Cutting the motherboard mostly was an exercise in patience as I was using a simple jig saw and there were quite a few tough angles.
Got there in the end and used some files to clean up the edges and corners
Welding aluminum myself wasn’t an option, but a friend of a friend offered to help so I went to work using pieces I got from a local metal supply store that sells discarded excess by the pound. I was able to get the correct size booster tube after a number of visits, as well as some box material that I could cut into all the brackets I need for both mounting the shell and matching the Phoebe wand cable port.
Unfortunately it wasn’t the cleanest weld job, but I’m not going to complain about someone being willing to help. I had to go in and clean up a few areas where it was interfering with the pack shell.
Also made the injector tube bracket and got tubes for the wand with hopes of designing my own pop mechanism.
Next up was working on the booster tube, frame, and ion arm assembly