In this chapter Ian is building Mando's grappling
hook. Welcome to Chapter Six of the
Mandalorian series. Over the last month Hacksmith Industries has
been piecing together our very own Mandalorian suit. In Chapters One to Five we put together The
Flamethrower, The Blaster and Spear, The Helmet, The Baby Yoda Cradle, and The Jet Pack. All leading up to an epic finale where James
will don the suit for the very first time, and put it to the
ultimate test. You definitely don't want to miss it. James has moved on to the most intensive part
of the build, the armor. It's a huge undertaking that's going to take
a lot of blood, sweat, and tears. So in the meantime Caleb has been working
behind the scenes on the rifle. And Jeff has focused on the MSE-6 also known
as the Mouse Droid. Because why not. That video is available early as in right
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they're all gone! Okay Mando has no shortage of awesome accessories. The grapple gun is one of the less flashy
tools in his arsenal but its practicality and versatility make
it a valuable asset. He can use it to ascend to heights above, or like a lasso tangling up a bounty and
reeling it in. Back in the earlier days of this channel we
made a lot of Batman gadgets. I'm batman. And one in particular that Ian built is going
to come in very handy. This is the Batman Grappler that I made a
few years ago, and to this day it's still one
of my favourite projects. And we did some pretty awesome
stuff with it. A lot has happened since then. One of our interns JT actually made his own
version which was smaller and more powerful. So I'm going to take the best
parts of my design, combine it with the best parts of JT's design, put it all together and make the ultimate
Mandalorian grappler. This build is broken up into five main components. The motor, speed controller, gearbox, launcher,
and winch. First we have the motor and speed controller. We actually partnered with MGM to turn the
power of this project up to 11. And honestly I think we went too far. MGM hooked us up with this custom wound motor
and this beast of a speed controller. To put this in perspective, this system
is as powerful as my motorcycle. And it's going to be mounted on my arm. What what could possibly go wrong? When you cheap out on speed controllers something
like this happens... And I really don't want that to happen while
I'm hanging from a nylon cord. That's why I'm using the best of the best. This is the TMM-25063. It's from MGM's industrial line of controllers. We've used MGM controllers in the past and
they're incredible. Next we have the gearbox. I'll be borrowing from JT's design and use
the exact same one. This is an off-the-shelf planetary gearbox
designed for first robotics. It's basically the same kind of thing that
you'd find in an electric drill. It comes with a bunch of data sheets with
fancy graphs and torque data, and on paper it should work. But honestly, I have a hard time believing
that this motor won't rip it to pieces. Next we have the launcher. I'm going to reuse my design which also happens
to be the same mechanism as my apex legends launcher. Lastly we have the winch. JT used a spool whereas my batman grappler
used a custom designed mechanism. A spool is nice and simple which is great
for reliability, but the length of the rope is limited to the
size of the spool. My mechanism doesn't have that issue because
any rope that gets pulled in gets spit out again. meaning that there's no limit to the length
of the rope. I'm going to take my batman design
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below. Alright Mando's grappler, what do we got here? Well for starters we got a motor in the gearbox. Check that thing out. That is ridiculous, how powerful is this motor? 40 kilowatts. That's over 50 horsepower. Yeah. It's gonna rip off my arm! That one's actually slightly less than 40
kilowatts. We got a different....a custom winding so
it's more torque and less overall power. Still it's a lot of power. And this beast of a controller
to control it. That's huge! That's actually where JT's design ended up failing. He burnt out the speed controller
in his final test. Yeah so MGM hooked us up. It's going to be... It's going to work. Damn. Alright let's take a look at the design. When I was modeling it initially I was like
okay we need a handle. It's going to strap onto your arm, that sort
of thing. But since we've been talking you want to make
it more Mandalorian themed. So. Yeah I think we want to use the same kind
of like metal shrouding around my arm. Yeah. But I think we should make it a bit bigger
because that was pretty tight on my arm. But I do like the idea of having something
I hold really strongly. Moving on we can see the spool design. So this is similar to what we have in the
batman grappler. That looks familiar. Miniaturized and I'm gonna modify this a bit
more to make it even smaller. Any rope that it sucks in it will
also spit out. I can grapple for infinite distances. Yeah. That is as long as we can buy a rope . What about the actual actual grappler launcher. Where is that going? Once I compact the winch mechanism a little
bit more, I'll just kind of stick it inside here. Okay. And to control it we have this little thumb
wheel. So initially I was thinking yeah it moved
it sits into the handle and you can control up and down. I've never seen one of those before, that's
