Making An Air-Powered Circular Saw With LEGO
Although developing a table saw out of LEGO is most likely not the very first thing that enters your mind when you take a look at those vibrant little bits of plastic, [Jamie] has actually been on a little bit of a look for more applications of his LEGO-based air-powered motors. Naturally this caused the concept of doing something helpful with it, like making a table saw you can actually use for real wood.
Starting off with a standard model utilizing just routine LEGO pieces to get the system determined, [Jamie] then constructs this up into stated air-powered table saw including a real metal blade. Suffice it to state that this isn’t something that you desire your kids to do with their LEGO while not being watched.
The star of the program is naturally the air-powered turbine that spins the blade. This is something that [Jamie] has actually been working on for a while, going through a variety of models to determine a 3D printed geometry for the turbine blade that assists to transform as much of the high-pressure air into rotation.
Along the method it was likewise found that 3D printing saw blades is quite hard, most likely due to the absence of a sharp edge. This is absolutely a location where it’s difficult to beat a genuine table saw blade, with the included caution that anything that’s proficient at cutting up boards of wood and sausages will simply as delighted piece through reckless primate fingers.
In regards to security functions, the air supply is cut instantly with a sort of dead-man switch that needs you to keep one hand on it while utilizing the last table saw style. There likewise an auto-feeding system included that attempts to direct the board into the saw, however this ended up being picky. Suffice it to state that an air compressor and a handful of non-LEGO-approved elements developed a quite persuading table saw.
