Bazza's Iron-Man suit build

[AsignObservatory]

Here's today's work. One shoulder bell with the cardboard trial beside it for comparison.

[Allie]

Pretty neat, Barry - very much like the finished product

[AsignObservatory]

Pretty neat, Barry - very much like the finished product

Oooooh it's a long way from finished product yet Allie! That's just rough chassis for now.

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GAHHH!! I must be exhausted. I spent most of the day in the hot sun on a cabless tractor.

I think it effected my concentration....

This afternoon I got all the way through the second shoulder bell only to realise at the end that I have made half of it the same as the opposite shoulder bell.... got to cut, bend, fold and weld another one all over again! What a waste..

There's the bit at the back that should have been made the other way around.....

[AsignObservatory]

Re-cut and re-made the second shoulder bell today.

[Allie]

Looks great - hope it's got air conditioning too!

[AsignObservatory]

Looks great - hope it's got air conditioning too!

I'm installing cooling fans.


I thought I'd pull a bit of a marathon tonight so I stayed in the workshop until 11pm, welding.

Back armour all assembled and welded up.

[AsignObservatory]

I got a tweet from a TV crew today followed by a phone call and they are coming out tomorrow to do a story on the Iron Man suit for television.

I quickly had to put humpty together again as I've had him apart to model parts for the steel build.



Now the workshop is all cleaned up, I got both shins cut out. Now to flatten, fold and weld.



All the large parts are done on big sheets, but the little stuff can be traced onto the scraps.



All the parts so far.

[ameerat42]

E-gratulations. What program crew?

[AsignObservatory]

Another day of TV cameras here, job done! Story mainly on the Iron Man suit, but a little on the observatory as well.

It will go to air next Fri at 7:30 on ABC1, then News24 over the weekend. Online from 8pm Friday.

For those of my overseas supporters, I will be receiving a clean copy for me to upload to You tube. You'll have to be a little more patient until I receive it and upload it.

[AsignObservatory]

This tool is called a brake. It is one of the tools some lovely person on the internet donated and sent me in the mail. It makes folding neat and straight lines so easy!



Tonight's work. Unfortunately I have run out of steel to do any more and I won't have access to a welder for some time so works will pause until that is remedied.

[AsignObservatory]

I LOVE DIE-GRINDERS!

Thanks to the guys who sent me the carbide bits and the grinder itself I got the centre of the chest armour shaped very quickly to fit the cover glass and housing for the arc reactor.

Four tabs to be welded on the ends to retain the glass housing.

[AsignObservatory]

Crikey I need that gas MIG! Parts are mounting up on the bench and I have no way of joining it all up without one!

Hopefully I'll be back to work next week and get a chance on the welder after hours. Contract ends soon so I may not have the job much longer and I don't know how much time I have access to it.

[AsignObservatory]

Tonight I got some of the thigh cut out properly and bent/folded into shape, ready for welding. I had to stop because the neighbors probably wouldn't appreciate me thumping away with the hammers past 9pm....



Good fit for my long legs.

[AsignObservatory]

Here it is folks! My Iron Man suit on TV on ABC One's 7:30 ACT report.

I did mention quite a few people, including the guys who wrote the pepakura files, modified them, folks who donated stuff etc.

I was interviewed, filmed and photographed for a couple of hours and gave credit to a lot of people, even going so far as to say I thought it was important that they were mentioned. However, the first edit was 8 minutes and had to be cut down to 4 minutes. They did a fantastic job but only so much can be kept off the cutting room floor.

Thanks so much to all involved in helping me get this done! I can't wait to get this into a kids hospital ward!

God bless ya all!

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2014-1...nberra/5927124

[nimrodisease]

Great video Barry! It's great to see the gradual process.

[AsignObservatory]

Thanks John.

[Duane Pipe]

Thanks for sharing the Video.
I like your skills using primitive hand tools Barry.

Iron-Man V Astro Boy.

Soon Coming to a Theater near You!

[ameerat42]

Bazza.

[AsignObservatory]

Cheers gang.

Today is my last day of a two and a half week break. I've had no access to a welder so I've been madly cutting and bending more parts ready for welding.

Today all I could do was grab the die-grinder and angle grinder and get some clean-up done on the existing welding.

Hopefully tomorrow after work I can get a bit more welding in.

[AsignObservatory]

Got a lot of one leg welded up today after work.