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I need your input here people. The picture below is the incomplete right arm so I have a question, should I make the elbow from nylon and make it an attachment on the upper arm or go with the material in the picture? Keep in mind the material in the picture will likely wear out much sooner than a nylon elbow. Now based on my last project that took me two years I've only used it four times and once I build something and get the bugs out of it I lose interest. I think the nylon will function better and longer but the metal finished parts will have a classier look. What do you think?
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These will be his forearms, wrists, hands and possible elbows left and right sides.
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I did a little grave robbing but don't tell anyone
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This is Charons organ donor, I'm using his skull, forearms, wrists and hands.
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Charons arms stage two.
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The start of Charon's arms Shoulder bearings staked in place Upper arms temporarily in place Nemean introducing herself to Charon
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His framework so far. Turns out he is going to be left handed because his left shoulder is more square to his frame than the right side. I've also started machining his shoulder shafts, those his arms and hands will be very entertaining.
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I'm going to scrap the swivel at the waist when rowing, it dawned on me that he will be paddling in tight left hand circles if I do that!
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First picture is the side view of the unfinished parts. Second picture is the shoulder bearings and the machined sleeves they will be mounted in, I made those from a piece of brass pipe. The last picture is the electronics.
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After machining his waist components.
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Been a while since my last posting and I've elected to scrap all previous Charon's to start on the final one. The final Charon is going to be smaller than originally planned due to my lack of storage space. He is also going to look something like Terminator until I cover him with his clock. I have started making him out of brass as his main structure, the first pictures are the progress of his waist.
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The hull was painted using two spray cans bought from Canadian Tire, one black and one red, not rust prevention paint. I painted the red first a little past where it would meet the black. Once dry I drew a rough line with a pencil where the two colours meet then ran painters tape along the line then covered the red painted area up so there would be no over spray. I sprayed the black at around 45 degrees to the hull so there was no chance the black paint would get under the tape. The deck is not stained or clear coated, I plan on clear coating the deck to help cover up my glue klutzing, that will darken the deck slightly and hopefully mask my mistakes. One thing you need to do is make sure the ribs and keel are lined up properly, test fit everything don't assume the kit maker did it right because often a mistake on the hull will cause you grief later.
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Shaping mainly done, I then cut and separated the forearm and hand. The forearm and hand are threaded to allow the insertion of the "wrist" stud that is actually a pivot point between the forearm and wrist. The stud threads will hold the two pieces together and have the threads to rotate on.
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The start of the elbows, forearms and hands cut and drilled ready for shaping.
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Based on my videos I think it's time for a new camera, I think I will start putting in my Christmas request.
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Thank you Steven it is handy. Patrick, water ingress is not a problem as far as free board goes, I do get very little water inboard unless I flail the oars too much. I don't think it will handle well in choppy waters or wind because even the real thing would have trouble with that stuff.
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More progress.
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Thanks Walter as a matter of fact I do have an FPV setup that will be going into Charon the Ferryman of the river Styx. I could set up FPV on the Bireme, maybe down the road I could make a removable setup for my boats. The Quad was the reason I got FPV to begin with and that has been a lot of fun.
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I see Walter, I can see why you aren't a fan of RC. However a quad and slow boats are about the same skill set. I have my creations plus a quad, sailboat and helicopter the later being the most difficult of all my RCs. Just the same it would be fun to float it in a pond.
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Sits great in the water, stupid question is it remote control?
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Thanks very much Kees but most of the credit needs to go to AEW he came up with the rowing program for the Arduino board.
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