Backhoe Contribution – Blanchsb – Exterior Loader Arms and Interior Chair

[Ingmar Franz]

I can’t tear my eyes away from this artwork 👀👀👀!!!

[Adrian Bellworthy]

This deserves an exploded view all it’s own, excellent @blanchsb 

[Shawn Blanch]

Love the kind motivational words. It adds fuel to the fire. Thanks all.

More to come on the purple monstrosity. Rotation Latch/Lever (pink) and Fwd-Rev Slider Latch/Lever (teal and orange pieces) are complete now. The handles will push against these to allow the seat to rotate or slide forward.
Getting close to creating and attaching the hand levers in the front of the seat. They go with the sliding assembly.

[Kent Trammell]

Dude…@blanchsb. This is fantastic, meticulous work. You should totally rig this to scratch that itch you’ve talked about!

[Ingmar Franz]

And always when I think that this can’t be topped, @blanchsb, you prove the opposite 👍👍👍!!!

[Shawn Blanch]

I hope I can make to the finish line it in time for the stream. So many people with high hopes! I feel like I’m on an episode of Sci Fi Blitz lol.

I just got some bad news and some good news from the Costco Concierge service:

Lonestar Lenovo was returned unrepaired. The repair parts got misplaced in shipping and management decided to give me a full refund. So, I went computer shopping today and decided to go for an upgrade and double down my Kaballa Dolla (Killer Bunnies reference) haha.

Decided to buy one with an NVIDIA RTX 2070 Super Max-Q to hopefully make use of some of the new blender features. (I want a laptop so I can travel and still model on work or vacay). This was the pick of the litter on Costco.com with NVIDIA graphics.

Here’s what I paid top dollar for. It was a little pricey but I think it will be worth it. And of course I got the extended warrantee. I only paid half that price since Lonestar Lenovo was refunded in full. Now I gotta pay myself back until January (my own personal budget goals haha). Better to take a loan from myself than from a bank.

I’ll have more modeling updates tomorrow hopefully, and luck willing my Micro LoneStar Intl. will be here to carry me to the finish line!

Rest In Peace Lonestar Lenovo. You brought me this far…….

[Adrian Bellworthy]

I agree with the @theluthier , you should definitely rig this.

Nice purchase, I’m sure it will get plenty of use and pay for itself in no time.

[Kent Trammell]

That lappy looks like a hoss! You should have no problems with your Blender projects for a while 👌

Now…to fend off my jealousy..I don’t need a new laptop. I DON’T NEED A NEW LAPTOP

[Ingmar Franz]

I don’t need a new laptop, too. I DON’T NEED A NEW LAPTOP, TOO 😉!

@blanchsb I hope that you’re aware of the fact that you raise high expectations with your new lappy* 😉! Good choice 👍!

* Thank you, @theluthier, for this new expression!

PS: Did I already mention, that I don’t need a new laptop?!

PS2: Did I already mention, that my laptop has a backlit keyboard?!

[Shawn Blanch]

If I knew how the scissor lift truly worked I would be more excited to rig it haha. Honestly I have no idea how the interaction between a few of the critical scissor supporting parts works.

Lol @theluthier that’s why it was good/bad news. I hate shopping for PC’s because I keep talking myself up higher and higher in price haha. The truth is my last PC was great, just had a couple of problems. I told myself I wanted the RTX so I could test out the viewport denoising. It’s still only 8GB Graphics so it’s not like Linux Luke, but I am totally okay with that.

So far my workflow has been held up nicely with what I had. I just wanted to take advantage of my refund and take an opportunity to improve the specs to what I felt was missing. I’m a little nervous going with MSI because it won’t have the numbpad on the keyboard BUT I rarely use the laptop keyboard at my home office and have a nice mouse and keyboard setup with my monitors so it’s really only going to bother me when I am traveling………a worthy sacrifice because it is the only model laptop with the specs I wanted that also had Thunderbolt 3. I realized how nice these docking stations are and wanted to upgrade that feature as well. Ain’t no better time to upgrade than when a refund comes in hand.

My PC has shipped and I’m excited to say it should hopefully be here late tomorrow, maybe Thursday.
Guesses on what is getting installed first?

I need to give it a name so I’ll be thinking on that over the next day while I wait.

[Shawn Blanch]

Got the sliding support started. Hopefully will finish it tomorrow and add the handles……

[Shawn Blanch]

Today I was able to complete the sliding support and start a little on the handles. Still more to go but I’m getting pretty excited for the results.

Did some more work to the rump side to flatten out the bottom. The assembly looks more like this when unhiding the cushions:

[Shawn Blanch]

Was able to make the second slider but this one may just stay as a rough draft without the details…….will see. 

You may be asking why there are two seat sliders (the lower blue/purple combo and the upper gray combo) and I admit I did too, but I have the answer.

The lower one is to position the whole seat forward or aft. The upper one is only for the Rump/Back adjustment. Kinda funny I didn’t put that together in my head until just now but it makes sense.

We wanna pamper our driver for this DOG while he eats his Doritos. Only a double sliding seat will do.

[Shawn Blanch]

Funny thing is that front handle on the rump cushion is actually a padding adjustor. The sliding adjustor for the rump cushion is on the side. I’ll make it next.

Just basic block out for each of the handles for now. I want to get the major supporting seat cushion shapes donezo first then they will probably be the finishing touches to the assembly.

[Shawn Blanch]

I worked finer details on the top two handles. for the rump-side cushion. The lower two handles still need more work.
Then I need to work the arm-rests and then the back cushion support. Then I will probably be outta time.

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