Maxidome

Maxidome
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Skills	construction, grinding, drilling
Status	Active
Niche	Mechanics
Purpose	Infrastructure
Tool	No
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Frame construction

Tubing

• 30 x 'S' : 1.57m x 22mm steel
• 40 x 'M' : 1.82m x 22mm steel
• 50 x 'L' : 1.86m x 22mm steel

Hubs

• 46x 40mm steel ring
• 25 x 6-way rings
• 6 x 5-way rings
• 15 x 4-way rings

Fasteners

• 7 mm wide zipties

Container construction

We need one or more containers to be able to transport the dome in. Before we can build a container we need to figure out what the optimal design would be. A wooden crate? Multiple wooden crates? Plastic bag? Duffelbag? Plz help think

Design decisions

• The dome will be 9m in diameter
• The tubes will be 22m steel tubes
• The inner ring of the hub will be a 40mm external diameter steel ring, with a height of 25 mm.
• The outer ring of the hub will be a 75mm external diameter PVC ring, with a height of 50mm.
• Both ends of a steel pipe will be equipped with a 8mm hole, with it's centerpoint located 8mm from the edge.
• The outer hub will be equipped with 24mm holes.

TODO

Frame construction

• Acquire missing tools needed
• Settle on size
• Settle on tube diameter
• Settle on hub design
• Determine total length of tubing required
• Find supply of steel tubing
• Design hubcap
• Print hubcaps
• Purchase tubes
• Select zipties
• Purchase zipties
• Cut tubes to required lengths
• Drill tube ends so zipties can be fitted
• Create assembly plan
• Assemble in back yard
• Settle on container solution

Cover construction

• Request a sample of hermetix from supplier
• Validate Hermetix as viable covering candidate.
• Decide on covering material
• Find supply of covering material
• Extract required shapes from material
• Decide on how to bind the shapes together
• Create cool showoffy idiopolis artsy design for covering
• Find the appropriate rivets to mount in the cover in order to rope the covering down
• Find a method to cut holes in the fabric in order the mount the rivets