So I asked around about attaching the booster covers to the legs, and the consensus seems to point toward E6000, a craft adhesive I hadn't heard of before but folks seem to like. So I got some at Lowe's and have tested it out on the holoprojector which got knocked out of place when I was putting R2 in the car after Planet ComiCon. It says to give 24 hours to cure, so I gotta keep my cotton pickin' mitts off until tomorrow night. Hopefully this stuff will do the trick.
Meantime, I put another dose of metal paint on the wooden hubs. They're looking better, but I think I'll give them one more coat tomorrow morning before work. Also, I want to take the ankle shims with me so I can cut the back parts off and actually mount them in place. I'll see how the E6000 stuff works there, metal to wood. That's probably all I'll be able to do before I take off for the weekend. Hopefully next week I'll be able to cover some more ground on the legs, at least get the outer ones finished up and ready to go.
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Showing posts with label holoprojector. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Dome coming along, holoprojectors and more
So the holoprojectors showed up yesterday, which was cool. As you can see below, each one comes in three parts, including the front and back containers. Here they are before smoothing and painting:
Gave everything a nice paint job and so it should be nce and dry by Thursday night when I hit hte maker space. Also, since my lenses came in today, I went ahead and put them in (they fit very snugly; don't need glue or anything). In the meantime, I went ahead and glued down the dome and the blue bits going all the way around. Here's what it looks lie now, with me holding the holoprojectors in (I haven't glued them in yet as I wanted to give the paint a little more time. Learned that lesson the hard way).
As you can see, it's getting very close. Going to see about the top spokes tomorrow night, and if not, will just say to hell with them and leave them as-is. Picked up nuts and wingnuts for attaching the dome and ring to the rockler bearing as well. Then in go the blue "pie slices" up top, the holoprojectors will get glued in, and then it will be a case of finishing up Teeces. And that will be the dome.
Actually, the Teeces stuff is coming along well. I spent last night de-flanging the flanged LEDs that came in the mail, and I've got them in little baggies in by project box, ready for soldering tomorrow night. Now if only the LED controllers and 5-pin jumper cables would show the heck up...oh, well. I've got a few nights of soldering before I need to worry too much about that.
Gave everything a nice paint job and so it should be nce and dry by Thursday night when I hit hte maker space. Also, since my lenses came in today, I went ahead and put them in (they fit very snugly; don't need glue or anything). In the meantime, I went ahead and glued down the dome and the blue bits going all the way around. Here's what it looks lie now, with me holding the holoprojectors in (I haven't glued them in yet as I wanted to give the paint a little more time. Learned that lesson the hard way).
As you can see, it's getting very close. Going to see about the top spokes tomorrow night, and if not, will just say to hell with them and leave them as-is. Picked up nuts and wingnuts for attaching the dome and ring to the rockler bearing as well. Then in go the blue "pie slices" up top, the holoprojectors will get glued in, and then it will be a case of finishing up Teeces. And that will be the dome.
Actually, the Teeces stuff is coming along well. I spent last night de-flanging the flanged LEDs that came in the mail, and I've got them in little baggies in by project box, ready for soldering tomorrow night. Now if only the LED controllers and 5-pin jumper cables would show the heck up...oh, well. I've got a few nights of soldering before I need to worry too much about that.
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