- May 21st, 2011, 12:38 pm#324226
Just wanted to pop in and say that I'm building a Slimeblower. My main goal was to make a screen accurate pack along with the Slime Glider gun. I've been working on this for a couple months now on the weekends, taking time out for life and all. I started by pretty much throwing out all known blueprints and plans and doing my own research , finding found parts and drawing up my own plans based on those found parts. For now here's a few pictures I hope to finish the main tank and add it to what I have here:
Here we have the main pack mounted to an Alice pack frame. The two secondary tanks are aluminum with grey plastruct domes. The power supply boxes are folded aluminum, with aluminum heatsinks. The ball is two Plastruct 6" grey domes. Under the ball is the secondary slimeloader quick connect. A few things are missing here like the main tank, loaf pan, light boxes, and primary slimeloader quick connects.
The main tank domes. I made these by vacuforming them. They were renforced with fiberglass and then foam filled for more support. The wood rings are there to add support and keep the dome round while I was renforcing them, they also give me something to attach the center skin to.
Here's the main tank while I was fiberglassing the seam. The wood rings again give me something to attach the skin to and the zip ties pull the seam in between the rings. The silver markings indicate where the screws go. When all is said and done the screws will not show, since I countersunk them and they are currently under bondo.
I'll add more later.
Here we have the main pack mounted to an Alice pack frame. The two secondary tanks are aluminum with grey plastruct domes. The power supply boxes are folded aluminum, with aluminum heatsinks. The ball is two Plastruct 6" grey domes. Under the ball is the secondary slimeloader quick connect. A few things are missing here like the main tank, loaf pan, light boxes, and primary slimeloader quick connects.
The main tank domes. I made these by vacuforming them. They were renforced with fiberglass and then foam filled for more support. The wood rings are there to add support and keep the dome round while I was renforcing them, they also give me something to attach the center skin to.
Here's the main tank while I was fiberglassing the seam. The wood rings again give me something to attach the skin to and the zip ties pull the seam in between the rings. The silver markings indicate where the screws go. When all is said and done the screws will not show, since I countersunk them and they are currently under bondo.
I'll add more later.