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Looking good!
At this stage we all know you're kidding when you say you haven't allready finished the clasp mechanism. Building an R2 from scratch, and asking about clasps? Stop being so modest!
R2 is coming along great. Looking at your photos...i really need to get myself some work gloves. Can't be Mr. Safety without some gloves.
-Dave
Dave,
Thanks for the vote of confidense,but the devils in the details and I'm trying to get it all Just right. :) By the way when working with gloves and drills be mindfull of the bit and and burs / screw feeds coming out of the hole they can snag your gloves and pull touyr finger into the bit....OOOch...
Crazybillybob
There was progress made on the R2 front ! R2Server is now on 3 Legs. Yeap 3 Legs. I also worked out a panel mounting system for the center foot shell panels. This took a bit of playing and trail n Error, but it works!
To be able to mount the third foot I had to cut out an area the size of the foot shell in the bottom ring (more of those real R2 details, as it's there because that's where the foot would go when r2 is in 2 leg mode....which mine doesn't do!). I started by drilling a hole near on of the corners (yeap it's a little 2.5" hole....Had the hole saw in the drill for running the gas pipe in the body and was too lazy to take it out, but it worked :) ).
Now A little Jigsaw action and bob's your uncle I'm done.
A little aside, as you can tell from the above pics...there's carpet there, yeap it's the middle of the living room. If your married and you whip out the jig saw and start cutting 3/4" plywood in your living room...be prepared for some flak..... I'll tell you my wife is great! I've done all kinds of R2 building this winter in our home (in the living room). But I've been told many times (by her and others) that most wives don't take to kindly to that sort of thing. So be warned!! Back to the Building
To connect all the legs together (better weight transfer) and maximize space. I used 3/4" Black steel gas pipe. There are floor plates on each outer leg, a union and a Tee between the two legs.
Here I'm getting the connections good and tight.
Once everything was nice and tight I installed it into R2 (that's why there's a union there....)
The third leg (a long piece of pipe) is attached to the downward leg of the tee. The ankle and pipe are joined by cutting a 1/4" notch out of the pipe slipping the ankle in and running 2 1/4" bolts through the pipe and ankle.
The Foots on but what about the panels?
Well I simply welded a tab across the top of the panel (sorry no pics?).
That was the easy part. Then I had to figure out how to latch the bottom. The Answer Clips. I brazed on 2 #8x32 machine bolts to the back of the panel.
Then I made some wing clips out of scrap sheet steel, bent to perfection (ok hillbilly perfection) and used a cut down #8x32 Machine screw to hold it in place.
The Finished Product from the outside.
With R2 Standing on his own I just had to slip a few details that are laying about in place and take a Work In Progress Pic. (haven't had one for a few months). as you can tell I'm really excited about this....In fact my wife kept telling me to go to bed (it was only 1Am) but I couldn't till I got this shot.....
The End is in sight, I was really worried that I wouldn't finish before MML. Still no guarantee...but I feel a whole lot closer (for the moment!)
Let Me know what you think,
CrazyBillybob
Awesome stuff, CBB. It's really coming along. The WIP shot looks really good.
I was pretty busy this weekend working on R2.
I was able to get the second foot mount mostly welded up (still have to attach the mounting points)
After these welds I was out of O2....so I moved on (got the tank refilled Monday so we're good to go!)
Most of Saturday was spent fighting with this skirt template.
The Problem is that it's curved and on an angle. so the angles are complicated. It took 10-12 templates to get it figured out.
I got all the plastic cut out and mocked up.
Then started the glue up (it's held in with Epoxy....don't want it going anywhere! and I ran out of Rubber contact cement).
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Still have 2 more pieces to glue on, then I'll get you more pics.
When I was making the Utiliy arms a few months ago I had one slight mishap, on the second arm the band saw blade snagged the hand and snapped it off. So I started laying out a new hand.
The Arm is shown too.
Here I've got the new hand cut out and I was toying with the Idea of giving it a pivot point (it's the shaft of a pop rivet). I don't care for the look, and the hand slides off to easy. Think it's getting glue together.
I also Ordered R2's Computing parts.
From Mini-box.com
VIA EPIA MII12000
M2-ATX DC-DC ATX Automotive Computer Power Supply
AC-Dc 12V 8.5A Power Supply
From Newegg
Seagate 250Gb 7200RPM IDE Hard Disk
CORSAIR Value Select 1GB DDR400 Ram module
I also contacted a fellow R2 builder that created these display boards for the group @ C3.
He's going to make me a set for MML (so I don't have to stand by R2 for 4 days answering the same Q's)
Lastly my wife and I got a few new tools from Home Depot. They are having a "Power Tool" sale you get a gift card back for so much if you spend so much, also they're having "a sign up for a Home despot credit card save 10%" drive too. So being the tight wads we are we did both.
The rough price for all was about $700, we paid about $600 and will get a $125 gift card too. Now we just have to wait 3-4 days so the balance can post then I'll pay that card off (and not use it again :) )
Yeap, My Tax Refund came in :)
Now I can look forward to assembling more stuff. Wife wants some shelves and cabinets made, now that I have the tools, crap she always finds away around my excuses! :)
As Always let me know what you think!
Crazybillybob
What the heck to they mean insert tab A into slot B....There's not slots just a bunch of square holes?
Lol, your clamps look like they come in a rainbow of fruit flavors!
I know what you mean about having the "ol' ball and chain" force you to actually stick to your excuses... I mean promises. I've now dedicated to designing and building a matching set of bookshelves that look like a stack of Tetris blocks. I wanted to get a tablesaw, she said no, I said "But I can make those tetris bookshelves I designed! You loved those, didn't you?" She said yes. Now I have to. lol.
Well after some time spent welding and adjusting the second motor mount is finished.
After even more welding brazing and drilling, the motor mount is mounted in the foot shell
So now I have two completed feet :)
The nice UPS man came to my house again today:)
The Heart of the case mod is here!
Now I've gotta design a mount for everything. I'll get to that this week.
Let me know what you think.
Crazybillybob
Is that a motherboard? If it is, it's the smallest damn mobo i've ever seen! What tricks can it do?
-Dave
I can't believe you are building that guy, I just can't imagine how much work that would be. You are doing a fantastic job on it as well, it looks perfect. I have seen many of your posts and they show you have a very extensive knowledge base, now I see that you have skills to match. My hat is off to you! Incredible work!
Yeap, it's a Mini-ITX motherboard only 17cm x 17cm (6.5"x6.5" about). Hasa 1.2 GHz proc, Onboard 2D/3D Accel with Mpeg2 Accel. Six channel Audio, on board LAn, USB, and Firewire. plus others. and only uses 25Watts.Quote:
Originally Posted by DaveW
JD,
Thanks, nice to see that my words meant something to someone :)
Crazybillybob
