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eric on Nov 25th 2008 at 6:46 am Geeky Things

Servo will be HUGE!

Hello and welcome, won’t you?

Here is a box.

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!

15 responses so far

15 Responses to “Servo will be HUGE!”

Courtney says:

November 25, 2008 at 7:24 am

happy. dance.

eric Reply:
November 25th, 2008 at 9:50 am
very. very.
Zac says:

November 25, 2008 at 9:12 am

That is cool, I remember my MST3K, it was Manos, hands of fate. The movie was way lame, but the jokes and skits were great.

eric Reply:
November 25th, 2008 at 9:50 am
Oh man, Manos is pretty much impossible to get through, even with the riffs. It might just be the hardest.
Rati says:

November 25, 2008 at 9:34 am

Eric, your recent acquisition brings you to a whole new level. Awesome!

eric Reply:
November 25th, 2008 at 9:51 am
Perhaps… but a whole new level of *what*?

Rati Reply:
November 26th, 2008 at 7:00 am
Well, I wasn’t quite sure the word I was looking for, so I just left it out.

Maybe;
awesomeness?
geekdom?
awesome geekdom?
Ryan Beggar says:

November 25, 2008 at 4:28 pm

oh my lord the awesomeness!
this means of course we need a turkey day mst3k episode. just to make the universe perfect. just think: it is within our power to make the universe perfect. yay for us!

It’s Huh-tom. The H is at the beginning.

eric Reply:
November 25th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Oh for Thanksgiving, I’ll be playing the season seven turkey day bumpers. We’ll also watch something or other, i bet. Woo!

Huh-lick me!

Rati Reply:
November 26th, 2008 at 7:03 am
Thank-you for making the universe perfect, at least for a day.
scott says:

November 25, 2008 at 6:36 pm

Maybe it’s just me reading way to much into someone’s blog but I’m beginning to think you like MSTK. Dunno, maybe it’s just me.

eric Reply:
November 25th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
Hey now! Stop reading between the lines! Sometimes a Servo is just a Servo.
Ryan Beggar says:

November 25, 2008 at 7:53 pm

Sweet! between turkey day and jaime’s many pecan pies, life will be good!

CROE, mike! honor the umlaut!

eric Reply:
November 25th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
Do you know that I somehow do not have Mitchell? We were going to watch it today.. but no. No Mitchell.

I checked the corner. He is not on it.
Ryan Beggar says:

November 25, 2008 at 8:45 pm

weird no mitchell… i have the rhino disk i think. i hope?

why would anyone want to do that with mitchell joel? my my my my GOD!