Yes thats it mike the photo shows the steps left by the adaptive.
I did get a couple of cans out this afternoon and gave it a quick squirt, With either standard or high build primer the surface is good enough to go straight to paint
High5 on th eleft, bare metal in the middle
Standard grey primer
All a bit academic now as I've hit it with the Dremel as well as a bit of body filler to fillet the joint between feet and bed
Talking of the feet this is how I did them. Popped a bit of scrap 3/8 x 1" black bar roughly in the vive, flattened the top, adaptive and two contour passes to get the oblong shape and then a couple of 3mm holes with a split point stub drill. Repeat 3 times. It's a lot easier than filing buttons
I know some are interested in how long these things take, the computer says 3hrs 28mins for the bed, I would say it came out closer to 4hrs total which makes 3D printers look a bit slow and there is also no clean up required should I have wanted to machine this as a pattern rather than a part.
While we are still covering the bed I noticed that images of existing engines on the net did not have the lip running around the back of the bed which was shown on the GA drawing that I had initially found and started to work from. Once I found out that the booklet contained details of all the engines I bought that hoping for some clarity but it was just the same drawing.
Typical existing engine
Extract from GA
I can only assume that it was found easier to produce the casting without the lip at the back due to the overhanging cylinder bracket and it was omitted for production. Which is what I have also done, can't get replica detail like that simply by multiplying by 25.4
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