Manual Slicer and Grinder

Okay, today am going to present you with a mini project I did out of frustration of  not wanting to part away with my money for something I feel should be bought at lower cost. I thought of getting a mini slicer for my house and I finally got one in a nearby shop at a junction close to my house. The shop owner gave me a price I felt is on the high side, and out of frustration I decided to reverse engineered the manual piece and make available the blue prints and procedure of producing one for free.Away from the preambles, lemme say the dimension of this design was a reverse engineered one within limit of tolerance

 

Above was a final rendered image of the slicer with was done with rendering engine call Vray 1.5 in 3Dmax 2010, with a single sunlight. The final gather of the primary bounce was set at 0.3 and preset to irradiance map. The secondary bounce was switched off to allow reasonable rendering time, since am using a 4Gig ram HP laptop. The built in of the irradiance map was fixed at “high” The material was mainly plastic with exception of the mechanical parts, which  provides the force necessary to achieve the cutting and slicing action.

 

Here is the final model of the slicer with was achieved with the aid of Rhinoceros CAD software. The efficiency of the machine can only be determined after the first prototype is manufactured, though with the aid of rhinoworks plug in, the geometrical part of flight could be easily determined. The model was in surface mode to allow for easy production of the prototype. The only exception in solid are the metallic parts. And as usual, the surface edge was analyzed to check for “naked” or “bad” egdes.

 

Here are two section with their respective dimensions, which should serve as shop drawing, though the .3dm or.dxf or .dwg will be made available on request for full access to other dimensions.

 This is a simplified component assembly, away from the usual bulk detailed part analysis. Heck, we should be very snappy in presenting out models or find a way of making improvements in presenting engineering feet, away from the traditional methods of making a simplified design complex.

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The final diagram of the part, for more understanding and proper referencing