Murphy's law and serious test in patience..

didn't plan any update before finished because I've been at the verge of that since my last post (since before actually), but feel like it with what happened today, again. I was literally finishing the working switch a couple of times over the past 2 months when something happened that brought me back quite a number of steps of the fan itself. Then today it fell on the floor, because the wires got stuck in my sleeve when I tried to comfort my cat who was in a bit of distress (she has dimentia). I didn't notice until it fell. Doesn't sound too bad and thought I could fix that quite easily despite the delicacy of the thin metal I used and not easy to handle either. But wasn't too worried, just kind of annoyed. It didn't go how I thought or expected however and might mean I need to make several parts again...

here's the last photo's before that happened:

how it looked before it went wrong the last of several times

making miniatures I'm used to challenges, like we all are. Comes with the territory right? They're fine and part of the fun, no matter

how not-funny it can be when they present themselves. But with this fan it's been a bit much unnecessary mishaps, too many of them when I'm (again) at the stage of the very last step.

recently when I was just about done the base broke in two.. seriously. And I had used 2 part epoxyglue for it, the strongest glue I know. But had to handle it a bit much because of some rigorous work underneath the base for the switch to work (long story). When it broke, the wires got pulled out, everything that had finally been in the perfect place out of wack. Couldn't get the little engine to start anymore either. No idea what the problem could be, even changed the battery just in case. Eventually had no other option than to check the connection at the back of the engine. This meant breaking apart the back of that. Connection as solid as ever though. Solved the problem somehow and could get all the wires in their right place and the switchparts where they needed. Which is a lot less easy as that sounds btw..

as you can imagine it's a serious test of my patience and determination. As if we don't display enough of that by simply doing this crazy stuff. This fan's already a lot more challenging than anything I've done before, besides the obvious, you'll read about some of that in my final post. Although I have crazy amounts of patience and even when something goes very wrong, I always continue happily and just try again and again. But now, I'm really not amused. I really thought I was able to photograph and shoot the video of it this weekend, but now I have to do some stuff to first repair some damage. Again. And possibly even have to make a big portion of the front part and base again.

last time, again happened at the point of finishing up, but when I tried to do something for my cat who was asking serious attention, the wires at the end of the cord got caught in my sleeve and before I noticed that happened it fell on the floor. Not fun, but I can fix that, so I carefully adjusted all of it and then all I had to do was adjust one of the black 'arms'. That didn't go well.. it needed a little bit of force because it wouldn't bend, which caused it to bend way too far causing more problems than visible in the photo. SIGH..

not sure if the Universe wants to see how badly I want to finish this, but that's exactly what I intend to do with a very satisfying result at that, if it's the last thing I do! Just so you know ;).

but for now I'm off to Murphy giving him my piece of mind about his crappy law! 😜