Close

Modified Claw Fingers/Fingertips

A project log for Anatomy of a Claw

Breakdown of the Claw Mechanism

willbadenwillbaden 01/04/2015 at 02:000 Comments

To clean up the look of the claw machine, the three fingers that reach down were milled at an angle. Here is how they looked prior to machining:

With them machined and belt sanded:

New fingertip extensions were made to allow the claw machine to pick up smaller apple juice and orange juice cans. They are roughly 2.05 inches in diameter (5.5 FL OZ can) as opposed to the 2.25 that the (7.5 FL OZ) narrow pop cans were. Along with this the finger tip bar was also pushed down to the bottom of the angle. Here is a comparison of the two different angle extension side by side:

The holes were extended out a hundred thou (.1 inch) from the edge of the angle.

Discussions