Aetheric Neuralizer Vb

Bah! I forgot to post the details of how I made those copper rods that separate the front and rear assemblies and reveal the Aetheric Resonator to the eyes of the audience.

Recall that one of the rods must be hollow to allow a power wire (depicted as a red line) to be run through it. That is the lower picture in the diagram below. The two short pieces of threaded rod have been drilled along their axes to form threaded bushings. The copper rod simply rests between the faceplates of the two major structures, held in place by tension provided by the other three rods as depicted in the upper picture of the diagram below.


The outer rods were made by cutting copper pipe to about 9 inches in length and trimming all four to the same size using a table sanding machine.

The three solid rod cores were made from 12.5 inch lengths of half-inch threaded rod, and were attached to their copper sleeves by sliding each one into a copper pipe and nipping it between two nuts, one at each end. The rods were carefully adjusted to get equal lengths of thread at each end before tightening the nuts, and the nuts were only tightened until they fixed the pipe in place in such a way that their flats aligned. This was done by laying the assembly on a flat surface and adusting the nuts until the whole thing didn't rock. Then the nuts were thread-locked using thin-formulation cyanoacrylate adhesive.

Each rod was carefully inserted in one faceplate and fastened using another nut. Attaching the opposite faceplate was an exercise in annoyance as the faceplates are distorted and the rods point inward and so must be gently coaxed into place by springing them outward. The bushings had to be be screwed back until the copper rod could be carefully slid into place and then they had to be turned by hand to extend them and lock the tube into position. It was a trial.

Care also had to be taken to ensure the entire assembly didn't twist, which would produce a corkscrew effect that is unattractive and so not desirable.

And that is how I made the spaceframe rods.

I also polished the copper using a cloth wheel and a special copper abrasive before I assembled the rods, and I applied a coat of Carnuba Wax to them afterward to prevent fingerprints and corrosion.