Burningman 2012:

Fertility 2.0

Project

Mayan Tricycle

Santa Cruz Build Days Mid June 2012

Grassy uneven patch of ground.

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Placing a solid center post

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John pre-made a head/center junction piece.

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Using an old KE transit, John, Gwen (Who shot most of these photos) and wizzard started making a radially oriented platform to build on (why stoop to the ground?) Shortly afer we started Charlie joined us as well. Everyone had a job.

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John had laid out the platform in Auto-Cad. After placing 19 boards when we went to place the loast board it was off by 1/16' of an inch! Amazing on such a large structure!

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Playin'. Doing some not so deep dip between the rails.

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Higher Vantage point.

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The neighbors were interested.

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John at computer with gear teeth in AutoCAD

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Platform done, it's time to make teeth (waitin til monday for thinner wood for big arcs.)

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Looking out John's kitchen, he can see progress on the platform.

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Cutting Near the lines on a band saw.

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Charlie drilling 4 holes to make it easier to turn the piece of when in the band saw.

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John, showing wizzard how to use cutoof saw.

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Do the rest!

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John on router doing final shaping (after the band saw got us close.)

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Charlie took over the band saw. (He was dead set against doing it to start, but took to it FAST!)

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Laying out 13 teeth on the exact circle we drew on the inner circle of wood pieces. 13 is 1/4th of a circle-our first test to see if the teeth really do fit. Maybe a scosh big??? It's like 6:30 in the evening and there's a beach burn in SC we want to go to and a chance to tell people about it.

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Tomorow we'll test again with all 52 teeth we need for the smaller rings. If a bit long, we can adjust the size then. We're making 208 of them al togther (stacking 2 thick on each of 2 rings.) Should be a fun day!!

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Day 2 - Sunday - of the build days in SC. Elecktra joined us today also.

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Gwen's turn on the drill press

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Gwen marking gear teeth for cutting.

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Elecktra screwing the template onto a roughly shaped tooth gives it to John to Route and then unscrews the temple from the completed tooth.

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the second batch of 108 teeth blanks for the small wheel.

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Accumulating teeth.

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The scrap pile grows.

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Glueing two together to make thicker teeth.

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The beginning of gallons of glue to be used.

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