DOME CONSTRUCTION


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Step 1: Mark out your gore pattern with tape on a floor.

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Step 2: Outline your pattern with a high contrast tape.

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Step 3: Lay the plastic over the gore pattern and place weights to hold the gore during plastic cutting.

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Step 4: Remove excess plastic.

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Step 5: Gather gores in convenient location for taping.

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Step 6: Tape gores together with masking tape (if clear plastic) or duct tape (if Ag-Bag).

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Step 7: Cutout the top hole circle.

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Step 8: Spread out taped dome in preparation for taping in top hole circle.

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Step 9: Tape on final piece (top circle).

 

Step 10...Showtime.