Techpriest Enginseer field manual

Сage 5 - Drill holes, bending and even more cutting

Holes, so many holes, I drilled great number of them. Most were 4 mm for the rivets but I also drilled six 8mm ones for the bolts.

It was at that point exactly, when I dropped the idea of hanging the book on a chain through two holes on each end of the support aluminum strip in the middle cover. Instead, I used 2 cable clamps, true, not the way they were intended to be used, yet nevertheless effective. Then I used a hammer to bend the aluminum strips for the back cover, the mesh for the lock and to form the metal corners. I’m kind of proud with how they turned up, not as fine as I wanted them to be, yet rather good for a first attempt.

I carried on with processing the main paper body. Beds for the nuts of the wire clamps and holes for the bolts/lock had to be cut in it. So I separated it on to 4 layers, and cut each of them with a sharp knife as much as necessary, so the details could fit. My lack of attention almost got me in trouble. Few times I got the thickness of the layers wrong (in my head), but I managed to correct it in time before any cutting was done.

I was reassured that my concentration is on the blink when only my fast reactions saved my toes. The knife just rolled on the table...

And while replacing a lost in battle limb with a mechanical one would only draw me closer to the Omnissiah, loosing any part of myself in such a careless way would be most dishonorable.