Right, here I am again. For the past two years, all of my time has gone to my master mechanical engineering. This doesn't really leave space for things like vacations, it just keeps on going. That's why I haven't really done anything else for the past years, and I don't like that. I have to keep drawing, designing and fabricating, or my mood will suffer.
A few months back, in April, me and _ferry_ went to Madrid to visit Campus Party Europe. The organization invited us to represent the Dutch casemodders, of course we said yes. The event was really cool and we met a lot of casemodders that walk around here, like Phinix and p0Pe. There were also a lot of quiet moments though, in one of which I proved the quadratic equation Also, I designed about a handful of reservoirs, this one is called Reflow:
The design of the first piece of acrylic, on Spanish paper:
In the past years I have collected a huge amount of acrylic, so I could just grab a piece of 20mm thick out of a big sheet:
The design was transfered to the block of arylic, after which I just started drilling the toughest set of holes. They are 12mm in diameter, and about 50mm deep. Lubrication and a lot of clamping was necessary to get this far:
The two holes at the top are for filling and removing the air from the loop, although their placement is not ideal
This is the back of that same piece. As you can see, the holes from the bottom only go to one of the sides. I'll show you later what those holes are for
Hmm ok, you may notice it a little early. I need two pieces tubes, 60mm in diameter, nicely cut and sanded to be as straight as possible:
From orange acrylic I will be fabricating two end plates. The color has nothing to do with football, it's just a nice color that I still have a lot of
With a little help from the belt sander I was able to sand them perfectly round. I will soon glue them to the tubes, once they're sanded and polished. You just have to wait a little, I will post that soon