Nighttime report

Late night shot with more added details. I've added a mercury switch home thermostat (tan piece) to the side of the main case.  You can now see the wiring for the electrics that I'm hiding in the copper plumbing. I've got a working motor in the wooden barrel. But I'm having problems getting the motor to work consistently at slow speeds. I've got a PWM controller for the motor but it seems to be unhappy.

XXX action

So you might have noticed that I've changed the orientation of the lever device. It used to stand up from the surface of the board. But I found it difficult to support. And it occurred to me that a manufacturer wouldn't have built it this way for the same reason. So it now lays down and is attached to the board. The ugly board, by the way, is only temporary until I get the prototype figured out. Then I'm switching to a shaped piece of hardwood. I also eliminated the stands for the motor housing and integrated it into the support for the swing arm. It all came together into a nice clean set up.