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Will be using the same Diablo blade in the above pics for all of my table saw work on this project. Those things are absolute magic! Turns out I have to buy a special router bit to cut my slots since 1/4" plexi is NOT 1/4". It's 7/32" and I don't have a 7/32" router bit. Most people don't. That's another $25. This is getting expensive. :)
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MERCEDES-BENZ 300 SLR HISTORY
Well, I got more parts in. Found four pieces of 1/4" gray tinted plexi to match my rods for $20 each, cell cast acrylic, very nice stuff and it's actually 1/4" thick! Have enough of that for the sides so I'm done buying the sheet material.
Also got what I THINK is all the rod I will need for the internal support structure. I've decided not to use any factory-made supports like drive cages or power supply bays. Going to make my own support network out of plexi rod. :)
Power supplies have arrived, have UV lamps, temperature probe and Bulgin switch in route now. Scored myself a sweet cordless butane soldering iron and am about to start a 4-day weekend. Let's get some work done! :banana:
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Health Shop
Well, I had planned to do this with a printed circuit pattern, but honestly, that turned out to be more trouble than it was worth. I think this pattern turned out nicely though. Both side panels are now complete and ready to fit.
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Marijuana Seed
got your header placed
Finally got back to work on this thing, all my parts are in, had a heck of a time finding the tools to machine these large acrylic rods but it's done!
I'll be using four of these vertically as the main support for the case, with a sheet of 1/4" acrylic glued inside a groove in the side of each one. Needless to say, the grooves had to be perfect. Here's a shot of one of them with a single groove.
These grooves couldn't go all the way through the rod, as the tops are going to be visible and polished, so I had to set up a stop block before cutting any of them so they would all be exactly the same length.
The end of one groove:
One groove was pretty easy really, but the other groove on each column had to be exactly 90 degrees to the other, since they are corners. How to do that? Found a simple solution:
Set two grooves side by side, connect them with a narrow piece of scrap:
And bingo. Leave them connected like that and run them over the router, the groove that's cut on the bottom is a perfect 90 to the one on the side. :D
All done:
Now there also have to be short grooves *across* the columns for the top and bottom pieces. And they have to be perfectly 45 degrees to the two grooves I already cut. Same method:
Hook two *equally sized* pieces of scrap into the two grooves and set the rod on these pieces. Automatically sets the angle perfectly to 45 to the router bit.
This is a rather poor shot of the front piece with the layout for the holes on it. Ran out of time to actually cut them tonight.
I did, however, get the columns and all four sides put together loosely just to see what this thing will look like. I like it.
And I just had to lay some of my UV tubes in there to see if they were going to shine brightly enough through the tinted acrylic. The picture is awful, I know, but it looks like the lights will work. I have more coming anyway. :D
That all for this week, will start cutting the top and bottom next week, finish designing the inner support structure and hopefully get some components in there!
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Suzuki gs1000s
looks pretty sweet so far +rep
:eek: That is one wicked start to a project. +rep and /subscribe for sure.
Awesome work so far!
+Rep and +Sub from me, too.
Finally got busy again, last night of my 5-day weekend. Not going as quickly as I would like (of course), but it's going.
Got the front panel cut out:
I decided I didn't want to look inside the machine from the front panel, so I bought some Krylon Fusion in satin black and painted the inside of it.
Got my plasma ball apart, did some testing on it (only fried one circuit, woo hoo!). Discovered that even though it runs on 12V DC the little coil in there steps that up considerably. (Forgive me my electronics ignorance, but this just seems to be how I learn.) First clue was the tremendous shock I got off it, then the purple arc of electricity that followed my test lead off of the top electrode when I checked it. Be careful!
I've also decided that I cannot in good conscience build this thing and have to look at the dull black surface of a stock card reader bay either.
So I cut my own.
Lots of polishing yet to do <gag>, plus laying out the rear panel and cutting it and drilling and threading support rod before case assembly can begin.
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Bmw m2b15
It was suggested to me that I show a little more detail on the etching I did on the side panels. As you can see from the pic, I used a product from Plasti-kote that simulates frosted glass. I had my doubts at first, but the results are excellent. Perfectly even coverage, and you can control the amount of "frosting" you want on your acrylic. Highly recommended stuff!
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Chrysler patriot history
