Not updated this in a while,
Progress on 360s upgrades for next year have started, Ed's offered to take up the task of machining my new grade 5 titanium drum on his CNC, which saves me the time doing it manually if at all its possible lol, meanwhile i've put in some time machining the new Hardox 500 teeth pictured above... same method of attachment on the new drum as the old one as it worked without any flaws... but it takes ages to machine hardox.. theres about 7 hours already gone into those bars and there about half done... no tooth profile, and need cutting down to length etc...
Also, i'm changing the drum axle for more grade 5 ti... as the current one is solid silver steel... weight thats now going into the new drum (going up to 4kg instead of 3kg last year).. The material for the shaft turned up today... pictured below.
Also the top and bottom armour will be changed soon for 3mm titanium... as the old top was 3mm stainless which weighed close to 1kg!
More updates soon hopefully, as i'm aiming to get this finished for the end of october.





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