I have 6 days until our drive in screening of Ghostbusters. Time to get my butt in gear. I'm hoping to have my pack painted and assembled and I'll do the electronics later. I was on hold because I didn't know how to mount the n filter. Putty and epoxy? Fiberglass and screw/epoxy? I still need to make sure I can put in the e cig parts so I'm leaning more towards how Letmebleed mounted his. But that's for tomorrow and Friday.
Tonight I attempted to fake an ugly weld to connect the ion arm and the booster tube. I used this photo as a reference which I saved a long time ago. I'm assuming it's a Julz photo since I've stolen every other reference from him.
I cleaned and prepped the parts and then I cut a piece of 1/2" aluminum to the same size as the big resister holes on the ion arm and I "tacked" it in with a few drops of gorilla glue.
I mixed up some Apoxie sculpt and started making little round balls and started placing them on making it look like a weld. And then it just became a big mushy blob. But it IS supposed to be ugly and that it is!
It'll be ok. It's going to be painted and mostly blocked anyway.
I also used some left over and stuffed some into the booster tube to stop the plug from wiggling. I'll put some more from the other side when I take it off to paint.
Looks more like someone stuck used chewing gum in there.
I also filled in some of the chips from the cyclotron holes that were pre cut.
Tomorrow I'll take off the last of the aluminum parts and figure out the n filter conundrum.