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(no subject) [Dec. 24th, 2009|01:14 am]
Moving to portland, OR very soon.
trip begins in 2 days....
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Na na na na na na Batman! [Dec. 19th, 2009|12:21 am]
A friend of mine is making a batman fan film and I was assigned to make batman's gauntlets. I almost have them done, just a couple more coats of paint. I based them off of the ones used in batman begins. Made them from 18 ga steel, with 3/16" steel for the blades. The latch is a strip of spring steel with a 1/4" round pin riveted on.

Some pictures:
On my arm - http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2618/4164429208_1a1572835d_b.jpg
The pair - http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2538/4164431366_debfd2e400_b.jpg
Gauntlet open - http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2753/4195782872_c83da7001e_b.jpg
Latch open/closed - http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2658/4195783842_26478cfa67_b.jpg
Looking inside the wrist - http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2541/4195027757_5b3c656fc4_b.jpg

Since the pics were taken I have used a putty to smooth over the welds and have applied the first couple coats of paint.


Making of the batman begins gauntlets - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5-cCtcZDdE
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(no subject) [Nov. 26th, 2009|04:45 pm]
Registration if finally open on the replica prop forum!
http://www.therpf.com/
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(no subject) [Nov. 15th, 2009|05:17 pm]
My original harddrive finally died, it lasted 6 years 2 months (Maxtor 80GB). New hard drive is a western digital 500GB. I backed up almost everything, a few items I wish I had remembered/known how to backup-
My list of favs/bookmarks
My playlists
My music ratings
A couple save game files
A couple registry keys for games I no longer have the disk/cd key for
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(no subject) [Oct. 27th, 2009|12:27 am]
Current state of my lathe-
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2591/4048425315_57dd9e8edf_o.jpg
The headstock needs to be recast, it has a horrible shrink cavity. The bed is complete. The carriage is very nearly complete, just need to make some decent feed screws.
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(no subject) [Sep. 26th, 2009|11:12 pm]


http://www.colorpulsemusic.com/Colorpulse-Carl_Sagan_-_Glorious_Dawn(Cosmos_Remix).mp3
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(no subject) [Jun. 25th, 2009|05:18 pm]
As some of you may or may not know, I have begun building my own metal shop using the book series "Build your own metal shop from scrap". Link to book series- http://www.lindsaybks.com/dgjp/djgbk/series/index.html

Last summer I finished book 1, the foundry.
My furnace- http://pfrc.students.mtu.edu/mediawiki/images/e/e0/Furnace.JPG
Molten aluminum- http://pfrc.students.mtu.edu/mediawiki/images/a/a2/Melt.JPG

Now I am on book 2, the metal lathe. So far I have a handful of patterns made and I have cast the mounting bases. Pic- http://pfrc.students.mtu.edu/mediawiki/images/1/1a/Bases.JPG

and now i was able to shave $10 off the project by making my own set screw collars, woo!
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(no subject) [Jun. 15th, 2009|12:26 pm]
Dead Snow is released in US theaters this friday www.deadsnow.com


Also found a papercraft model of a VII C U-Boat (the one in Das Boot)
http://only-paper.ru/news/2009-06-04-3289
So now I can build a 1:72 scale paper u-boat. But this also means that I now have the sheet metal layout for all the panels in the hull... So what if I made it bigger? If I scaled it up 4x (1' x 12')it would be big enough that I could make it out of steel and it would be one hell of a model boat. If I scaled it up 10x it would be about 18" wide, wide enough to be used as a kayak. Of course it would also be 30' long and the prop would be the same size as one on a small motor boat... This is going to be expensive.
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(no subject) [May. 17th, 2009|12:55 pm]
Bleh, Norway won Eurovision. Not that I had a favorite song this year.
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(no subject) [May. 5th, 2009|06:05 pm]
I graduated. BS in biology. I guess that means I'm officially a scientist.
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