From an undated book printed in Spain. Probably from the 1950s. The caption translates as “antenna lightning rod”. I’m thinking I need to model an electrical arc spanning the rods and then figure out how to render it in Vray.
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Now that should be interesting.
I hope so.
First draft of a spark. Straight out of SketchUp. I bet there’s a better way. Probably ought to add wires to the terminals on the sides, too.
antenna with spark
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Compressed Air Engine with CU
Another funny little engine. this one is designed to run on compressed air. Like usual I need to add screws.
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Put the engine aside for a bit. This is a WIP of a large pulley with a hook on the bottom. Obviously the hook needs to be modeled, yet.
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Finished enough. Time to feed the dog.
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very eye-pleasing presentation
Thank you sir.
Added proper bolts, nuts, and wire rope just for fun.
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Nice. My skeptical mind starts to think about what happens if you overload it. The hook is quite massive, and the rope too. But is it all fixed with a single quite small bolt?
Thank you.
I thought about it, too. It’s modeled to the dimensions that were provided. I guess a planned point of failure is good. Maybe it just requires the user to be smarter than the hook. 
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It would be interesting to know how you modeled the hook. Great work as always.
Thank you. I made a series of cross sections strung on a centerline curve drawn with FredoSpline. Then I joinded them with Loft along path from Curviloft. The top part of the hook down to the fillet was made with a profile and a circle for a path for Follow Me. After completing the skinning I deleted the centerline and the cross sections leaving the hook a solid component. Then the hole for the pin was “drilled” using Trim from BoolTools2.
FWIW, all of the components in the model are solid.
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Doodling this morning while waiting for my coffee to brew. Replaced the six-strand wire rope with proper 6x7 wire rope. It’s all geometry. Certainly not recommended for a larger model but for just this thing by itself, it’s OK.
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How long does it take your coffee to brew?
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Ten or twelve minutes for the whole pot. I probably need to clean the lime out of it, though.
I got about a third of the new wire rope modeled when I remembered the individual wires in the strand are laid opposite to the way the strands are laid so I started over.
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Nice, I got my coffee off 3D warehouse.
Those cable strands are really impressive.
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Thank you