Assembly

Here so much awaited moment, that where one will conquer space, the moment which involves a little anguish and much amazement. But patience, it will be necessary to arrange still a little before inviting your friends.

1-To prepare the parts of connection

Connect the panels, by putting coast at coast two edges. The parts of connection are bolts of 8 mm section. It will be necessary of them for you 78 in all, 14 cm length 42 and 36 of 12 cm, and as many nuts and of broad discs (and even a little more, one mislays some with the assembly). Thus you must twist the bolts according to a variable angle according to the place where they will position. Best is to block them in a vice, to thread a metal tube and to twist with the hand. If not to place them overhanging and type with the hammer. Here one can be satisfied with an inaccuracy of approximately 10 degrès. That are the angles: 1 18 bolts of 14 twisted of 60 degrès (connection of the walls between them) 24 bolts of 14 twisted of 52 dg (connection top of the walls to the bottom of rhombuses 2) 24 bolts of 12 twisted of 23 dg (connection top of rhombuses 2 with the bottom of rhombuses 1)) 12 bolts of 12 twisted of 29 dg (connection top of rhombuses 1 between them) In pratique2 series: the long ones and hard twisted and the short ones and little twisted

2-To bore the amounts of structure

To bore holes of 12 or 14 mm through the amounts and to 4 cm of the edge (one can make a gauge). In all the vertical uprights of the walls 3 holes with 10, 100 and 180 cm of the bottom of the wall (external of the panels) In the high amounts of the walls to 25 cm of each angle In all the amounts of the rhombuses to 25 cm on both sides of each point

3-To assemble the walls

For all the assembly it will be necessary scales for you or small a échaffaudage (one does not go up well high), a mallet, keys of 13, the drilling machine in the event of final improvements, can be screw clamps...
Two people at least, and more will go more quickly.

To draw up 2 panels of wall coast at coast and to assemble them 2 vertical uprights with 3 bolts very twisted, holes of the amounts towards the interior of volume: they will hold all alone. To pass a disc, to hang a nut with 1 or 2 turns but do not tighten them.
It will be necessary can be to force these bolts with the mallet, or to initially pass them in an amount before approaching the second panel, finally one manages.
To continue with the other walls to buckle the circle

Now locate the center of the zome and set up any good: each interior angle must be to 2,415 m of the center and the overflowing bottom of the walls of approximately 2 cm of the flagstone (or platform). If not balance as well as possible.
It remains to fix these walls on the support: with ankles for a flagstone or coach screws on wood.

4- To assemble the rhombuses

Even technical if not that one works on scale
To place a rhombus 2 in the angle formed by 2 panels of walls, it holds only once the hung nuts, you could be suspended on the point if you dare. Continue with all these elements 2 then pass to the rhombuses 1 which slip into the angle formed by 2 rhombuses 2. Assemble the los 1 and 2 and the los 1 between them; continue until the end. The installation of the last rhombus gives final rigidity.

For this last crown it will probably be necessary to force a little so that the holes fall well opposite, to draw per Ci, to push by there, to give the mallet, at worst using the screw clamps, if you did not tighten the nuts the unit is still flexible and should buckle the zome to you (except errors of measurement).

Last completions: shake a great blow all the structure, it will find its best place. Then begin again starting from bottom by tightening the bolts now and adjusting the elements at best until the top.It is done, that has to take the day to you but not more.

Finish while climbing briskly until the top. If the zome does not fall, you can rely on the future, all that will be added thereafter will still come to consolidate it.

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