OK I always get asked to post pics of my building progress. I usually forget while I am building, once I get into a grove of building I forget all about it until I am finished. Well I have taken some progress pics of a large column I am building right now.

First I get an idea looking at A LOT of pictures, then I get a list of what I will need and call my people at Plastructs and spend about $120+ in parts.

This customer left it up to me on outcome of this tank, so I kind of over done it alittle on the building of this one. I have started with a 5 inch tube, glue the cap on and have started the landings.




After I get these million pieces on I let then dry, and I started on the bottom flange. This is a very time consuming part with a lot of individual pieces that need to be put onto place.



next it is time for the flooring on the landings. This is the second time I am using the screen for a floor, I have always used solid sheet and cut to the shape. To get the perfect shape for the screen I have a old piece of 5 inch tube, I put the tube on the screen and cut the shape with my knife. from there I glue it to the frame and trim the edges.



The next day I will start the railing of the landings. I usually just use the hand rail from plastructs but I wanted to try a new method this time. I am going to make my own railings. So I counted out another million individual pieces out of 1.5mm rod. Each one is glued into place with plastic weld and then I apply a small amount of super glue after the plastic weld has cured.


What you have seen here is probably about 30 hours of work so far. There is a lot of time planning and cutting the pieces you want. No rushing anything on these jobs, all custom no plans
Will continue after lunch I am hungry

Jason

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wow! thats pretty damn sweet!! super work there man,

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Why is "phonetically" spelt with a "ph"?

... It's better to be silent and thought a fool, then to speak up and remove all doubt

The complex of Newgrange was originally built between c. 3100 and 2900 BC,[2] meaning that it's aproximately 5,000 years old. According to Carbon-14 dates,[3] it is more than 500 years older than the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, and predates Stonehenge by about 1,000 years.

amazing work as always jason

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Brandon

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once again dude i am super impressed by your talent
you are going to make some body very very very happy.

Ok now I am going to add the lifting points can not remember the technical name for them

I know some people just drill 2 holes and run a tube throught the tube but I have to be more technical, so here is how I do them.
Form the lifing ponts


then I plastic weld them to the column.


you can see I have added some stiffner around the lifting point this gives strength and some detail





Here is where I left it last night, 4 nights in a row working til 1 am what a week
more to come

Jason

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That's amazing Jason!! In Holland we have a word for this, "Monniken werk", roughly translated as Monks' work. Refferring to the copying of books by hand one after another before the book printing was invented.

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Remko

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Just incredible !!!

Superb details. One of the reasons I bailed out of my tower construction (from 2 years ago!) was an inability to create realistic platforms. I was using plexiglass discs, but in fact almost all real towers use a screen mesh flooring similar to what Jason shows. Even the Plastruct railing seemed a bit "out of scale" with reality. The piping, flooring, rails, etc. appear almost "dainty" on the actual towers because of their enormous size. Our gang of idiots will tackle another one some day...

Really nice post and job on the column. Very informative and educational.

And a lot of plastruct pieces going together there.

Robert

Ok time for doing the bottom detail. For the bottom piping I wanted it to come out from the bottom and exit the side of the tank. I start with a small drill bit and set up to a 3/4" .



I let this set up for about a hour or to so the abs plastic has time to fully cure hard. Then I will get a clamp out and clamp the other side over night. This I let set over night because ring is pretty hard and does not bend very easy. I could place this ring in a glass of boiling water to bend but just to bend this using this method would not be worth the time, so I just clamp it down over night



the next morning we have a nice ring that is bonded to the tube.

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