awesome. Yeah uh Bogdan picked that out on Digikey. Do I want to know how much this cost? Yeah it's like a hundred dollars. A hundred dollars for a switch this big?! But it feels really nice. It does. It looks like you got your work
cut out for you. Yeah I'm uh starting to realize that I'm behind
on this project. Alright get to it. I got my two stainless pieces and they're
ready to be formed into the gauntlet. I think I'm almost halfway there. Alright so I've mangled this piece, so I'm going to cut a new one out of thinner
stainless and try again. Alright take two. Oh it's so much easier! 16 gauge. That was a single bend instead of like 16. Pretty close. Alright so I actually don't know how to tig
weld so I'm going to hand this off to James. And I'm going to go do some machining. It didn't damage the threads, that's good. Now it's time to start doing the fun part. It's pretty spot on. It might be 550 so the cord might actually
be a little larger. I just gotta quickly laser cut the grappling
hooks. Alright now that I have the laser cut grappling
hooks, this just needs to be welded on. That was the last part. Now I get to start with the assembly. Ian gave me the job of making the wires to
connect the motor to the speed controller. Since the speed controller is in the jet pack,
I need to make some fairly long wires. Let's get started. To see the full circuit diagram make sure
to check out the maker.io link down in the description. So I can machine most of these parts in-house
which is great, but this part right here. Beyond my capabilities. So I'm going to take the easy route and get
Protolabs to 3D print it for me. Protolabs offers quick turnaround digital
manufacturing services. They specialize in 3D printing, CNC machining, injection molding, and sheet metal fabrication
processes. Okay so let's get an instant quote. I'm going to choose 3D printing. Upload my part. Let's go with stainless steel 16L because
that's what we're using for the rest of the project. Choose my configuration. And check out! Great, this should be here in two to three
days. Let's see how Protolabs actually makes the
part. I've got all my parts ready and this fancy
Hacklorian shirt hacksmith.store. So let's hop into assembly. We'll start with the gearbox. Cool thing about this gearbox is that it's
modular. I'm going to go with a one-to-nine gear ratio,
that means that when the motor spins nine times the end will spin once. Low speed, high torque. This is the motor to gearbox adapter. Slides on here and bolts onto the motor and
then we can bolt it onto gearbox. Now we get to assemble the winch. The next step is tricky because I need to
put a bunch of pieces in at the same time. It's actually easier to assemble this with
the rope on it. So the rope winds around these grooves. And when you drive the motor, it turns this piece. It sucks in rope from here and spits it out
the other end. And there's enough friction in there that
it doesn't slip. Get the bearings in place which pinches the
rope to the mechanism make sure that it stays tight. There's just the top plate that holds everything
in place and guides the rope through. I also designed in a hex right there so I
can put an allen key in and rotate it manually. As you can see it is sucking in the rope and
spitting it out the other end. Alright great let's head over to the bench. Time for the first test I'm excited but also
nervous. So what I want to figure out here is make
sure it can lift a person. So I've got a weight set up here. It will lift it up. Set it back down and then we'll add weights
and verify that I can continue doing that. Here goes! Success. Let's go faster. Alright 70 pounds here we go. Let's go straight to 200. 200 pounds here we go. Poof! Alright the rope broke a little sooner than
I was hoping but we'll get a stronger rope and try this
again. Here's another test. Here we go 200 pounds. Yeah it kind of seems like it jammed. One of the planetary gears seized up uh fortunately
I bought spares. There you go. Here goes. We've increased the speed, we've got a dummy
across the shop, I'm going to drag him to myself. Here goes. That was awesome but I'm going gonna make
sure that this thing wasn't damaged because it
hit it pretty hard. So let's see what happens next. The winch works great so let's try out the
launcher. It's basically the apex legends launcher so
it should work fine. I also have a rope. Let's give it a go. Three, two, one. I would call that a success, let's put it
all together and get it working. Gauntlet's looking great with the launcher
welded on there, so next step is to put the winch on here. The tricky part is getting
these wires through this little hole in the back. so I think I'm going to need some tweezers. I've got this nice little power pack and normally
this goes inside of the jet pack, but it's removable so I can test this without
wearing the big jet pack. So I just need to pair these things together
and we'll be ready to test. Loading! Three, two, one. Yes! Alright gonna try to wrap it around their
legs. Here we go. That was awesome it can grapple but can it
winch? Let's hook up the speed controller and try
it out. Alright now it's my turn. Hey Ian you ready? Oh I'm ready. Alright what else can we do... Oh boy here we go. Yeah baby! So scary. Turns out, this is the way. That's so fast! If Ian ever comes down, we can add one more
gadget to our expanding arsenal for this project. Until then in Chapter Seven Caleb will be
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