hi everybody i am doing a live stream today where i've gotten some questions from tested patrons
about shop infrastructure one of my favorite subjects uh and actually just completed a shop
infrastructure build yesterday for those of you wondering why there haven't been a lot of
postings of one day builds it's because i've been concentrating for the last month and a half on a
big build uh of some spacesuits all those videos are going up very soon in fact uh it begins with
a pretty amazing video we're gonna drop in the next 24 hours give or take um but that has been
uh an all-absorbing project for the last couple of months at least so that's why you've seen a sort
of diminished output but i'm i'm back baby i'm back in the shop and starting to do some more uh
specifically titular one-day belts that actually happen within a day or so but today i have dusted
off my eagle moss ecto-1 uh we have completed much of the engine compartment and the chassis thus far
by the way we were at ghost core recently on the sony lot where jason and ivan reitman have their
offices and where all the ghostbusters goodness is produced out of and uh they had a completed
eagle moss ecto-1 uh it was a prototype of of course they would be having a prototype but the
size of it is incredible it is it's so awesome to see it all up and it's actually like i know i did
a bunch of weathering of the engine bay while i was assembling it i'm going to be layering in more
weathering before i start to bolt stuff together because the one thing i thought of their prototype
was that it was way too clean like the ecto-1 has got to be beaten up it's got to have some real
rust uh so i've dusted off the eaglemoss project i am going now i am on issue number 12 step one uh
stage 42 and i am doing some dashboard parts and i i'm also like i gotta say it's really nice to
to again wrap my head around this project for the first time in months uh i have
specifically eagle moss project management is a particular area i'm getting better and better
at for instance every time i get a new kit i immediately assemble a screw and nut uh assortment
tray that helps sort out all the all the tiny little pieces of hardware and then there's also
making sure you can put it in so you know what stage you're at when you pick it up months later
it only took me about five minutes to to reorient my brain on this uh so we're putting on the
antenna the antenna all right and that's one part of the antenna that looks like another part
there is a yup and i need a jeep oh oh there's two pieces here okay so there's that
and that drops in there and that is a bp p i've realized stands for plastic m stands for metal
i i'm a little i i'm a little um i feel a little dumb that it took me
a long time to figure that out but then that is not an uncommon state for me g uh
gp g one and then i'll need four of those for attachment to the dashboard two one two
three
four okay uh i'm going to get one on my phillips here
toss it up through there yes and then
you know i learned a lot about handling small parts just by watching some
watchmaking and repairing youtube videos watching the i mean because every part that a watchmaker
deals with is like sneeze and it's gone so watching how those folks do things like hold
tiny screws onto the end of their screwdrivers and you know use both magnetized and specifically
demagnetized tools in order to properly manage their parts it's really neat
okay uh that's the underside this is the over side that is that part so here we go
most of this has to happen with my glasses off because so near-sighted uh wait wait wait yep
yep i may paint this later let me do some more painting of this thing later
oh lovely um there's four screws that hold this on i hold to the axiom
don't tighten any of the screws when you're doing multiple screws for a single thing
you don't tighten any until they've all been started until all the threads have
started that could be a t-shirt i mean a very esoteric maker t-shirt
right anyone who asks about it it engenders like an entirely long conversation which is
i don't know that could be a good thing that could be a bad thing
okay they're all started tighten them all down and move on to step two step dude
okay lovely uh oh the switch right the switch plate um
so that is oh do they really put labels on these
i can't even read this hold on just a second hold on
ah let's see here i believe i did a tool tip about these um there we go wow
this is really funny um they've gone to the trouble
of putting labels on hold on i need one more magnifier
i really want to read these oh no that's not the right one hold on
oh there they are
i've done a tool tip on these magnifiers it's really really hard to beat
these head mounted magnifiers i've bought zeiss expensive zeiss surgeon lenses and
for model making i found these to be better no trashing those ice they're beautiful but
they were unnecessary considering how much magnification this thing yields here we go
okay now we now we're in business now we can see
riddle bar poodle bar topat blitz
yep so they've gone to the trouble to actually put labels but they're all nonsense
i for some reason i really appreciate that okay thanks for that diversion now we're going to put
these guys in do they all just pop in carefully remove each switch from the sprue and spread
the longer pin at the end of the switches into the eight holes of the switch panel
