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—21 6 07
I actually ended the day with putting something together!
I finished polishing the rails. It took longer than expected because one part had some kind of protective coating on it. I ended up having to hit it with 80 grit paper, rather than starting with 400.
-lining up the frame to drill holes for the rivets.
-A quick trick I like to use when I want to keep the drill perfectly vertical. Line up the mark to be drilled in the center of a pipe fitting…
-Then you can use the upper rim to keep your bit aligned.
-I noticed fairly quickly that I forgot to countersink the rivet holes in the frame…
-Used a deburring bit to make indentions where the drive bay rivets will be.
—22 6 07
First, here’s the core for the experiment…
-I took my parts and did a quick layout check. I keep a big pile of dead drives for mocking up. some of the cleanup cutting will have to wait until I get my big tilesaw back.
-putting things together so I could mount the back panel. I like how close I got the fit here.
-My favorite weapons for this: scotch tape and bottles of lead shot.
-test fitting the rivets.
-I noticed the fit for a radiator will be close. I will need to do something to strengthen the back too. It’s going to look like swiss cheese.
-Trimming some small parts up in the garage with the table saw was messy. My hair ended up like this too. One of these days I will remember that little bag that came with the saw…
-An order from Tap Plastics came today, (packed like it was explosive.) My glue and my balls for the on switch. They seem smaller than they should be…(please ignore all possible double meanings.)
-I tried out the glue without doing any testing… With more bottles of lead shot.
-OOPS! I treated the glue like acetone. It dries faster and doesn’t ’squish’ out like acetone. Also, I had the blue side up and noticed that I couldn’t see to avoid air bubbles. I’m glad this is the backplate. This can be fixed later…
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