Electric Organ Foot Pedal
Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2021 3:55 pm
Hey everyone. Long time anonymous reader, first time poster.
I inherited a very old Viscount RBX-850 electric organ. Vintage stuff - all wood and nails. Each and every one of its 8 long plastic foot pedals, most likely from material fatigue, have exploded into a thousand pieces, making the foot notes unplayable. I set off to try and recreate the pedal and 3D print it. I managed to salvage pieces and glue them together into an almost complete pedal, and started modeling it in FreeCAD. This whole process didn't take too long, and was actually pretty fun. Apparently the pedal was too long to print on my modest Ender Pro 3, and I didn't want to break it in two and glue it, so I needed a larger printer. Since I work at Stratasys, I was given permission to print the models on one of our large FDM printers. After several test prints and corrections, I got the prints and started assembling them. And after all this work and effort, some pedals don't play well because there's some problem with the contacts inside so I'm not finished yet.
I don't have a lot to say about the modeling process, as I'm not a professional (or even amateur) CAD modeler. I just sort of winged it, and it came out fine. Here's a link to the FreeCAD file: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AoQ9rCp56pzCgbha010 ... w?e=HvjW0g, you can have a look at my workflow for yourself.
Thanks for reading!
Interesting Stuff:
OS: Windows 10 Version 2009
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.19.24291 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: releases/FreeCAD-0-19
Hash: 7b5e18a0759de778b74d3a5c17eba9cb815035ac
Python version: 3.8.6+
Qt version: 5.15.2
Coin version: 4.0.1
OCC version: 7.5.0
Locale: English/United States (en_US)
I inherited a very old Viscount RBX-850 electric organ. Vintage stuff - all wood and nails. Each and every one of its 8 long plastic foot pedals, most likely from material fatigue, have exploded into a thousand pieces, making the foot notes unplayable. I set off to try and recreate the pedal and 3D print it. I managed to salvage pieces and glue them together into an almost complete pedal, and started modeling it in FreeCAD. This whole process didn't take too long, and was actually pretty fun. Apparently the pedal was too long to print on my modest Ender Pro 3, and I didn't want to break it in two and glue it, so I needed a larger printer. Since I work at Stratasys, I was given permission to print the models on one of our large FDM printers. After several test prints and corrections, I got the prints and started assembling them. And after all this work and effort, some pedals don't play well because there's some problem with the contacts inside so I'm not finished yet.
I don't have a lot to say about the modeling process, as I'm not a professional (or even amateur) CAD modeler. I just sort of winged it, and it came out fine. Here's a link to the FreeCAD file: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AoQ9rCp56pzCgbha010 ... w?e=HvjW0g, you can have a look at my workflow for yourself.
Thanks for reading!
Interesting Stuff:
OS: Windows 10 Version 2009
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.19.24291 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: releases/FreeCAD-0-19
Hash: 7b5e18a0759de778b74d3a5c17eba9cb815035ac
Python version: 3.8.6+
Qt version: 5.15.2
Coin version: 4.0.1
OCC version: 7.5.0
Locale: English/United States (en_US)