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Took the whole head assembly apart, it was a real mess. The heat block and sensors are done and need to be replaced. The heat break I was able to remove which is nice as it's a titanium one, needs some more cleaning the PETG out of the threads though. The heat sink was covered in thermal compound but cleaned up really nice with some IPA. I have a spare heat block I could use but I'll need to order sensors anyway so I'll get a nice new one. I have the steel heat break that came with the kit last year as well so I have choices. Once the new parts arrive I'll need to rebuild the printer with some new plastics I printed in Galaxy Black for added sparkle and get it all calibrated and running again.

Very much so, twice if not 3 times as thick, varies in places. I use a fiberglass filler as it is stronger than bondo, then go over the fiberglass filler with a thin layer of bondo as it gives a smoother finish. Fixing ABS is easier as you don't need to fill and paint (although you can add some ABS paste into cracks, sand, compound and polish, but most don't) Normally gluing a pieces of ABS behind is all you need, although you can still get cracks a little further from the original crack so adding a long piece of ABS behind is better

Big Brown Box Day happened this weekend! I have a set of ATA stunt armor and will be slowly working on this project soon! I'll be sure to ask plenty of questions and share photos along the way! I'll also see if my local garrison has plans for armor parties in the future too.

Awesome. Thanks for the quick reply! Even managed to get a Troop in during the Pandemic.

Just hang tight, it will be updated. Congratz on approval and welcome to the Legion and FISD

Amazing how time flies when you are having fun

Congratulations, Glen, consider me very impressed!

Makes me want to log back in to imgflip and start meming again... Anyways, have some basic memes I threw together.

Sorry for the lack of updates. I will post more soon! In the meantime here is a sneak pack at the Pugman style ESB kit I am working on making. Some of these parts are reworked casts from ( and with permission from ) Mark at Shear Tech .

I've been doing a lot of work on the helmet and associated electronics over the past few months. I wound up buying the typical hearing and voice assist as well as an iComm. I like them, but getting them in my helmet felt a bit bulky to me. Since I've been doing some light electronics work on the side, I figured I'd see if I could piece together a simplified amplifier system. The following images are what I came up with using some simple amp breakouts and designing a PCB for them to mount to. This was from my first run of PCBs that I ordered to test out the design. There were a few things wrong with them, including the 3.5mm jacks being the wrong layout, but it mostly works. This combines voice assist, hearing assist, and fan control into one roughly 3"x3" PCB. I have some revisions I plan to make, which includes realigning the modules on the PCB so that it's longer than it is square such that it can fit in the helmet hump along the neck better. I also want to do away with the JST connectors and have them just connect to pads along the side of the PCB so that it's as flat as absolutely possible. In the meantime, I went ahead and molded the hearing assist mics into the ears of the helmet. I took some black ABS 3d printing filament I had and created some ABS paste so that the holes in the ears to accommodate the mics are basically invisible. Need to do some ear cleanup around that area, but I'm probably going to wind up repainting my helmet anyways so no big deal there. Anyways, I'm pretty excited about the electronics in the helmet. I also have some wireless Qi chargers that I plan to embed in the padding such that I can set the helmet on a stand and have it charge without having to plug anything in. You can see the beginning stages of that circuit below also.