Thursday, May 22, 2008

Ta-Da!

Once I abandoned the dead end of heat-formed acrylic, the ideas for cold-forming have been coming thick and fast. Here's the result of the squeezer configuration.

First, the squeezer itself:

Closeup of squeezing mechanism:

Result:

Closeup of accuracy:

Soo....yeah. That works. The squeezer is a bit overbuilt. I could go with 2x2s or even smaller next time. And one bolt every couple feet instead of every 6 inches. Other minor improvements. Those may never be made, though, since I had a real brainstorm on an extremely simple way to accomplish the same thing. More on that another time, though. I'm going to use this for my next experiment.

4 comments:

  1. This entire scene appears to be taking place in some kind of...HAY LOFT, which is so, so AWESOME.

    Speaking of overbuilding, my husband recently built a "simple" rail for a toddler bed that involved 10 feet of doweling (is that a WORD? I mean one dowel, 10 feet long), TWO 2x4s, and 20 screws. And a bandsaw. AND a drill.

    Total overkill.

    Also, they sell those at Target.

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  2. Anything worth killing is worth overkilling.

    A hay loft would indeed be awesome. This is actually my under-construction current-porch-soon-to-be-dining-room. You see how cramped it is in there? Still acres more space than my actual workshop. Also 100% fewer litter boxes.

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  3. In case anyone is wondering, I asked him, "What are you going to use it for?" and he said, "...What?"

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  4. No, I said "Madam, will you tell me the use of a NEWBORN CHILD!"

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