We’ve made plenty of projects with gears through the years but this is the first time they will actually move and interact. That meant they had to be accurate without any fudging. A friend sent me a link for a simple gear making program a while back and using it made it easy to create the DXF files for the gears. I made five different sized gears all with the same sized teeth
It’s a bit hard to believe but we are at last nearing the end of the first phase of the NEB’s fun World project. We have seven more posts to assemble and sculpt to finish this stage of the project. Through the last months we’ve designed hundreds of CNC files. We’ve cut up more than a hundred sheets of plywood, tons of sheet steel and many sheets of Precision Board
I love it when installations are painless and quick – just as we plan. The four signs for the Cultus Lake Boardwalk fell into this category. To install we measured thing up and marked the beams, then walked the signs up two ladders, positioned then and bolted them into place with lag bolts. It took less than five minutes per sign to do the installation.
The flywheel for the ‘MARVELOUS MACHINE’ was a fun little project. Creating the file took a number of steps but it wasn’t overly difficult. The entire file was designed using EnRoute. The spoke vectors looked a lot like giant tear drops I designed one, then duplicated it and flipped it
With the bowling alley now almost complete we are ready to move on to the next phase of the NEBs project. That is the Pub area. We had done some preliminary renderings last year. The primary element was the giant still. At that time they were going to dig out a section of the floor to create a lower level and then build a mezzanine level above.
The four signs for the Cultus Lake Boardwalk are now nearing completion. Each colour of the sign gets a minimum of three coats of paint to ensure a long life and fade resistance. That’s a lot of cutting of the many colours! The ribbit ride sign now only needs one more blend coat of yellow paint on the lettering plus some eyeball details before it is declared done. The three Cultus Lake Boardwalk signs need two more coats of blending on the letters plus three coats of white on the borders. Hopefully tomorrow has enough hours to get the job done
The new MultiCam tech centre and office in Langley, British Columbia opens on Friday. That meant it was time to do a special delivery today. Grant and I loaded their new sign nd a few tools into the back of the shop truck and we headed down the road. Kelsey was at the office eagerly waiting for us to arrive
A simple electrical on-off switch would have done the job of turning my MARVELOUS MACHINE on and off. But a simple switch wouldn’t have told the story I needed to tell. My MARVELOUS MACHINE is ‘driven’ by steam. To properly control suck a divide we needed a mechanical throttle, much like what one would find in an old steam train engine. I had built a similar throttle for our train steam engine last year
The NEBs bowling alley project temporarily took a backseat to some other pressing projects but as they went out the door we went back to work on the last of the arches for the bowling alley. Today we reached a milestone as the last two of the concrete arches were hand sculpted today. There were twenty-six arches over the bowling alleys and another five arches down each side of the massive room, making thirty-six arches in all. We have five more beams to complete as well as twelve posts for the centre of the room.