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Louis
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It keeps on looking better and better. We need something like this for our trip to Boston for the 45th anniversary. Maybe we can have Peter Davison come out of it.
Keep up the great work and keep the progress reports coming.
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Doctor Whoovie
Registered: 04/26/06
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| Saturday, October 18 2008 @ 01:21 AM EDT |
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14th October 2008
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Added the collar detail above the gunboxes and the other lower half collar tonight
Once the glue dries can trim them tomorrow night then add the spacer blocks for the final outer lower collar
16th October 2008
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Trimmed back the hard board on the inner lower collar. Then added the spacers for the outer lower collar.
Hope to add that tomorrow. The end of the shoulder section appears to be in sight.
After that it is foam, filler and sanding.
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Doctor Whoovie
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| Monday, October 27 2008 @ 10:30 PM EDT |
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October 19th 2008
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Summary: Progress followed by set-back followed by change of direction
1. Cut the from lower front band, and glued it in. Everything held in place by a couple of clamps and some nails, like so
All well and good, however I didn't soak the hardboard before I attached it.
2. Once the glue was dry and I removed the clamps, the hardboard straightened itself and pulled away from the spacer blocks
pulling out nails etc. it actually ripped away a layer of the hardboard which was still glues to the spacers.
Anyway, put it back in place with "loads" of glue. This time all stayed attached, however when I trimmed the bottom of the collar off with the jigsaw (as per usual). The hardboard started splitting. The only other time this happend was on an upper collar section which, now I think about it, didn't get soaked prior to application either.
Moral of the story: Soaking your hardboard before applying it to curved surfaces reduces stress in the board and lets it conform to the shape more easily (It therefore also reduces stress in the Dalek builder).
3. At this point am total Pi$$ed off with doing shoulders, so decided to move on to something else for a break. I have been under pressure from various household members to give some space back in the garage so I have decided to the casters to the fender and attached said fender to the skirt.
So off to Lowes and bought 3 5" casters (one with a brake). $9.98 each ($13 with brake).
Whilst I was there I picked up a 1" diameter broom handle and a 1"Forstner drill bit, to use the peg locator method of lining up skirt to fender.
Let me start off by saying the Forstner drill bit is really neat and certainly fun to use.
Firstly, I turned the skirt up side down and drilled four 1" holes in the base. The turned it right side up and located it on the fender and centered up. I marked up the locations of the four holes and also the large hole in the bottom of the skirt, since my fender still had a solid top.
Cut-out the large hole in the fender, then used the Forstner bit to make 1" holes about halfway through the fender top.
Next I cut 4 lengths of the broom handle, each about 3cm long. I used the power sander to rounf of the top of each. I put one of these "pegs" into the fender holes, then checked that the skirt went over these correctly. Fortunately it did. Then I glued the pegs in place. After the glue was dry I applied screws in from the other side of the fender just to make sure that the pegs were not coming out.
Then put fender and skirt together to check alignment. Everything is AOK inside and out (though the inside could do with a bit of tidying up).
When they are located together, it feels pretty secure (I am intending to use a more robust method of attaching them together at a later date, this is just for rough centering).
If I attached the casters direcly to the fender top, I would only have about 1cm ground clearance, which is obviously inadequate. So I spent this evening building some blocks to raise the clearance to about 5cm. The struts on the underside of the fender meann that the blocks have to be interesting shapes resulting in them taking a fair bit of time. So far one is complete and the others need finishing off tomorrow.
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Doctor Whoovie
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| Monday, October 27 2008 @ 10:35 PM EDT |
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October 22nd 2008
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Well just finishing up the caster installation before returning to the shoulders.
Drew some paper templates for blocks to fit between the fender struts. Cut double thicknesses of 3/4" MDF for each.
Bolted the castors to the first block and drilled recessed spaces for the boltheads into the second (another great excuse for fun with the Forstner drill bit).
Glued the recessed blocks to the fender.
Once the glue dried overnight, attached the castor blocks to the recessed blocks using 1" screws.
