Post #801192 by TheLuckyParrot on Sun, Mar 8, 2020 8:42 PM

STAGE ASSEMBLY, PART 4

Progress made this weekend! The dry fit is complete for the front portions of the stage. The full assembly fits easily into the cabinet and I have added a front skirt to the top stage which will provide a little more coverage to prevent viewing of the underneath stage mechanical magic. I too the following photo and video before I painted the skirt, just so that it was more visible for the purposes of documentation (this post).

At this point I am tightening down the assembly onto the lower stage and making sure everything is reliably secure and permanent. Good thing, too. I am constantly having to make corrective tweaks that make things run even more smoothly. And the more smooth things run now, the less likely will be future mechanical failures.

The next step is to construct the backstage, which is mostly two triangular towers that go on each back corner. The rear right corner tower (as seen from the front) will include a boatload of electronic connections that will serve the purpose of maintenance and re-programming without having to take the final system apart.

First a couple of photos:

And then a video review:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9simXwwHxLA&feature=youtu.be