Well, now's your chance to buy a corded one.
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Well, now's your chance to buy a corded one.
Exactly. What's really freaking annoying is that mine died 15 minutes after I got home from Lowes...now I need to make a third trip there in one week.
I had to go to ACE again to buy a new doorknob, right after getting home from buying the Dremel, because it wouldn't turn all of the way, so the front door wouldn't open.
lol
dremel the door down?
No, luckily, there's more than one door, but the knob got replaced pretty fast.
Six years ago, a movie called Men in Black 2 came out. Now, I can finally quote a line without irony or being simply trendy:
Old and busted.
New hotness.
I splurged. I got the super-whamadyne-deluxe-that's-not-a-knife-that's-a-knife Dremel kit with everything. Some times you need to treat yourself.
First step was to cut down the front portion of the top and sides that I made in the last update.
The new Dremel has a lot more horsepower than the old one, and it positively burned through this chunk. In no time at all, I had it chopped off and ready to go.
Next, it was time to cut the access panel for the other side. I just used the left-over portion of the other sides, and cut the remainder of the "L" off the top to make a flat piece. Then, it was just a matter of cutting it to size.
Hey, it's starting to look like something!
Time for a whole bunch of my old friend: Metal filing. Lots and lots of filing.
But, eventually, things start coming together. The front needs a lot more filing, but at this point, I said, "Screw it, I'm going to bed."
Which translated to, "Work on something else for an hour." In this case, it was the bezel. Here is the one off the case that I've been cannibalizing for this project. Please note the awesomely old-school turbo button. (It pains me that a number of people on this board aren't old enough to have ever seen one of these...I'm getting old.)
I cut it down on my table saw and slimmed it up to make a mock-up of the bezel (it might be the production piece, but I'm not sure yet.) I glued it up and left it over night. Saturday, I will get back to work on it.
turbo buttons lol wtf they do ive seen them but what they do?
also has the veery stylish key lock at the front
It was kind of a misnomer, in that when "turbo" was engaged, the machine was running at its stock speed. Pressing the button to turn it off, and the machine ran slower. Think of it as reverse over-clocking. Software was often written to run on a machine that was running at a certain speed (this was especially true of games) and it wouldn't work right if it was on this year's slickest model - enter the turbo button. Turning turbo off dropped the machine to a speed that the software could handle.
Now get off my lawn.
I have harvested several of those "turbo" buttons from the old AT hardware I used to have. The reset buttons can still be used, and they can be used for power buttons on ATX machines as well. The turbo buttons can be used to on/off a fan.
Nice progress on the HTPC.
kool
lol gees very specific thanx
