Alright, update time during lunch. Yeah, we eat all meals late usually.
Feeling like I made up for how I felt about yesterday's progress, and I'm not even finished yet for today. Lol.
I started by using the elbow/forearm/hand destroyer scratchy block on one of the side rails.
Comparison of a bare rail and the one I silica'd. (Ha, just noticed I took a pic of the angled edge of one to the round edge of the other. Doh! )
Next I scored a line 0.438" from the inside edge with the calipers. I went over that with a pencil to have a guide to line up the center band to.
I measured out a 1.25" wide strip and then just got the length needed by rolling the rail on its outside edge and marked a little past where it came to rest. Kinda like figuring out how much wrapping paper to cut.
After scoring and snapping the center bands into existence, I simply bent them over and over until they stayed the shape that lined up with the mark I made on the rail. I do have a heat gun, but didn't need it, or I'm stubborn, or lazy, or both. Building a porton pack from scratch; only for the lazy!
Glued the bands on lining them up to the line carefully. Wasn't too difficult at all.
Cut the little flat and angled dude and abrasived down the side that matches up to the top center plate. Glued him on. Yes, this piece has a gender.
Glued the top center plate on. Had to use my jeweler files to widen a side of the left/front (right in this pic) indent thing. That was a pain. Easy, but a pain. Like eating Sloppy Joes. Shoved extra glue in the seems to later coarsely coerce them to be seamless once the glue dries.
Ran a bead of glue around the inside edge cause I like wasting glue trees, or for reinforcement.
I shark-skin-elbow-greased the second rail to curvy spec, made it's band alignment mark, and glued it on.
Ran another indigenous adhesive resource wasting bead of glue on the inside.
Then I roughed up all the protruding edges till they met on common ground and played nice (right section of top plate (left in this photo) where it meets the macho angled piece, both bottom angled spots where the center band protruded a little).
That's where I'm at now. Next I'll be plotting out the 10 (ug, TEN! ) wing pieces to glue/laminate to the bottom of the top center plate. Yay fun! Liking how it's turning out so far!
Oh, it seems doing everything to Stephan's plans' specs makes the back of the bumper sit very close to the top of the cyclotron when the bumper arms sit flush with the bottom of the synchronous generator. I never saw this issue come up on the forums or in the changes to Stephan's plans thread. I do know there's supposed to be a quarter to half inch gap and spacer there. Hmmm, do I care? Opinions? Happened to anyone else?
Stay tuned ghostheads!
"Don't be a crazy!" -
Alan Hawkins "Let's just not get bogged down in print tolerances, as spending six years cutting a perfect pack is all blown away once the thickness of the PAINT is introduced! hahaha" -
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