Got a bit more done yesterday and today, panels insides have been painted and today I fitted them, will paint the outsides over the next day or two. Also got the bracket I made for the door rail painted and also the lower part of the doors, came out fairly well and its starting to take shape. Still have to get the door seals and with the Easter weekend it will likely be mid week before I get them. Also have to make handles for the doors and also a guideway for the bottom of them, at the moment I just have them resting on delrin pads.
Brett asked me to run the roadrunner at 20m/min to see what it would do. It did it but the metal guard on the head rattles about a bit. There seems to be quite a lot of metalwork missing as there are quite a few brackets and fixing points and nothing to fit to them. I think if all of the original guarding was in place it wouldnt rattle about so much. No big deal really as this speed is impractical for doing any actual cutting as the spindle would need to be a lot faster than even it was originally, however having the rapids as the original machine had is nice.
Here is a video of it doing the roadrunner, make sure you dont have the volume too loud as it might sound like an earthquake
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gQ1y6I2GWMAlso a couple of pics of the side panels in place and the doors almost finished.
Hood