 | Parts to build two main feet
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 | Some details of cutting out the bottom plate. Corner holes drilled
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 | Corner holes enlarged with step drill. I drilled 1/8" holes around the perimeter
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 | Then the interior pops out easily
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 | The side cutout comes out by gently bending back and forth until it snaps
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 | I'm building the main foot channel the same way I did the center foot. I'm bolting the channel sides to the ankle before gluing in the channel floor, because I suspect my ankle is too wide. I wound up having to glue a strip of 0.040 styrene to the edge of the floor piece to make it wide enough.
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 | The channel floor and main plate have been attached
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 | Here you can see the strip I added to widen the floor piece
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 | With the foot still attached to the ankle, I added the curve supports
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 | I removed the foot from the ankle and glued on the other supports
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 | Then I glued the foot down to the base plate
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 | Here is another case of things being thrown off by the ankle being too wide. The too-wide ankle results in a too-wide foot; this makes the curve supports extend past the edge of the bottom plate.
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 | Front and rear faces added
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 | Top plates added
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 | The detail face. This is a 2mm base piece with 1mm pieces glued on.
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 | Detail face attached to the foot
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 | Argg! Another case of the width throwing things off. Since I had to make the channel wider to accommodate my thick ankle, the plates on the droid side of the foot do not sit flush with the foot. They are sticking out about a millimeter and a half. I'm starting to see how a person would be much better off taking steps to ensure that the ankle comes out to exactly 24mm thick. If you just glue up eight thicknesses of 1/8" material, the ankle WILL come out to 25.4mm.
If you build the ankle the correct thickness, all of these down-stream problems could be avoided.
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 | I re-made one of the plates with 2mm material and now it sits flush, more or less.
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 | Adding 2 layers of 1/2mm material to the curved side of the foot. I would have used one piece of 1mm, if I hadn't run out of it.
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 | Adding the detail strips around the bottom.
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 | This completes the construction of the feet. As with the other parts, there are minor gaps that need to be filled and sanded.
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