I decided to work on mounting my 3 axis skull onto a bucky body this evening. To start, the kit I have has a threaded rod that is a larger diameter than the rod on the Bucky meaning a 3/8-16 coupling nut alone won’t mount the skull to the body because Bucky’s rod is a 5/16-18 threaded rod. In addition to that, even if the coupling nut was the right diameter for both threaded rods, the head of the skull would be sitting a good 4 – 6 inches above the neck making the thing look ridiculous.
In a “hack” move, I decided to cut down the length of the two threaded rods by about 2″ each and would hammer the coupling nut down into the neck and hold it in with hot glue. This worked except when I was screwing the skull down into the coupling nut, I over-torqued the rotate coupling inside the skull and busted the linkage. It’s no big setback, but it is annoying enough I’ve decided to get in from the heat and call it a night.
Mistakes made in the heat of the summer make me 10x angrier than most other times.
After a few hours to cool off I took the 3 axis mechanism out and fixed the busted linkage. All is well.