We spent today getting the shadows ready for the Romanza plug, I had got the shadow part of the drawing copied 20 times by the local copy shop and spent some of the recent England v Slovenia match cutting around them. With an early start one day last week I was able to stick them to some 1/8 ply I had left over from a job and roughly cut around them with my work jigsaw, I should explain here that I am a kitchen fitter by trade so most of my timber will probably fall of the back of a job! So we now had 20 roughly cut shadows! Todays task was to turn these into the finished article, (well nearly) as there was a lot of lines on the shadows I started by marking around the shadow the line to cut to with highlighter, PJ then cut them out on his scroll saw with a final finish to the exact size on the belt sander. As he was doing this I cut the supports for each shadow from 12 x 15mm pine timber 2inches longer than the bottom of the shadow the final product can be seen here. This final part only took us a couple of hours between us however the cold started to get to us and we decided to call it a day and retire for sustinance before we had attached the supports. Unfortunately PJ's strong back is to short (by a long way) so my next task it to make a strongback to build the plug on, luckily for me I think I have the very thing in my store!
Costs so far plans £45.00 Materials for shadows £20.00 Time spent 6 hours
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Brian Quinn
11/27/2014 01:51:19 am
I am really interested in building a new R6M and really appreciate that you are sharing your endeavours on line. I have too have sent for a set of plans and hopefully we can share the journey.
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