jpmillermatic
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Im only going to rotate the plow after it is raised and I have backed away from the snow pile. I cannot angle the plow while pushing. No hydraulics here!....You might find it does when it's got a heap of snow ahead of it?
As I work through this I begin to see what will work best and what wont. Partially because of the complete collection of odd ball bits and pieces I have squirreled away (what I can get away with using for free, of course) and production designs that work perfectly well but cost money....cant have the latter, sooooo......
The T handle went up on the dashboard. works great there. Done! the cable is almost the perfect size (somehow) and will work well. the cable is a Bowden type, come to find out and they use special clamps and cable ends commonly found on bicycles and lawn care equipment.
I must have some of those somewhere........
Found them: take one cable end, adapt some kind of aluminum nuts and clamps from old telephone or cable or electrical connections (dont really know for sure) by drilling a hole through the end of the captive nut for the cable to run through and you have these things
anybody know what these were used for?
drill a hole through the plow lifting bracket and you get this;
Ends up I was not getting enough travel for the release arm from this height. (release arm would have been 5" or 12.5cm tall if I left it here. The problem was that I was maxing out the T-handle's travel limit.) some head scratching found that I would get more travel if I attached the cable down low on the arm....and shortened the arm. so a 3" or 7.6 cm arm is appearing to work better and need less travel to release the plow's 3 notches. With a 12.5cm arm, I would have needed all of the 6.5cm of travel the T handle had to offer. at the 7.6cm arm length, I would only need about 1.5" or 4cm of travel to release the plow. ( with a .875" or 2.3cm thick arm.)
with me so far...good, cause now Im lost!
Anywhoo....
In this photo you can see the bracket I made to secure the cable casing (no clamp there yet) and the two utility trailer leaf spring hangers Im going to use for the release arm. Actually, they are a nearly perfect size for this. The holes can be used too. the bottom one for the pivot bolt and the top one for the return spring and the cable end. Im not sure if I chose the hangers for this purpose, or designed this part of the system around these hangers....either way, I guess.
small progress, but progress just the same.
thanks for lookin
JP