Ok guys, so here we go. My buddy came over tonight with the broken arm and all the supplies we talked about to fix it. It went together pretty well. I think I had more time in prep then actually drilling and mending
So the scariest part my friend said was the hand so we started with that first. Drilled a hole for a pour spout, started with a small drill bit and worked our way up enough to get a small funnel stuck in it
Drill bit through the inside
Next I prepped the gauntlet with some tape and then began drilling. He liked the threaded rod idea. So I drill a hole smaller then the rod and tapped it
Next up, we wrapped and covered the fragile greeblies with foam
Spun the rod in, perfect.
Ended up cutting the rod to length, then making a "primitive" jig to hold the arm vertical so we could epoxy the hand to the arm
Now working with glue and gloves I kinda skipped a few pictures of progress. But I waited 30 minutes until the epoxy was hard. I know with loctite, it says it takes 24 hours for a complete cure. But this gorilla glue 2 part epoxy said only 30 minutes
We debated on waiting until tomorrow, or trying the resin tonight. I think we both were anxious to just do it and get it over with. I know I probably wouldn't have slept thinking if it would have worked or not
I left out, it may be in the pictures but he brought some beans to measure how much resin to mix. It worked out pretty good with the measuring cup
Anyway, I mixed the 2 part resin and began the pour, it kicked so fast!! I ended up dumping it before it completely cured and mixed another half batch.
This screwed up our bean count, but I lucked out and measured how much resin was left before I dumped it, so I made up the remainder and poured
You see everything was good, the whole project went fine!! Here I am thinking man I hope this resin doesn't get to hot and pop the epoxy joints and have resin pouring everywhere...
So confident with this project and on our last pour, I began to slowly spin the arm around like a roto job. Fine piece of cake, until it came rushing out. There must have been a pin hole some where (my buddy did end up finding it) and when I roto cast it she leaked out and down the gauntlet. (Behind the wrap)
I had a little bit left in the cup so I used that as reference of work time before this stuff turned hard as a rock
We quickly began striping the Saran Wrap and foam off. And washed it with sponges and simple green ( I love this stuff)
Don't know how I took this picture of the unwrapping because we were rushing like all hell trying to get the 30 layers of wrapping off..
In the end it cleaned up very well, we went over it 3 times checking and cleaning. We really lucked out.
But 2 hours and 48 minutes in (had my watch recording our time) we were beat... the last 10 minutes of cleaning before it kicked and turned rock hard was alreally anxiety provoking but we worked as a team and got it done!! But now we can joke about it
Beaten by the fett hand below
A job well done, thanks to all you guys help here on the rpf! This wouldn't have gone so smoothly with out you all.
Thanks!