Android robot time!
I was planning to make this about 12cm high, but the bar and tube would have been about £40 alone! So im going for a more reasonable 8cm ish high.
Got some thick wall tube and some bar, 45mm diameter.
Cut and turned the body down to the right length
cut a shoulder into it for the gap between the head and the body.
onto the head, hacksawed it to size and then flatten it on the lathe
cut a shoulder on that so it sits inside the tube body.
drilled and taped the middle so I can hold the head on from the bottom.
Holding the head the other way round, trying to dome the head as best I can roughly
adding a bit of thread to hold it lower down so I can shape the whole thing, looks like a wastegate!
slowing the lathe down a bit and shaping it by hand, a bit dodgy but not too bad.
and left with something like this
only a rough finish on it so far, but the fit is good
more tomorrow