Sandbagger's Iron-Man builds - Now in STEEL

[sandbagger]

Re: Bazza's Iron-Man suit build

No mate. It's cold-rolled mild steel only 1mm thick. It's sooooo soft! Doesn't need annealing.

 

[sandbagger]

Re: Bazza's Iron-Man suit build

Cleaning up the welds a bit more tonight. Getting the edges tidy on the cascading segments at the back of the helmet.

I've tried getting into these corners with a file, a flap disk, a Dremel and sandpaper. It's hard work and very slow going. Can anyone reccomend a good tool to get into this? An electric reciprocating mini-file would be awesome!

 

[stigmorgan]

Re: Bazza's Iron-Man suit build

Perhaps you could fashion your own reciprocating file, all you would need to do is weld a needle file to recip saw blade and there you have it.

 

[mrjbarl1]

Re: Bazza's Iron-Man suit build

Use an angle grinder with a cut off wheel to remove the bulk of it, and them maybe a file or a dremel to finish it.

I did mine a little different; I only tacked my seems together as I built it to get the right shape and then I supported the inside and cut it back off to weld it up and smooth it out. I also did this because I'm making that particular part functional.


Anyways, be careful if u use the angle grinder. It can get away from you really easy and end up making more work than you had in the first place.


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[sandbagger]

Re: Bazza's Iron-Man suit build

Ta guys.

Today I got a few hours in the shed finally. I got half way through the job and broke another bloody bandsaw blade. Same as before, cutting beautifully for hours then snaps when I turn it off and it begins to slow down. This is costing me a small fortune in blades at $40 a pop!


Anyway, I grabbed my aviation snips and went manual. I'm going to get very strong hands like this.

 

[stigmorgan]

Re: Bazza's Iron-Man suit build

Very nice dude loving the progress on this.

 

[sandbagger]

Re: Bazza's Iron-Man suit build

I'm so confused by man. At the same time that we are chopping each other's heads off, we have a spacecraft orbiting an incoming comet, about to land on it as it awakens under the sun's increasing influence.


Pretty deep yes?


Well then, here's another. A random internet acquaintance whom I've never met and who wishes to remain anonymous, sent me advice, photographs, technical knowledge, support, encouragement and contacted me to ask if I would like him to build an arc reactor for the centre of Iron Man's chest. Based on a single measurement from me and a handful of photos, he built this in just a few days.


Not only that, he wanted no money, no return favours or even fair recompense for materials or even postage.


While there are some horrible humans out there, there truly are some wonderful ones too.


Best of all, I have the honour to have interacted with him, even if it was from afar.

 

[stigmorgan]

Re: Bazza's Iron-Man suit build

Holy crap dude that is supreme, looks perfect.

 

[sandbagger]

Re: Bazza's Iron-Man suit build

Cheers mate!

Time to start modifying! My mysterious benefactor has provided me with an excellent bunch of hardware to fit all my lighting and power into.


Using my drill press as a vertical lathe, I used the tip of a spade borer to part the outer ring from the rest of the perspex disk. The inner I might use later but for now it's not needed.

Similarly, the centre of the aluminium disk underneath is not needed, as I need to allow a clear path for lighting to the front from the source in the back. For this, I just used the bench drill to stitch-drill it all out, then hand-filed it clean. I left four tabs to screw it to the bottom of the reactor. The tabs still need tidying up a little to make them neat.

Here's a quick pre-assembly. I need to make some more bits before the lighting and power goes in.

 

[sandbagger]

Re: Bazza's Iron-Man suit build

I got one boot all spot-welded up today. Fits good and hinges well in the middle.

 

[PukkaLemons]

Re: Bazza's Iron-Man suit build

Your work is inspiring keep it up =)

 

[sandbagger]

Re: Bazza's Iron-Man suit build

Your work is inspiring keep it up =)

Thanks mate.

My very skilled uncle turned some brass rings to my specs. I got a little time to assemble them today.

Brass rings assembled and fitted into the reactor.

 

[stigmorgan]

Re: Bazza's Iron-Man suit build

Mmmmmmmm shiny :-D

 

[sandbagger]

Re: Bazza's Iron-Man suit build

Today I cut the guts out of the front plate and fabricated my own from a piece of pipe and some flat steel strips welded and bent.

Tonight, drawing up a paper template to mark holes to be drilled around the circumference of the front ring. The movie accurate one has elongated slots, but I only have a drill, not a mill so my holes will simply be round.

 

[sandbagger]

Re: Bazza's Iron-Man suit build

Arc reactor front ring punched and ready for drilling. Sometimes I wish I had some decent machinery to do all this, but it's kind of cool to see how well I can do with hand tools and hand-held power tools.

Holes drilled. A bit of polishing and some socket heads and it's ready to go on the front of the reactor.

Trying to remain constructive at work after everyone else has gone home. Lots of waiting for the public to leave the park before locking up. Sure beats wasting time watching the idiot box. Got another hand plate, the second boot and part of a collar plate cut out. Using aviation snips buckles the sheet steel no end, but I'll planish it back out on the anvil.

Assembly nearly complete. Still to go: drill out the bottom of the reactor and install power and lighting. I think I'm going to re-do the little square transformers around the outside before I wrap them in copper wire.

 

[sandbagger]

Re: Bazza's Iron-Man suit build

Making progress on the second boot.

Cut the bottom out of the body to allow for the bight and power going in later, then lined the inside of the reactor with a metal tape specially designed to reflect spectrum in laboratories. Good to know people in the game. You can see already what the tape is doing to the sunlight hitting it. Once I have lighting in there, it should bounce around like a *******.

Making the little transformers for the particle accelerator on the front of the arc reactor.

Starting to fit transformers on the reactor.

 

[sandbagger]

Re: Bazza's Iron-Man suit build

Assembling the parts for the particle accelerator on the front of the reactor.

Assembly complete and ready for lighting.

What do you think of THIS for a nuclear power source?

 

[stigmorgan]

Re: Bazza's Iron-Man suit build

Dude that is supreme.

 

[MXB5]

Re: Bazza's Iron-Man suit build

That is amazing! Keep up the great work!:thumbsup

 

[sandbagger]

Re: Bazza's Iron-Man suit build

^^^ Thanks dudes!

The collection grows! Very soon some of it will be wearable!

Apparently as I can't get any palladium or unobtanium, I have to come up with my own new element to power my Arc Reactor. Bazidium is currently being looked into....