It was a very busy day with all kinds of small projects on the go plus an important meeting with our new clients for an upcoming project. In-between I kept the router and plasma cutter busy and even managed to get little welding done. The submarine bones are now welded together and the dashboard is set in place. Building the little submersible will be different than most of our builds because the interior needs to be completed first and then we’ll do the exterior. I started by defining the structure of the floor. This initial frame also sturdied up the entire structure and provided the mounting points to attach it to the sea horse base. Two big eye bolts were welded to the top for lifting it with the forklift. They will stay in place permanently. The top fin and tail surfaces were also routed today while I was doing other tasks. I absolutely love our reliable CNC machines that can work unmanned! By tomorrow night the sub should look a whole lot different! Stay tuned…
Stuffing the trailer.
We finished loading all of the features and signs for Vala’s Pumpkin Patch into the transport trailer today. Amazingly, it all fit with three and a half inches to spare! Just like we planned. It is always a bit unnerving to lift each piece up into the air, balance them into the edge of the trailer and a heavy duty sawhorse and then slowly ease them into the trailer. We use custom built pushing rig to stuff each piece to the front of the trailer. The process is repeated again and again until the loading is completed. Next Monday I’ll be in Nebraska to help them do it all once again in reverse. It’s going to be fun! I’ll be sure to post some pictures of the reverse process there.
Stand down!
We stripped down last year’s IAAPA booth to the bare walls and signs. Everything will get a fresh coat of paint and then be aged down to look old once more - in this year’s colours. This morning I found the time to create the cutting files for the submarine stand and the CNC plasma cutter made short work of cutting the half inch and three eights inch thick plate steel . With everything so precisely cut it didn’t take long to fit and weld the pieces together. The submersible stand will bolt into place on the same threaded studs as we used last year, saving a bunch of work on that process. With the sea horse themed stand complete I can now begin the fun job of building the submarine. I can hardly wait!
