Various parts finished.

What can I say its been a while since my last update. Like I thought I spent my whole vacation gutting and renovating my shed to be converted into a workshop, while still not a 100% completed I have very little to go. I wish I had another week off lol. Anyhoos back on track here, I spent this week working on the proton pack after spending a couple days of much needed "Not Doing anything". I was able to finish 4 parts, first part was PPD, fairly simple part pretty much just a cylinder with a angle cut on one end.

Next part was another easy one, its the decorative corner plate that goes on the top right corner of the pack just to give it some "fat". This part had a couple odd angles that at first stumped me but once I sat down and thought about it they ended up being fairly easy.

Onto the following part is the shock mount, which all it is really is a cylinder with a bunch of ribs cut into to it. This was another part that threw me for a loop in the beginning but then was easily overcomed.

When it comes time Iam still on the fence on whether I will lathe this piece out or just use the one I have, made of a bolt and different size washers.

Finally I made the Clippard valve. I like the way this piece came out because I wasn't sure how accurate the blue prints were since it was stated on the print that I needed to take some liberty's on certain dimensions. Lucky for me though I stumbled onto clippards site where they actually had some sketchup files already made of the part. Boy was I happy to see how pretty much dead on I was with the one I downloaded, the only differences besides the lack of certain details, was the dimensions around the neck of the top of the valve. I had to make up my own dimensions. This is definitely a part I will be lathing, so I will need to come up with some more accurate dimensions. Iam excited because this will be my first part ever I will be making on how to learn how to use the lathe.

Can you guess which ones the one I made lol.

Thats all for now, next post Ill have some progress pics on the wand.