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eric on Nov 25th 2008 Geeky Things

Servo will be HUGE!

Hello and welcome, won’t you?

Here is a box.


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What could possibly be in this box? It could be anything. Oh just imagine all of the wonderful possibilities! It could be money or women or presents for all of us!

But no. It’s not.

What is it?

It’s nearly all the pieces I need to make a real life Tom Servo! Check it out!

And so I got right to work. Zipped off to the store to buy the rest of what I need (paint, glue… screws… corn….green peppers…chili…….onions……….) and got back to the apartment and started drilling and cutting.

I’m following the instructions here with a few modifications.

I’m not going to detail the process, since the link above does that pretty well. But tonight, I drilled a couple of holes, ran the string, etc for his mouth, cut out and rough sanded some pieces around the engine block and basically figured it all out.

Tomorrow I need to get some finer sand paper, a couple of nuts, some more paint (have to find a hobby shop) and a few odds and ends. I’ll be painting tomorrow. It’s supposed to rain, which kind of sucks for painting, but hopefully, it’ll be ok. I used to paint scooter parts in my bathroom in the winter – that worked out pretty well (oddly enough).

Things should look a lot more like Servo tomorrow. Woo!

If Sir Thomas Serveaux can be completed by Thanksgiving, he shall be the centerpiece of a wonderful feast!

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