- August 31st, 2009, 8:15 pm#160045
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Hey Everyone,
Started my pack about a month ago but I havent made real progress till now. My build is based off of Stefan's plans since they seem to be the most accurate. I Have roughly everything built and now I'm going back piece by piece to detail them. I'm going to becreating a plug, making a rubber mold from that, and then casting fiber glass shells till the mold basically falls a apart. So far I havent spent much on material. I'm lucky that my work has a wood shop and I've been using mostly scraps of melamine for my build ( more work but hey, its free). I may even be able to get some rubber for my mold and chopped fiber glass for free since my company uses this stuff in bulk everyday.
I decided to create a thread showing my progress so far. I started with the Crank Generator cause to me it seemed the most work. I'll update as I make significant advances. Also, I'm going to attempt to keep a total cost for the project so I can keep track of how much money I've blow. Feel free to ask any question on my processes or post comments and suggestions. Any ways with out further delay here is my pack build...
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Crank Generator:
Crank Gen. Built , sanded, and all edges listed on Stefan's plans as having a radius have been routed
Another shot of the Crank Gen from the back.
Detailed shot of the routed edge after the Crank has been primed and scratches have been filled with spot puddy.
Full shot of the Crank primed and patched.
Since all my edges are routed, I decided to take 1/8" strips of acrylic and bent them over the edges using a heat gun. I was able to do this but after doing so I would not recommend it. It was a lot of work and the pieces were hard to keep straight without getting burned. Its gonna take some work and bondo to fix some of the bends but I'll manage.I'm hoping it pays off in the end.
Another shot from the other side.
A shot of the bottom pieces after being bent and before being applied to the Crank Gen.
Bottom pieces applied.
Crank Generator with all "fins" applied ( except bottom right).
Thats all for now. I still have to sand and fix some things on the part as well as trim/ sand most of the fins to the right length, but I'm going to wait till the whole pack is together before doing a final touch up. No use in fixing spots if they are going to be covered up by another part .
Started my pack about a month ago but I havent made real progress till now. My build is based off of Stefan's plans since they seem to be the most accurate. I Have roughly everything built and now I'm going back piece by piece to detail them. I'm going to becreating a plug, making a rubber mold from that, and then casting fiber glass shells till the mold basically falls a apart. So far I havent spent much on material. I'm lucky that my work has a wood shop and I've been using mostly scraps of melamine for my build ( more work but hey, its free). I may even be able to get some rubber for my mold and chopped fiber glass for free since my company uses this stuff in bulk everyday.
I decided to create a thread showing my progress so far. I started with the Crank Generator cause to me it seemed the most work. I'll update as I make significant advances. Also, I'm going to attempt to keep a total cost for the project so I can keep track of how much money I've blow. Feel free to ask any question on my processes or post comments and suggestions. Any ways with out further delay here is my pack build...
**********************************************************************************************************************************
Crank Generator:
Crank Gen. Built , sanded, and all edges listed on Stefan's plans as having a radius have been routed
Another shot of the Crank Gen from the back.
Detailed shot of the routed edge after the Crank has been primed and scratches have been filled with spot puddy.
Full shot of the Crank primed and patched.
Since all my edges are routed, I decided to take 1/8" strips of acrylic and bent them over the edges using a heat gun. I was able to do this but after doing so I would not recommend it. It was a lot of work and the pieces were hard to keep straight without getting burned. Its gonna take some work and bondo to fix some of the bends but I'll manage.I'm hoping it pays off in the end.
Another shot from the other side.
A shot of the bottom pieces after being bent and before being applied to the Crank Gen.
Bottom pieces applied.
Crank Generator with all "fins" applied ( except bottom right).
Thats all for now. I still have to sand and fix some things on the part as well as trim/ sand most of the fins to the right length, but I'm going to wait till the whole pack is together before doing a final touch up. No use in fixing spots if they are going to be covered up by another part .
Last edited by | alkaline | on November 5th, 2009, 5:39 pm, edited 18 times in total.
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