always a laugh around here, AvE!

  15. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Hiro Protagonist says:

    Isn't this some top secret inventing that could be stolen, I'm not going to tell anyone about it but a few of the other people on here seem a little shady.

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