Savage's Fusion Generator

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Just a quick, small update to keep the ball rolling . . .

I applied glazing putty to the lower hose fittings to fill in the roughness on the top and set them aside to cure.

After that I went back to the CnCed parts. Took the upright supports for the base and dry fit them to the bottom disk, making sure that the tabs fit in the slots properly

Then, without even removing the uprights, I ran a bead of Weld-on on both sides of the corner formed where the two pieces meet.  Then I placed some large bearings I had lying around the lab against either side of each upright to keep them properly vertical.

     

I just worked my way around the base repeating these steps for each upright

Weld-on takes some time to dry and doesn't reach full strength for over 24 hours, so I gave those uprights some time to sit with the bearings in place so it would be rigid enough for me add more parts.  Once I was comfortable with how stiff the joins had become I grabbed the pile of half circles and selected the pair of largest diameter. I slid half of it into the lowest slots on one side of the supports

I slid the other half in the other side and made sure that both end joints made contact with each other easily, not requiring any force to press them together.  I had to shave down the inside of the half circles a little bit (not much) to get them to fit properly.  It's important to make sure they align vertically when you glue them. You don't want one side higher than the other. Once they fitting to my satisfaction I glued the end joints and let them harden up.

Because I had only glued those joints, and not glued the ring to the uprights at all, I was then able to rotate the ring, sliding it through the slots in the uprights, until the seam was aligned with an upright on each side.

I then ran a bead of Weld-on on both sides of where the upright formed a corner with the ring, top and bottom, gluing those two uprights to the ring keeping the ring seam in place.  One the proper orientation of the ring was established in manner, I went around and glued the ring to all the other uprights.

After that I followed pretty much exactly the same procedure with the next ring.  Fit the ring properly, glue the the ring together, rotate the ring so the seam is on an upright, glue the ring in place.

The second ring is primarily in contact with the uprights on the bottom, so I flipped the base over and rand my beads of glue on both sides of the upright from underneath

then I set the entire assembly aside to let the Weld-on cure overnight before I started applying any part of the outer skins