Yippie! Thanx jbdnsn and the all TBCS members reading and answering this thread
I hope to fulfill your expectations and to deliver some updates during the next days because I leave for holidays on August, 7th for two weeks.
The next big step is to have water flowing through the new visor!
See you soon,
|NQ|Squelsh
BTW: |NQ| stands for NetQuarter. We make LAN-Parties in Germany with 100 to 400 gamers. (In case someone wants to visit us)
I have only a small status update for you at this time (with some mobile-phone-pics):
So, the third Visor-Reservoir is 90% completed. As you see on the pics, the water ducts and hinges are on their place:
Left hinge (water inlet):
Right hinge (water outlet):
Water outlet in the top:
All the glueing is not perfectly smooth looking but I need this to be water-proof so I use a little to much glue all the time. But nobody will see the mess later as I'm going to sand the top sphere at those areas like last time. So you can't see through.
What you can hardly see on the pics: All plexi spacers are made of two layers. That's why I need so much time for it. Glue one piece, wait some hours and then glue the next layer over it... It's annoying but as someone here said: "This case has to be built!"
While I was waiting for the glue to harden, I started on the support for the hinges:
This is 1mm aluminium. It will be placed between the visor and the outer sphere and hold the visor. The aluminium will be bent later and then fixed to the wooden pase-plate.
Thats it so far. I'm going to work on it this afternoon and I really hope to get the visor done to a state to show you the water flowing throug
Unfortunately it didn't work out as good as I expected
Fortunately I leave later this night for my holliday, so I don't worry about computers for two weeks
The glueing I did today was not perfect because it was too hot (33 degree celsius, quite good for Germany).
Well, here is the result:
The problem is the water duct inside the visor. It's not water-proof and so the water does not get up to the logo
Well, I have to fix this in two weeks.
Thanks all for watching and your tipps for the servo.
See you,
Squelsh
No, this project is not dead
But I had important exams and then I've been on holidays. But now I am back working.
As you can read in my last post, the visor was glued together but the inner water-duct leaked. I spent some thoughts of tearing it apart again but then a new idea came to my mind:
I drilled some 2mm holes into the outer sphere along the water-duct and injected glue into them with a hose quite slowly. During the process I held the visor in a way that the glue flowed along the duct.
The visor wrapped in some foil to protect it against scratches:
My injection-tool Made of a pipette and a hose:
The result:
All the ugly smearing will later be invisible because I will matt that section of the visor as with my last version.
Later I will add some fake holes so the visible dots will be evenly distributed.
Hope it's waterproof now!
Test results will arrive in some hours, when the glue hardened.
Only some small improvements and the matting have to be done. And of course the fittings for water in/out. But I think the most critical part of work is done
Here are the videos I made:
As you can see, the water does not flow right downwards over the logo But I hope to get this fixed in the next glueing session this afternoon.
Hey, thanx guys for your rep and for still following my thread!
To answer your questions: The water level in the visor can be chosen freely. In the video the water flows straight through because it's no closed loop with the pump. I'm not sure how much water will be in the final system. I think something about 50% capacity.
Back to the work:
To correct the water direction I installed two small pieces of plexi in the visor. Drilled some holes and filed them:
These are the pieces, formed to fit the radius:
Half inserted...
...and glued in:
Tadaaaa, the result: The water now flows perfectly around my logo.
After that I went on sanding the outer sphere to matten the spaces where the ugly glue was visible:
Sandblasting rocks! Why didn't I tried this before??
The pic ist not as perfect as the result The white dots you can see is condensed water.
One can realize fine patterns with real sharp lines and I think I will use this technique on some other parts. It's much faster than carving and makes fun.
Well, it's only a small but important update:
My constructions seem to fit
I tested today how the Visor fits into the outer quarter sphere. What should I say? Look at the pics and the video:
I will close the gap between the Visor and the sphere with something flexible like foam or fabric. The adhesive tape you see is only for protection purpose.
Closed:
Open:
To make the video, I added some provisional hinges made of two needles and some cork.
When I assured that everything fitted quite well, I started to work on the real hinges:
The holes in the upper quarter-sphere are the mountings for some plexi-disks that get fixed to the Visor. You can see them some posts ago.
The parts you can see here are the last parts missing at the visor. They make the base for the plexi-disks through which the real water-hinges will lead:
Well, I glued the stuff and now I have to wait till tomorrow.
See you soon,
Squelsh
Hey p0Pe, thats exactly what I am going to fill into the visor
I'd love to see how it looks but I don't have enough UV-color for a test...
Today I continued work on the wooden baseplate. But when I compared the visor to the plate I was shocked!
The Visor isn't spherical any more. All the layers glued on the inner sphere made it elliptical That makes it necessary to build an elliptical Orb...
The difference is only about 1cm. Thats not too much compared to the 40cm diameter, so I hope no one will notice it. But it makes things even more complicated...
Pictures of the new baseplate will be added later.
See you. Squelsh