bentley1930
Hot Rolled
- Joined
- Mar 30, 2015
- Location
- norway oslo
Hi All,
I imagine that this thread might ruffle a few feathers among the Deckel originality police!
What is a riser? It`s just a large lump of cast iron with a some gears in it, but rather rare, which gives it a value that`s not commensurate with the simple function that it performs. After all it`s just a glorified spacer to make up for the lack of height in the Z axis!
I suddenly got a bee in my bonnet That I would take on the project of creating the spacer using my FP! (once it`s up and running). As we say in the UK "there`s more than one way to skin a cat" and the same goes for the riser.
Do we need a casting? Not really, but a pattern this simple could be made by an amateur from hard foam and a casting obtained. or we could fabricate the riser body from steel, or make a sandwich from steel aluminium and steel, or machine it out of a sandwich of high tensile aluminium etc.etc.
I will start to plan this out but need some help with the dimensions of the FP1 riser, photographs etc. So that I can begin this interesting task which should be of interest to most FP1 owners.
Please help.
Alan
I imagine that this thread might ruffle a few feathers among the Deckel originality police!
What is a riser? It`s just a large lump of cast iron with a some gears in it, but rather rare, which gives it a value that`s not commensurate with the simple function that it performs. After all it`s just a glorified spacer to make up for the lack of height in the Z axis!
I suddenly got a bee in my bonnet That I would take on the project of creating the spacer using my FP! (once it`s up and running). As we say in the UK "there`s more than one way to skin a cat" and the same goes for the riser.
Do we need a casting? Not really, but a pattern this simple could be made by an amateur from hard foam and a casting obtained. or we could fabricate the riser body from steel, or make a sandwich from steel aluminium and steel, or machine it out of a sandwich of high tensile aluminium etc.etc.
I will start to plan this out but need some help with the dimensions of the FP1 riser, photographs etc. So that I can begin this interesting task which should be of interest to most FP1 owners.
Please help.
Alan