Uh...maybe dumb question: assemble, prime then paint? Prime, assemble, paint? Prime, paint, assemble? I'm thinking A/P/P as the wrenches are gonna scar the finish...

I just figured the tighter the joints, the sturdier it would be.

Just want a good finish w/o wrench bite marks.

Couple of observations:

Thumbscrews on the top 'rotor' do not cut it. You need them TIGHT. Eye screws are the way to go. You can leverage them with a screwdriver and cinch them down good. Thanks to the guy who suggested them. I still might drill the holes all the way through and use clips.

The bottom pipes are right where your feet need to be most of the time and are very annoying, uncomfortable and eventually painful. You almost need a decking surround the same thickness as the pipes so your feet don't get catholic school punishment.

Still, it is a great tool and has made my current project much easier on my body and easier to perform. Love it!

I have already stripped out one of the threaded holes in the top rotator. It's hard to get them tight enough so that the field doesn't move under pressure. Gotta come up with a solution for that. I drilled the holes through and am using a giant clip pin but it's to loose as well...

My idea of enhancements...well one, anyway.

I stripped and wallowed out my thumbscrew hole, so I tried to enlarge it to accept a large cotter pin. That was a disaster with a handheld. Asked a friend of mine (gunsmith) who had a drill press to drill the thumbscrew hole in the shoulder of the joint where there's more material (thanks vid!) and also a hole that goes right through both that accepts the cotter pin nice and tightly. Now I can lean on the playfield or whatever and that thing is NOT GOING ANYWHERE. I found myself having to retighten the thumbscrews over and over and still the field would rotate a bit as I worked on it. Now I just tighten the thumbscrews enough to hold it in place while I insert the cotter pin. MUCH more stable and zero slippage.

Thanks to vid and the other fella that published the plans.

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Yeah, I used the eyebolts or whatever they're called. Those thumbscrews in the first incarnation in this thread just didn't make it.

Thanks again for the how-to. I have a field in mine right now that will save me enough time to bring it to SFGE.