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Quick update
We (Stanley,Wife and I) worked until 2am last night, but got a good bit done.
We got suit a's shoulders done...both PLS packs roughed out and suit b framed.
We also did as much mocking out as we could of the helmets as we can without the spheres...which will probably show up wedded since I am now out of town for the holidays.
Sorry no pics or video right now, don't have the files handy.

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Now fully Skinned!

Well folks...the MARK IV, Ver 4 EMU/EVA suit Alpha is skinned out as of.......
NOW.

The SCLCS is remounted correctly...and is prepped to house all the electroincs we'll be mounting up a lil later...it even as an access hatch!

shot a super quick and crappy vid. Had to kinda cut it short...guess why? (the answer is on your speakers!)

State of affairs.

As promised, here is a State of the Suit Address.

Yesterday Stanley and I met with Brian, the engineer who is working with us on the MARK IV.
We got a shipment of fresh shiny bearings in, and Brian was helping us make some presice mesurements and then laser cutting the spacers and mounting hardware.If that ain't building with science...I don't know what is.

Here are the bearings freshly unwrapped.
While pretty damn close to exactly what we needed, they where not ready to go straight out of the box. the holes you see in the pic are not in fact holes...they are divots for lil plastic tabs..so we had to drill them through. We also countersunk them so that the hardware we used to mount them would be flush. This resulted in a fair amount of Aluminium shavings in the bearings and races....so I spent a good while taking them apart, cleaning, re-lubing them and putting each ball bearing back in them...one by one.
Then with a little tweaking and adjustment..they got mounted on the HUT...

Next steps are to begin sleeve construction and finish the HUT covering.
Overall the hardest thing was keeping the bearings away from Stanley...

MARK IV, quick update.

Well folks...we now got roller bearing for the sleeves...
this weekend we will finish the skin on the HUT and start the sleeves.


In other progress notes, the bearing system for the waist is getting a little tweaking from Brian, our engineer.
We also have the gloves and boots in hand...although they need a lil dressing up.
Still waiting on the polycarbonate spheres to SHIP!!

Update on the MARK IV, Ver. 4

As promised, here is a quick update on the status of the construction of the EMU/EVA for L5.

We have all the structural Shell Shock down, and this thing is tough!
How tough you ask? Welllll....it survived a 2+ foot fall onto concrete with nary a scratch.
I thought Stanley had a hold of it...Stanley thought I had it...but gravity had it...boom crash and my heart stopped.
No damage...I am again impressed with Shell Shock.
The only draw back is, it is difficult to get a butter smooth surface because of the shape of the suit.
This is not a failing of the material, but of the shape of the suit. As the Shell Shock dries, it is still a lil fluid, and runs down the curves of the suit a bit. This causes some 'texture' to appear. I think we could overcome this by building the suit up and sanding it...but that would take more material than I think we can afford to buy. Therefore we will be adding a skin of fabric to the shell using the same stuff we will be making the softsuit from.

Ok...enough jabber...here are pictures!!

Here the HUT has the PLS (Primary Life Support) and the SLSC (Secondary Life Support Controls) mocked out.

Here is a front view...the hyper observant will note that the SLCS on the front looks a bit crooked. Yes it does. That is an arifact of the it not being a perfectly square box...and the fact it might be mounted a lil off.
Shut up....It's a mock up!!

As you can see here...when worn it looks better...also now it is me that is crooked so there.

Side view as worn....

Here is a shot of me kneeling in the suit...movement is good although it is getting heavy...around 15 lbs so far.
Also done...we got the mounting points for the arm bearing done, as well as the helmet mount ring. We also figured out how we are going to make the helmet snap in place...which is gonna require a bit of hardware manufacture.Also need the spheres to actually get SHIPPED!!
A quick Video from the workshop fitting.

Version 4, MARK IV

IMAG0009, originally uploaded by duncan_the_monster.

Suit is starting to take shape!!
More tomorrow..promise.

Work orders for today.

Ok...today is gonna be more work on Suit A. I need to finish prep for more Shell Shock, and prep the PLS for mounting. Still waiting on the polycarbonate spheres to show up so I can start figuring out mounting for the helmets.

At some point my new phone is gonna show up, so I will have to handle that.
Still waiting to hear back from Headhunters about possible freelance gigs.
Haven't got much done on my Dieselpunk timeline...well nothing hard noted, lots of thinking and rough sketching out.
Hope to get some stuff written out on that later tonight.