Guess which it was!

Now I *know* this is a ghetto machine, and it's getting more so by the minute. If you're laughing *at* me (instead of *with* me - you know the difference!) then stop reading right now. You've had your fun :)

I've threaded the skate bearings onto my threaded rod. The internal diameter of these abec 7s is about 8mm. The threaded rod is M6. So I had to insert a shim. I used some PVC tubing that I had lying around, around my water rocket launch system that is. Another repair to do later. I've gripped the bearings in a nippy-wood-thing. I'm sure it has a proper name and someone please correct me. I should have given it a shave, shouldn't I! I forgot to give it a going over with the file - might have been to do with the can of stella glupping its way down the back of my workbench into the cd player and amp I have there :oops: No damage done, thankfully.

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This is glued on. I didn't see a need to remove it. It's made from realwood(tm). Pine. But you all know that. I did this because MDF doesn't have a grain and would probably snap if I tried to make a nippy-thing with it. I chose realwood because it has grain. In this case I *did* remember something from school, and made the grain go horizontally, perpendicular to the screw that serves to make the nippy-thing nip, so it doesn't shear. The glue is only on three quadrants, to allow the upper left quadrant to do its nipping.

So the threaded rod is in place. Do you think that I forgot to put the nut on before gluing stuff? Did you?? Well not this time buster :D

I used what they call a stud connector. It's a long hex nut. Virtually no backlash. Hurrah!

Here in this picture is the nut, gripped on both sides by white glue and some MDF, cunningly dremeleered into a shape designed to cuddle it. The nut that is, not the glue.

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And here she lies, ready for the morning zip up and down under the power of a black'N'decker! This is an 'ambient light' pic., which kind of shows the mood of the evening better than the crisper pic. that I took with a flash.

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Oh go on then, since you asked so nicely. This is right before I reinstalled the clamp on the rear nippy-thing.

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More soon.

I'm hoping to get a motor attached on Sunday. I'm going away for the weekend, so BCNU.