this other thing I'm building

[Belugawrx]

I thought it might have been "Deep Thought", from 'Hitchiker's' for a bit but then,....nope

 

[urumomo]

 

[the Baron]

For some reason, I just had a flash in my mind's eye of the robot on the cover of Queen's "News of the World".

 

[urumomo]

Hmmm ,
you and at the least a few others like to see some humanoid going on in this . ,, which allowed the naming of it ( thanks to Aussie Cylon )

" news of the world " :


Well . Maybe . Possibly . Maybe not .Probably only slightly close to something at hand .

 

[the Baron]

Yeah, at this point, it looks like a torso to me. Like a classic 50s robot.

 

[urumomo]

" classic " ?
well ,
don't think so , but share to me what you're talking about .

 

[the Baron]

The T-pipe section looks like a hip joint to me, and above that (albeit inverted in the pics) is the torso of a robot. It's probably not what you're building, it's just what it looks like to me, at this point.

 

[urumomo]

close enough
only maybe 50-60 feet tall

 

[urumomo]

 

[Belugawrx]

 

[the Baron]

Domo, arigato, Mister Roboto!

 

[the Baron]

I'm taking out my insurance now....

 

[urumomo]

 

[urumomo]

 

[urumomo]

 

[urumomo]

 

[urumomo]

I always use the Extra Thin for the initial glue-up , then mop the joints with the heavy solids


from orbit



it's the only way to be sure

Now to make 20 of those things
then drill em out to accept the tubing .

 

[urumomo]

That's a lot of cutting in 2 mm styrene so I switched to the scroll saw :




Roughed-out with the scroll saw , then finished with sanding sticks using a jig to ensure exact duplication :

So , at the beginning of all this I checked the O.D. of the aluminum with this drafting template conveniently hanging next to the bench ,




Imagine my delight when the tube , which I guess we're calling 3/8 pipe now , wouldn't fit into the hole .

The first drill bit I had in the press had way too much run-out ( probably why it was in the Bad-Bits-Bin ) so I switched it out with a different brad point .
I figured I grabbed a 31/64 bit or something .... . Nope.

It's actually .516 inches ( 13.13 mm ) O.D.
Swell .
Terribly inconvenient .
I used that little jig to slice that 2 hundredth's of an inch out of the way using a sharp #11 blade .
Time Consuming .

glad I'm not working with 1/2 inch aluminum plate

 

[urumomo]

 

[urumomo]