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The big "wheel" is built, it should be plain sailing from here....lol
  Couple notes: joining the 2 circles is not to hard, remember the sandpaper to put lead on square pegs and all will be fine, just don't try to force anything, if a peg is not going in it's hole....just get your good reading glasses out and see why, something always is out of alignment if it's not going in.
  When you get 2 circles joined, the resulting structure will be flimsy and crooked as a snake....Don't worry, the next step is installing the "spokes" that run from the center hub out radially, these slot into the hub but have 2 holes each that pin the wheels into alignment. Much the way a carnival guy must feel the first time he assembled a wheel, the first spoke your thinking "it's not strong enough" then as your installing the last couple spokes, you are now thinking "this thing is stronger than it needs to be" and straight to!

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