Everything has been cut and and I’m ready to start construction, first step, have a practice run… All the pieces slot together so I can construct the box and check any fit issues without needing to glue anything. After extending the battery cable I realised that I have not allowed space for the on/off switch, a […]

The worst has happened, after all my trawling for solenoids, making sure it had a proper return spring and creating the board to fix it within the case I seem to have forgotten something important… The stroke length of the bolt!! Due to the clearance needed either side of the door to allow it to […]

OK, the finished product, wow it’s taken a lot to get here and I wasn’t wrong when I referred to it as a yellow brick road, at some points in this process it really has felt like I’d been whisked off to OZ… The case has come out better than I had hoped for with […]