Original support arm is now old style

The last of these original support arms failed on me this week. We lost power and the thing reversed direction and got hung up and burned out. My latest conclusion is that this method of support attached to the shaft is not sustainable enough, and at best you can only expect a 5 to 6 month life span.

I've decided it was too heavy, which put too much pressure on the internal gears.

One lesson learned is to provide for a pivot point so the apparatus will give instead of being forced to the point of burning out. The other lesson is to make it much lighter.

A final note would be the need for the primary clanging station to be able to handle the deterrent in both directions. More on this in a future post.