Whole fender glides nicely. Too nicely, it doesn't want to sit still on my slightly sloped garage floor. I am now glad I got at least one caster
with a brake. I am very pleased with the locator peg arrangement the skirt just pops on and into place in a couple of seconds.
Here is the fender with skirt attached and the complete stack (well dome plug on the ground and a dismantled neck in the background.
The gap between the fender bottom and the ground seems huge (about 55mm). Looks okay in the photos but I can see the casters easily
"in the flesh" so to speak.
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Doctor Whoovie
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| Monday, October 27 2008 @ 10:39 PM EDT |
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27th October 2008
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Got a fair bit done this weekend, but the results don't look hugely different.
Firstly, finished the outer lower collars on the shoulders (hurray!). Started a little filling on the gaps and front detail too. Mainly so that the expandable foam used to fill the spacer voids doesn't start squirting out where I don't want it.
Need to tidy up the filler a little, make sure all the collar edges are close to level then I'll fill the gaps with expandable foam.
Also spent some time applying filler to fender. Previous images probably didn't show it too much but some of the panels were pretty wonky. Looks much better now.
Spent quite a bit of time working on the neck section, should have it together sometime this week.
Finally, on Sunday my garage was invaded by the Sinister Davranda (wearing an equally Evil Hannah Montana T-shirt)
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Doctor Whoovie
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| Friday, October 31 2008 @ 09:26 PM EDT |
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31st October 2008
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Rebuilt my neck over the last couple of evenings. Everything looks straight now.
Hopefully the neck blocks will cover-up al the glue padding up the enlarged neck
strut holes.
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ExtermaKnitter
Registered: 07/08/07
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| Saturday, November 01 2008 @ 02:28 AM EDT |
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Stewart, your dalek is looking great!
THanks for the updates! |
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daveac
Registered: 04/12/06
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| Saturday, November 01 2008 @ 08:08 AM EDT |
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[Quote by: ExtermaKnitter] Stewart, your dalek is looking great!
THanks for the updates! |
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Thanks from me too.
Keep the updates coming!
Cheers, daveac
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Doctor Whoovie
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| Wednesday, November 05 2008 @ 10:15 PM EST |
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5th November 2008
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Pam & Dave,
Thanks for the encouragement, nice to see someones watching.
On Sunday I did some filling of the fender and shoulders then last night I taped up the shoulders.
So this evening was (as Adam from Project Dalek says) "Fun With Foam" night. Unfortunately, I ran out of foam about
80% of the way through and had to pop down to Home Depot for a second can.
"What the Heck is he doing?" I hear you all say, stay tuned all will be revealed.
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daveac
Registered: 04/12/06
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| Friday, December 19 2008 @ 06:08 PM EST |
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Any more progress?
Cheers, daveac
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Doctor Whoovie
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| Friday, December 19 2008 @ 11:48 PM EST |
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Not much. My mum and Dad came to stay for three weeks over Thanks Giving and we went to Las Vegas. After they left my Kids have been competing in various Sporting and Musical Events, so time has been scarce.
I have trimmed the foam back and started applying Car body filler to them. However we had a cold snap and the filler doesn't dry well at tmperatures below 50F so I had to stop.Temperatures are back up into the 60s now, so I am hoping to get back into the swing of things this week. Perhaps there will be a significant update at the end of the weekend.
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Louis
Registered: 01/01/04
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| Tuesday, March 10 2009 @ 04:19 AM EDT |
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Any further updates? Or did you decide to just dump it into a pond somewhere  (kidding).
Cheers,
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Doctor Whoovie
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| Tuesday, March 10 2009 @ 07:06 AM EDT |
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I am due un update.
Some progress has been made, but I have had to slack a little. There have been lots of family things going on (my parents over from the UK, three kids in multiple sports each etc) and many work related stresses (just finished write 3 technical papers for a conference).
Hope to get cracking as the nice weather returns. It is much easier to spend time in the garage (and do sanding or sawing in the yard/driveway) when it's light in Evenings and warm.
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Louis
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| Wednesday, March 11 2009 @ 12:17 AM EDT |
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