{"id":71,"date":"2007-06-09T00:00:22","date_gmt":"2007-06-09T05:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scope-eye.net\/?p=71"},"modified":"2008-09-18T22:20:37","modified_gmt":"2008-09-19T02:20:37","slug":"fourth-and-fifth-attempts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/?p=71","title":{"rendered":"Fourth and Fifth Attempts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The third version of the chest block part had a few problems:       in particular it was prone to       <a href=\"http:\/\/1-4-4.scope-eye.net\/models\/Projects\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_070609_chest_v3_1.jpeg\">warping<\/a> and it didn&#8217;t       have the holes on the bottom of the chest block drilled out, or       even marked.  As a result I decided to remake the chest block       part from thicker stock, and drill out the holes before       assembling the bottom plate to the rest of the chest block.<\/p>\n<p>I got as far as assembling the left-side part for the fourth       version of the chest block before I realized that the Blender       mesh I was &#8220;unfolding&#8221; to produce the part template was crooked       in places.  To correct the problem, I started over with a new       Blender mesh for the fifth version.<\/p>\n<p>Drilling the holes &#8211; two rows of five holes, evenly spaced at       3.25mm between centers, proved to be a bit of a challenge.  In       the early attempts, I tried lining up the drill bit with the       template markings on the part itself by eyeballing it, using a       straight-edge guide to help the rows come out straighter.  That       proved difficult: with only .75 mm space between the holes,       small errors were too easy to spot.  To help make the drilling       more precise, I cut a set of guides from styrene strip, to line       up the part at the correct point along the drill press&#8217;s       straight edge.  The result was a noticably better set of       holes.<\/p>\n<p>Once the v5 parts were assembled, I used left-over plates that       I&#8217;d cut out for the v4 parts to reinforce the inside of the v5       parts: 1mm thickness was enough to make a fairly strong part,       but I felt that the parts would recast better if they were 2mm       thick.  The parts are not yet finished but at this point I&#8217;m       confident that I won&#8217;t need to start over again.<\/p>\n<h4>Cutting and assembling the parts:<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_070609_chest_v5_1.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_070609_chest_v5_1_thumb.png\" alt=\"1\" \/><\/a><a href=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_070609_chest_v5_2.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_070609_chest_v5_2_thumb.png\" alt=\"2\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_070609_chest_v5_3.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_070609_chest_v5_3_thumb.png\" alt=\"3\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Drilling Guides:<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_070609_chest_v5_4.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_070609_chest_v5_4_thumb.png\" alt=\"1\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_070609_chest_v5_5.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_070609_chest_v5_5_thumb.png\" alt=\"2\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Chest Parts, Assembled and Reinforced:<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_070609_chest_v5_6.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_070609_chest_v5_6_thumb.png\" alt=\"1\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_070609_chest_v5_7.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/model-data\/1_100_Zaku_Kai\/zakufz_070609_chest_v5_7_thumb.png\" alt=\"2\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third version of the chest block part had a few problems: in particular it was prone to warping and it didn&#8217;t have the holes on the bottom of the chest block drilled out, or even marked. As a result I decided to remake the chest block part from thicker stock, and drill out the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}