PROJECT OVERVIEW

This project was a complete labor of love and hate! As much as I enjoyed modeling all the many many parts, I found a few  that were exceedingly difficult. Once I had everything modeled and looking like the original parts, I had to put it all together. I found a few that were the wrong size due to breaking whilst taking the sifter apart, but all it took was a simple resize.  

I am so happy how this turned out. This exploded view shows how each piece fits together. The next photo of the Drawing give better details.

Please see the YouTube link on my home page for a motion study showing the sifter working.

The only change to this drawing was adding in material for the food grade stainless steel screen. To make the screen render properly, I used a chain-link fence appearance and scaled it down a lot.

I originally couldn't figure out how to get the handle of the part properly attached to the hopper. I also tried to put a slight curve on the handle but to no avail. The more I messed with it, the worse it got so I just gave up.  

 

Hopper Drawing with sections and details.

This part really made my head hurt! So many cuts, angles, and fillets. I ended up taking the part and tracing around it on a piece of paper and measuring what I traced. It worked!