Friday, October 23, 2009

Assembly

Eleven months after starting my research and assembly of materials, I'm close to having the prototype pressure suit assembled for testing.

Below, cutting old wrist cuffs off the suit.



Below, cleaning the PVC wrist wrings for suit union with pressure gloves:



Below, gluing PVC wrist wrings to suit;



Below, wrist wrings glued on and bound with hose clamps; the clamps will stay on for a week as the glue cures.



Below, the wrist ring glued on and secured with hose clamps, which will stay in place for a week as the glue cures.



Below, working on the neck seal.

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