It took a bit longer than I had hoped to order the steel for the DIY excavator project. The shop was a bit slow in getting us the official quotation, so we weren’t able to order until after the Songran festival. But the steel arrived yesterday, mostly cut:

So that is what $500 of steel looks like. It doesn’t look much like an excavator yet. But then again we haven’t started building yet.

Being a tropical country, the very first thing I want to do is to give it an anti-rust coating. Then the drilling and welding begin. Well… after looking at the pile of steel again, I decided we need to get a bigger drill press. Is it just me, or does this remind you of the old show “Home Improvement”? (MORE POWER!)