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Did two things today. Began installing the fence around Heritage Park and successfully printed the light globes for the gate columns using the newly arrived clear resin. I drilled the base for the watchman's tower light leads and cleaned up the area where it's going to finally sit. I should have masked this, but didn't and had to scrape all the ground cover from the spot.

My column separation is not even. The long fence sections are 4.86" long so I tried to space most of them to use the full sections. But where I couldn't I positioned the column to have the fence break at a natural panel break. The laser cut fencing has vertical bottom supports at every scale foot. I removed all but the ones at the main panels. As it is it means aligning and drilling a lot of holes.

For the first section I attempted to mark and drill the holes more or less freehand and the fence line was not to good. I fixed that one. To glue the railing in place I used a piece of strip wood at each end to add as an attachment point.

Heritage Park 1st Fence Piece

I wised up in drilling the holes for the second fence panel. I used a steel rule to set a nice straight line and positioned the fence above it with just enough clearance for the drill bit. I started with a 0.032" carbide drill and then opened it up wider with a 0.036" using an Archimedes drill.  I taped the rule and the fence panel so nothing moved while I did all this.

Heritage Park Drilling Fence Holes

I didn't glue the next column in place until I had the fence in it's holes. This was I was able to get a nice fit… much better than gluing the columns in before fitting the fence.

Heritage Park Fence Progress

By the end of the session I started putting the first section for the back right oblique corner. I couldn't put the gate columns in place until I got the lighting system complete. I can now proceed with that apace because I was able to print the globes. I decided to use no pre-coat again, and it worked perfectly. I only need two globes, but here's all that I printed. Because of the shape I had to use a lot of supports around the perimeter.

Heritage Park Light Globe Print

I'm glad I ran another load of columns since I dropped two on the floor and broke of the sphere on the top, which disappeared somewhere in the ether. I will paint them tomorrow and use them.

For the illuminated globes, I'm going to insert the LED into a brass tube so the light won't leak out anywhere, but the part it's supposed to. I'm going to get the tank soon.

Away from the job I drew another part that's going to be 3D printed. I'm printing six of them since that's what will fit flat on the build plate. It took a bit of labor to get the lettering aligned on the arch. Print time is 16 minutes.

Screen Shot 2021-02-04 at 10.39.16 PM

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  • Heritage Park 1st Fence Piece
  • Heritage Park Drilling Fence Holes
  • Heritage Park Fence Progress
  • Heritage Park Light Globe Print
  • Screen Shot 2021-02-04 at 10.39.16 PM

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