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Old 03-25-2013, 04:41 PM   #28 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by AndrzejM View Post
This is cool! I like the idea. Do you have a film published somewhere from the testing with a webcam. I'd love to see how it behaves when the speed increases.
Well, I found some left over coroplast, that I forgot I had, from my previous grill block that didn't go so great. Made a video of the grill block closing by mounting a webcam to my license plate. The video is not very good quality because I don't have a very good webcam, but it works well enough. It is a little better if you click on the gear near the bottom right of the video and increase the quality to 480p, after starting the video.

I was not able to record the slides re-opening because the camera kept lagging and freezing up. The slides do open back to where they started in the same way that they closed.

I am very satisfied with how this grill block turned out and I intend to paint it black and keep it on year-round. The only thing left to do other than painting is to add a bit of weight to the back side of the slides, so that it closes a little later. I will be aiming for the slides to close completely at 40 MPH

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