Slow Geodesic Dome build

[mamos]

I haven't added everything up yet but it will be around the £350 mark

Paul

[doofaloofa]

That's great.

How many hours so far?

[mamos]

I think I could build a dome in about 45 hours

Paul

[doofaloofa]

The second dome would go up a lot quicker than the first IMO

[mamos]

Had a bit of a nightmare getting the base perfectly round yesterday in the rain.

It is a 15 sided circle and the know the measurement from the centre to each of the 15 points needs to be 2250mm but try as we might we could not get all points to this figure and ended up chasing a bulge around thee base. It turns out after much head scratching that the head of the nail used to hook the tape measure onto was too big so the tape was under reading by 5mm. it doesn't sound like much but trying to make a solid circle 5mm smaller all round just ain't gonna work. once we discovered this and made allowances it when together.

So thee base is now round and level and painted. I tried to drive some stakes down into the ground but they would only go about a foot into the ground so i am going to make up some steel stakes to anchor the dome down.



This size dome is quite efficient when it comes to wastage. This is thee kind of waste we get from making the triangles.



paul

[mamos]

Everything is go for erection of the dome today. I will post pictures as soon as it's done

This is how it looks now



Paul

[diggernotdreamer]

I love an erection, cue Doofa

[doofaloofa]

^Low hanging fruit

[mamos]

How's this for an erection?



paul

[Green Aura]

That looks fantastic! I'm so jealous.

Next year, then we can compare photos.

[diggernotdreamer]

nice erection

[doofaloofa]

I concur

[mamos]

Some pictures of the build

















Paul

[Flo]

Whole new meaning to doing a jigsaw puzzle!

[ina]

ENVY! I'd love one of them - don't think it would fit into my wee garden, though... Are they quite wind resilient?