That darned third dimension... July 18, 21, 26, 29 meetings

Sorry...not much blogging time lately.  Last two weeks were dedicated to some driver practice and working on the arm and accumulator.  Progress is slow and steady and that darned third dimension up and bit us as we couldn't quite fit our intended arm hypotenuse length into the 18"x18"x18" starting configuration.  Since our arm lengths have depth to them to house our forthcoming accumulator we wound up shortening the hypotenuse a few inches.  "Fit testing" after showed, however, that we would still be able to reach the 30" goal as intended.  After that, on the 26th and 29th we continued fleshing out the accumulator, getting it all to fit, getting intake tread mounted, etc.  Slow work indeed, but progress non the less. More details, photos, etc coming soon.