Airconvent wrote:Looks like you are making good time. Thank goodness for the Christmas holiday season...
BTW, Merry Christmas and a happy new year to you, your families and all the mates down under.
I'm on my break in a couple of days. Then the work stops....
God bless ya mate, all your loved ones and everyone here on the forum! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
I've been working in secret on a gift for my wife for Christmas. I saw the idea online somewhere and embellished on it a little.
The mini-arc-reactor pendant is just the rearranged parts of an internal hard drive motor. I bought a single LED, some thin insulated wire and a 3V battery, along with some beads in Iron Man colours from the local 2Dollar store.
The battery has a soft cover to hide behind her hair, but not pictured here.
Most important and got it right this time! I can bend my arm enough to replenish fluids by myself during the long gigs in a steel suit! Rock on!
Legs are a fantastic fit. I can bend to 90 degrees, there's room for padding too. I have to pull them up slightly to get them off the ankles and up into the crutch more, so some nylon straps will fix them to the hip pods to sort that out.
I started mods to the helmet today. I separated the faceplate by cracking the spot welds with a fine and sharp cold-chisel on the anvil.
I welded in some edging to make the helmet look like it's made of heavier material. Most of this I did before separating the faceplate to minimise distortion due to welding heat. Some of it I had to do after because there simply wasn't enough room to get the welding gun in there.
Added the last section at the back of the helmet that swings up to allow the head in then locks behind the back of the neck.
Plenty of room. Once the padding goes in it will sit up higher on my head, bringing the chin in line with mine.
Room in the chin for electronics.
Snug fit. No bobble-heads.
All the edging welded in now. Just a bit more clean-up to get all the seams to match up again. This view shows the bottom section closed behind the back of the head.
