Update: ready for final paint!
I plan to do the yellow and red detail paint panels and the Scribble logo on the side today.
The magnets BARELY hold it on that console, but they hold. I think the number should be doubled to eight.
I had to make a bushing to adapt the switch to the knob. A piece of 1/4” copper tubing was sacrificed for the cause. (This took nearly as long as making a new knob out of aluminum…)
Here’s my attachment solution. It works.
wiring made more socially acceptable.
Side view of the assembly clip thing.
Battery box mounted (make sure you don’t interfere with the spring! I need a way to keep it clocked properly…
repainted the knob. It didn’t survive rework with fitting the copper spacer etc. Weathering of the top cap was serendipitous- just handling it so much did that. I satin cleared that and the gear to keep the look.
slider knobs painted. The black wouldn’t cover the silver “chrome” paint. There’s like 47 coats of black. And it looks like it.
magnet test, fully loaded… it barely holds.
Clicking solution- 3/16 stainless precision pin glued in the skirt with a corresponding notch in the body.
It still holds, even with the added weight of photon emission!
And here’s where we are at now. Just the color panels left to do, the text and some weathering. Maybe a few orange dots on the top edge…
Overall, I’m very happy with it. I had a vision of the “clicks knob” activating the lights, and I have it! Four clicks- 0,1,2 position just click; 3 turns on one light and 4 has both lights on.