Viewport Retaining Rings


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Viewport retaining rings

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Rough cutting

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Finished rough-cutting

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Drilling the center hole

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The hole is now drilled.

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Is that a nice cut or what?

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The rough-cut ring

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Machining one face of the ring.

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A nice shiny viewport retaining ring.

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Here I'm having the computer and stepper motor cut the interior hole.

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Here's the difference between a human cut versus a machine cut

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Next step was to transfer the bolt holes on the sub to the viewport rings.

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Here is the outline of the viewport frame as well

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Transferring the paper markings to the viewport ring.

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Drilling the holes in the viewport ring.

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And one ring in place!

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And another.

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The same procedure was used for the front viewport ring as well.

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