you may find it easier using tweezers for this yes i will um okay so
one oh my god i'm gonna sneeze and lose these three
four the questions today about shop infrastructure from tested patrons are really really great in
fact there's one i'm going to answer first and it's from an apartment an apartment dweller
and you know covering how to do making when you live in a small space is actually an excellent
question and it's one that we've all had to deal with and so i'm really glad to get a chance to
speak to it um i've had shops in you know as small as a six by eight square foot space um and
i've had shops as big as a couple thousand square feet like this one well i have a total of a couple
thousand square feet i'm utilizing for my shop about 500 450. which frankly is just not enough um
i'm starting to think that i may have to i'm actually starting to ponder to get rid of
my pool table to be fair um come on why aren't you behaving uh because i'm really not playing
a lot of pool and i think i could use the extra space i'm debating on i've had this
table for so long now almost 10 years um but yeah apartment dwelling where you have landlords and
all of that it's non-trivial uh and landlords get uchi when they see you building stuff
mine always did i certainly did okay i've got the switches
that is really pretty and am i right eaglemoss that these switches are all at slightly different
heights as if some of them are switched and some of them are not i find that really beautiful
okay bp two bp screws one and two and these go uh on the underside
facing outwards
here
right
yeah is that it yeah it is okay
let's get the wp oh you know what this so this is i think i have one more issue to build with
this and then i need some more from eagle moss because seeing the real thing at uh ghost core
was very exciting did i just lose a screw
oh nope there it is um seeing the completed one was really exciting and it made me want to
um barrel forward with this one okay the switches are in
yeah yeah what the wait
okay yeah i guess it is ah yeah it does have a slant to it okay now i need two ep screws that is
one and
two oh you cannot have enough tweezerman tweezers in your house uh
let's see this is the fuel gauge and this goes yep okay
oh man i cannot wait to do some high detailing of these gauges in
this dashboard once it's all assembled that is going to be very very lovely
excellent
and just a couple more steps and we'll be finished here with this step okay so the fuel
gauge is in now it's time for the little doohickey a battery indicator that goes in with an ep screw
and that's that thing and we'll get
let's see here where does this one go yeah goes there oh
okay now i think oh no there's one more piece here
finally the emergency brake and that looks like that no
wait a second wait a second
that's not the emergency brake finally for the emergency 42h what does 42h look like it looks
no and sorry it goes yeah it sits right there so do i have it somewhere else
oh wait no i don't that's not a that's not it that's not it those are done um okay wait a second
here we go
i may have to
that part seems to be missing somewhat so i'm going to continue on with the
assembly of the upper and lower dashboards and for those i need three lp screws and
then i will worry about the emergency brake a little later wow i only have three lp screws
that's clearly the end of that
okay um
so let's see here how does this work that goes like that and that goes like that
and then these come in like this
aha i see what i am missing
i see no no no oh that goes in there right and then
i am just a tad confused because i think i've missed a couple steps but i believe
i can still do an assembly on this and it will oh man that's going to be so pretty
okay let's get this going in here
and that comes back that comes back
right there's your actual switches amazing um and we'll get this going
aha i see right that little horn has to go oh okay
okay come on come on
yes
aha okay i see what your problem was that's it great oh
wow that was everything that little bit of a doohickey i just pulled to the side
okay dry fitting and putting in the first of three screws
there goes one
still looks good here goes the other outside one
and lastly lastly through a hogshead of real fire
um excellent
there we go that is the dashboard oh this guy oh i see what happened to that it broke off is
what happened to that okay so i just have to uh pop that out and fix that all right i've got a
couple of little doohickeys here that uh still needs some assembly is that the emergency brake
you know what i think that is oh it is it's just that they've shown it in such forced
perspective i was uh didn't realize what i was looking at excellent okay i'm not missing a part
i was like that thing seems way too big to be the thing that they're showing me but of
course it's a pedal e-brake like oh come on okay gonna get this one last thing in and then we are
good and finished with this step and ready to move on to the next one come on that's it almost there
oh yeah there we go ah well like i hope that was um i hope that satisfied your
your physical bob your three-dimensional bob ross that uh sometimes happens here in my cave
um there is the beautiful dashboard of our echo one
uh we only have one camera right oh we can do it on this one here let's take a close up
yeah
really pretty this is high tech we've got going on here all right