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07-29-2010, 07:50 PM
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That is a cute one. Glad you can pull it up. Joiseygal does great work.
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07-31-2010, 02:19 PM
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She really does do great work.
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08-23-2010, 03:31 PM
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Glad to be able to help. Be sure to show us when you are done.
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08-27-2010, 07:34 PM
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LOL Well, that will certainly make this prop a bigger challenge for you. Can you retrieve them? Or attach something in their place?
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08-28-2010, 05:26 AM
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Lol I will have to try something different. The garbage man has already come and gone.
I was thinking of drilling a screw through the center of each nob?
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08-28-2010, 05:33 AM
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Whatever you do, it will have to be strong. That part of the prop takes the most stress. I can't remember exactly what it looks like but I was wondering if you could get a bolt fastened to it somehow, or a piece of narrow metal piping that could be bent? Because it will have to sit at an angle. Go to a hardware store and see if they have any type of springs or cylinders that will fit on there really tight and then screw them in also.
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08-31-2010, 07:52 AM
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Chris, when I made mine, the metal post was smaller than the diameter of the PVC, and that was fine. The range of motion of the metal post is actually too wide for what I needed. If I bolted the PVC to the post, it would wildly swing back and forth, putting a lot of pressure on the PVC and eventually break it.
I made it so the larger diameter PVC sits on top of the smaller post, and it sort of randomly rocks back and forth - like a pencil inside a paper towel tube. The plumbers tape (that took so long to adjust just right) is what kept the PVC from falling away. Also, when I attached the skull to one of the PVC posts, I didn't firmly attach the skull to the post, but instead drilled a larger hole inside the skull and just set it upon the post. That made the skull head randomly rock in various directions as it was shaken back and forth. Some string in the back of the skull ensured the head continued to generally face forward and didn't spin around, which it really wanted to do. These gave a nice random motion to my grave grabber, not so mechanical. I hope this helps, or did I totally miss the mark?
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