Brainstorming Final Project

By hand

One of my hobbies is manufacturing watercolor paint by hand! Here's a progress shot of making milori blue paint. I use the pestle-shaped tool (muller) to incorporate the pigment into the binder by sweeping the paint around in circles.

Brainstorming Final Project

By hand

This process looks different for professional paint manufacturers; since they need to make paint in bulk, they use a 3 roll mill to mix everything together. 3 roll mills ensure that the pigment particles are a homogenous size and are fully incorporated into the paint binder. I'd love to make a 3 roll mill to make my paintmaking process more efficient, as I would be able to make paint much faster and at a greater volume.

Brainstorming

brainstorming

Here are my sketches in my engineering notebook

Preliminary CAD

CAD

Here's the first CAD design I made for the device. The dimensions of the mill without the apron/trough are 12.5" x 9.5" x 7"

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