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Started dialing in the tracking on the Walker Turner. I replaced the rubber with urethane tires, but the saw is designed such that it wants you to glue and crown the tires regardless of what they are physically composed of, so I began the process.
Man! This thing is going to be SWEEET!!!!
I shot a coat of rubberized undercoating on the wheel covers too to hide any of the imperfections that I might miss, and I'll put one more layer of .5 glass cloth on top of that before I add the inserts for the mounting hardware that I designed myself. And then paint ofcourse.. I'll share the details on those at a later date, but like rockets, the design came to me in my waking moments, and today I cut the parts from aluminum stock. The covers are a later variant, and the little tabs that the mounting posts go through were riveted on, but my design will make them look like they are part of the mold, and do away with the rivets and the old mount tabs.
The Bell and Gosset motor is just being used as a surrogate to make things move at a manageable rate, so disregard it's irrelevance.
I simply start work when I visualize it, with whatever power source is most economical. Having a Library of sources makes sense.
Man! This thing is going to be SWEEET!!!!
I shot a coat of rubberized undercoating on the wheel covers too to hide any of the imperfections that I might miss, and I'll put one more layer of .5 glass cloth on top of that before I add the inserts for the mounting hardware that I designed myself. And then paint ofcourse.. I'll share the details on those at a later date, but like rockets, the design came to me in my waking moments, and today I cut the parts from aluminum stock. The covers are a later variant, and the little tabs that the mounting posts go through were riveted on, but my design will make them look like they are part of the mold, and do away with the rivets and the old mount tabs.
The Bell and Gosset motor is just being used as a surrogate to make things move at a manageable rate, so disregard it's irrelevance.
I simply start work when I visualize it, with whatever power source is most economical. Having a Library of sources makes sense.
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