I
took a nice walk around the foot trails near my apartment. This may have
been the most interesting part of my day and was certainly, without a doubt,
undeniably, 100% the most mosquito filled part of the day. And to date,
the most mosquito-ey part of 2014.
I didn't touch the pictures up or even do any color adjustments.
This animation was meant to be a panorama shot but Google animated it rather than splicing it together. I find it hypnotic
This was the first cement block I saw
There were a lot
The trails must have been popular at some point
Enough
background.
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16
gauge steel wire was purchased to maintain the exposed ends of the bungee. The original ends were crimped with steel
wire but a heavier gauge.
Steel wire and a cutter
The
rear pulleys were released after having twine threaded into the eyelets by
forming a basic hooked needle from the steel wire.
Steel needle
Twine threaded through the pulley eyelet
Testing the twine to make sure the pulley would come back out
With
the bungee no longer tensed it was easy to unknot the loose end. The tape was neatly trimmed and the end was
folded over on itself. A length of steel
wire was wrapped around the doubled end by hand then tightened by using
pliers. This was repeated for the second
end.
Trimmed tape
Hand-wrapped wire
Pliers were needed to continue wrapping
Nice and neat
Rotational view
The
bungee was not removed from the tennis ball hammock so the bungee remained in
place.
To
do:
- Mount PVC in usable fashion
- Build then mount trigger + handle
- Attach release mechanism
- Test
- Refine
- Decorate
- Document
Journal
page
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