Optimus Prime Pen on the moon base... Part11-2

11-2 Clone the sattelite receiver & button switch (continue)

Before we make the plastic resin, thinking about the resin is brittle. 
By this shape (very thin) I need reliability. Then I decided to add reinforcement.

Prepare steel wire size 1.5 mm, 40 mm long.

 Before cutting as 40 mm. look at the left end, it needs the angle cut. 

And the right end need little angle too.

 Prepare 1.0 mm steel wire for next reinforcement.

 Drop some super glue, wait it dry. (do not worry if glue drop to silicone. 

it won't attach silicone at all)

 Drop super glue to another side (by this photo is not correct, I took wrong side ^^) 

Now get ready for resin process.

mix the 3 color (white, yellow, blue) to be close to the moon's color.

Keep pushing brush into grooves and always push resin up on top.

place reinforcement back to mold stably. Cover them with little resin.

Close the mold, wrap it tightly. Wait for 10-12 hrs.

look at the result, for me there is no problem.

After being immersed in Sodium hydroxide for an hour 

(do not leave them for longer, it may loose some detail) Then clean them up.

As we plug this during the process of making mold. So now we need to resume the hole. Start at 1.0 mm, 1.5 mm of drill bit.

resume the previous shape.

This one also need to resume the hole by starting at 1.0 mm --> 1.5mm. --> 1.8 mm. 

(do not jump the drill bit size, it may break)

final hole

Ok now to compare the master and our clone piece by piece.

At the end of the clone do not need resin because of we will plug it into the moon easier.

Which one would you like more ahh??? ^^

 To see the close up.

there is just ok for me. Then we are now finished the clone of Satellite receiver. Then let's make the hole on the moon for it.

Drill 2 holes with 1.5 mm. one for Satellite, one for wire of LED light. 

observe... I make some angle (more nice to me)

I prefer the smaller wires, but I do not have right now, soon will be. 

 Now complete with this part. Let's see the overall.

I fix it as this view, but you can rotate it to front, but I prefer this view. 

It looks more natural. How does it look like? ok? or not?

hope you guys still enjoy on this part.

next part (part12) is to assemble all modules into the moon.

Thanks for watching

Bye for Now! ^o^