Miniature OUA opening day is Approaching

[Lindyhopper49]

Just got through a big construction day... fingers crossed the miniature OUA league will be able to hit the field at some point next week!

I will post pictures and updates soon-ish

I have finished all the teams (some need bases)
I have finished the Band for my school (queen's university), and some fans (me and my posse in particular)
finished the trophy that we will be playing for.

it is going to be awesome (i hope)!!!

[Reginald Rutledge]

that's great. Are you gonna try to do anything on TV or you just gonna do pics?

Reg

[Lindyhopper49]

I will do some Youtube vids too

[Lindyhopper49]

this project has been a long time coming.

I bought the wood for the rails a while ago.

I convinced my father to help me out, because he is a very good craftsman and I didnt feel line cutting my hands off with a saw...

we wanted to make sure that everything was squared off so we went to the shop that my dad works at and used their milling machine to make sure that the ends were square...then used the planer to get everything completely squared off (the edges are so square that they are sharp).

we had to lay everything out on the kitchen table (the table isnt long enough so we had to do one end at a time)

[Lindyhopper49]

here are the holes for the bolts.

we drilled and counter sunk, using a drill press, on the side rails, then drilled through length wise into the end rails. then on the end rails we drilled down through the side to make a spot to get a nut onto the bolt.

[Lindyhopper49]

getting every thing clamped to make sure it says square

[Lindyhopper49]

Cut out a spot on the end rail to put the control box and got the pan in and level.

secured the pan with number 4 screws around the edges (it got a little bit off level toward one of the endzones, but not too bad.

More pictures to come!

[Lindyhopper49]

just got my power jack, motor, switch, rheostat, and led indicator light all wired up! my first adventure with soldering was a success!

I also finished the magnetic pylons and my chain gang equipment.

tomorrow i will hopefully get the field cover down and work out the best location for my motor box (I am going to put the paper confetti out of my 3 hole punch on the field to see what location gives the best activity pattern on the board with the fewest 'dead' areas)

AND I bought the collapsable legs for the board... just need to put on some more frame pieces to mount the legs properly.

I cant wait for my season opener! there will be pics and video for sure!

[roller]

You can also use talc powder instead of confetti. Vacuum when finished!

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