Well I just finished making my first greeble for this build: The flight stabilizer. Like aforementioned, I used the prints from
RafalFett and adjusted them as I needed. I decided to use a 3/16 shoulder bolt with a .5" shoulder and based my 3d drawing around the use of that bolt which best suited the specs in the blueprint.
The dimensioned drawing of my 3D model.
Made out of aluminum, this shoulder bolt needed to be knurled at the head. So I used my lathe.
And a knurling tool to make this:
Now to make the main body, I had a piece of 1.25" aluminum bar stock rolling around.
My DRO (digital read out) stopped working after I did a major clean up on the lathe so I am going to have to replace that. This had to be machined the old fashioned way: with micrometer and a pair of eyes.
Here are the parts after a quick polish and bath in the ultrasonic cleaner
I tapped the threads into the main body and now the shoulder bolt can simply be installed into the main body with an allen key.
Completed Flight Stabilizer.