Slip Ring explanation
I received a question about how my slip ring solution was, and I thought I'd explain it in unnecessary detail here: These are the pieces I cut out and the
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Biggest post so far...?
Wow! A lot of things to report after today! First off, I finished gluing the frame together as promised! When the glue was setting, I did do additional wor
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Routing and bodywork!
So, the weekend started with me getting in the car early saturday morning to drive the two hours down to Sigge. We had planned to get as much routing done
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More work on main ankles...
So, I spent the evening with fixing my ankles! I started construction before my vacation, but now it was about time to continue work on these. Basically, m
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Back into Building!
So, after a two week hiatus on my R2 build I am finally back. Well, to be honest, things have been pretty ok with me in the past few weeks, since I have be
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D-Day (Dome-dagen in Swedish...) (and ankles...)
So.. Today was D-Day! One of the first items I ordered for my R2 build arrived.. in this small package: Opening the box gave me this view: Removing the pla
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Center ankle - COMPLETE
So .. I fulfilled my goal of the day. The center ankle is now COMPLETE ! Naturally, it needs painting, but I'm saving the paint job for spring, when it is
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Fine detail day..
So, no pics today, not that interesting anyway ... yet =) Today has been about sanding... and sanding ... and sanding. I can happily say that my center leg
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Oh, yeah... Almost forgot:
I also sanded the sides of all the frame and skirt support pieces, to make sure they edges tht are going to be glued are square, an that they are all the s
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6 hours of building today..
.. and I got a lot of stuff done ! =) First off, I sanded the half-moons i glued together last night, and look at what beauties they are: I am very happy w
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I see a half moon rising...
So, after I realized that I had used up the half moons intended for the main feet, I decided to give it a try to scratch build them today. I didn't have en
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Main foot almost done...
So, after completing (!) my center foot, I decided to keep on doing the footwork.. Got most parts of the left foot shell done, and did a test fitting with
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