Ready !!

Three right battery boxes in Ali are finished now.

Reminder

just to remind all of you visiting my parts build blog; if you have any questions concerning my parts, feel free to ask me whatever you want. 

you can ask me via the blog in giving a comment. no one else can see this except myself. simply add your email adress or whatsapp or fb name. i answer to you asap, if you are a registered member of the r2 builders club.

Continuum

it is going on. i took some hours of my free saturday afternoon and continued on the ali legs. welding in the inner support ring parts for the shoulder hubs.

then adding all sheets together and welding it completely. in the end it looks like this:

now another grinding job...

 

Leg welding

 Just an impression of my work...

Missing parts

...i had to wait some days because of some technical problems with the lasercutter machine. now it works and i could pick up the needed parts to get at least the ali legs done. They made twice the amount of parts i needed in Ali. But no steel ones...

here they are...

Additionally i was missing a pair of Ali side Covers for the Center foot.

On them i changed the position of the two holes for a better fixing of them to the foot.

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Some.new Side greeblies

I found a shop, that is.pressing in the threaded studs into the Ali side greeblies. Here is a First Shot of them. Looking pretty good to me.

FACTS

 

Here are some pictures of the Belgian Meeting..

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A big box

...full of parts and droids...

almost all parts are stuffed in for facts in gent, belgium.

Last preparations for FACTS

tomorrow is a convention called facts in gent, belgium.

i will drive this evening to my vacation house in south netherland and the next morning with my oldest daughter to facts. 

bringing some of my droids and r2 parts with me, i hope this day will be great fun for the two of us!

can´t wait to see again some of the other builders that i sometimes only know via the net.

here is the link to their page:

  https://facts.be/en/

Legs

i couldn´t do very much, only welding some stripes onto the leg sheets.

some parts are missing for whatever reason, so i wanted to order them at my preferred lasercutter.

but he told me that their lasercutting machine wasn´t working at the moment. damn´!!!

Running out of wire

it just happened...

i ran out of welding wire. ali welding wire to be precise.

so i changed to welding steel parts. but very soon i saw that there were some parts missing, so that i can´t finish those r2 parts too. not good!!

i immediately ordered some new spools with welding wire for the ali parts. and luckily they come one day earlier than announced. very good!!

but my biggest concern was/is, that i haven´t got enough time to continue on the parts at the moment. my enterprise is full of parts from various customers, that need to be sandblasted. so work is before hobby and i am working like crazy to fullfill the time frames of my customers.

not good!