8) Shiny
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8) Shiny
Looks frickin' awesome, tribal! How do you get it to shine like that??
Ok,... im in the garage now. But! I'm not really doing anything productive. I am planning. I was, making the fan adapter thing to hold the fan to the HDD cage but then thought for one hot minute that i wasn't looking at the entire picture here. After realizing this, I now have to literally work backwards to accomplish my plans for this whole assembly. Reason being,... well, it's simple. Everything works together,... you can't make something thats going to work and fit with something else until you atleast know what that something else is going to look like. So,... I have to start at the back of the line of things to make and work forward, starting with the HDD shields:) After that I will make the side shields. After that I will make,... well, I wont have to make an adapter for the fan because the left, side shield is going to be the adapter. The fam will bolt right to it. SO,... after the side shields I will make the support brackets. After that I will make,... the fan shield. I think thats it for the HDD's. After the HDDs I am making a whole new pump tower with the new low profile method of mounting the pumps. The new tower of going to be taller then the last one. Its going to be bolted to the bottom of the case via a mounting bracket thing and it will reach and touch the ceiling of the case,... I might have a bracket up there too. The tower is whats going to hold the mobo tray steady. I cut away all that aluminum before so the trya sways like crazy now. I have to give back the cases sturdiness. Anyways,... I am going to start tomorrow and work throughout next week. Sunday I am doing 16 hours of OT again:( Lordy. Going to to finish thinking things through today and will get started as soon as I get home. I do a little during the morning into the afternoon, I'll sleep for a couple of hours and then get up and work all night. Cool?
@ Wingman - I use a 6" buffing wheel on tha table grinder:) I use various rubbing compounds to get the shine. Compounds are important.
Here's an update for you guyz. Haven't been able to get much work done lately but I am trying. I am going to try and work early today, if they dont need me I will continue what I am doing here. If they do and im not to tired in the morning after work I will continue. To the pics,...
Mar-13-2006
Ok,... have to figure out exactly how much space I have to work with on the front of the HDD shield. So I will try on a piece of scrap. The space I need to figure out is the space in between the bends.
The piece that is already bent I bent the old way, one bend at a time, measuring before each bend. The new piece which is laid out flat will be measured all at once and then bent later after all the detail and stuff has been cut out. I have to make sure that the measuring is right so that its not to tall or short once done.
Now the formula is as follows,... absolute height - pipe diameter - 1/8" = front surface area. The 1/8 inch is actaully 1/6" x 2. Thast 1/16" for each bend. The 1/16" is for the stretching of the aluminum and whatever else is going on that I amnot aware. If you dont subtract that factor,... your piece will be taller then you think.
The two outer lines,... is the absolute height which in this case would be 4". The two inner lines are the bend lines which I got by subtracting the pipes radius + 1/16" from each line. So thats in all would be the absolute height - pipe diameter - 1/8". Understand?
Here we go,... bending.
Bent.
Perfect.
Forgive me for jumping ahead but you guyz know whats envolved with drawing and cutting out the tape. Here the shield was scroll sawed. Now Im going to file and drill.
Drilling,...
Drilled. I drilled these holes up to 1/2". Thats the biggest bit I got. I need beigger to get the hose through the holes. I am goign to file bigger. I dont feel like spending 15 bucks for a larger bit.
Filed.
Ok,... by the time it took me to write this out, I decided that I am not going to work early. I am going ot finish this up. I am going ot work early tomorrow though. Anyways,... i'll try and post an update before I go to work tonight at 11pm. Peace.
Your bends never fail to impress.
How long would you end up spending filing the holes to the proper diameter? If it is a quick job, then you're probably good to go, but if it takes you a while, you might want to consider dropping the $15 for the larger bit. Time is money, and if you spend more than an hour doing just the filing, then you probably should just toss down the cash. Work of your quality is easily worth $15 an hour.
That said, you never fail to impress, Tribal. Keep it up.
Plus, you'll have the bit for next time you need it! :)
great work too. I wish that I had access to tools! haha!
Just going ot make this little update for Mar-14-2006 to avoid complications on my side,...
Mar-14-2006
So,... I F@#$ed up. SHOOT ME! I started a new HDD front shield. I already mentioned this mistake in one of my other worklogs. I said the reason was because of the fact that I measure starting at the 1" mark on my ruler and just never subtracted that extra 1". Thta is NOT the reason for my mistake. The mistake is within the formula I gave you guyz,... The real formual is absolute height - (pipe diameter x 2) - 1/8". I was subtracting the pipes radius from both sides when it should of been the pipes diameter. OH WELL! So,... I made it up to center punching:) All I have to do now is scroll saw out all those designs again:) YEA!!!! I changed the design around a bit too. Actually,... not much but I added some support things for the longer grooves. Was having trouble with them when bending. This will strengthen the piece very much. Theres the old piece in the picture.
Ok,... I didn't go to go early today so I slept and got up early to do some work, not alot but some.
Mar-15-2005
Here's the new HDD front shield. Noticed that the design is pretty much the same except for the little "things", bars, whatever, attaching the horizontal sssslats,... LOL, you know, as I type these worklogs out I never think ahead when it comes to naming "stuff" to help describe what I am trying to explain,... I guess I am assuming that I dont have to, that there are names for evreything already! Not. I love it, trying to name "stuff" on-the-fly while being pressed for time,... quite annoying really. You ever see the movie Kung Pow? Where he was making up words that combine two things such as bad wrong, Badong. LOL. Everytime I go anme something I think of that. LOL. ANYWAYS! You see the BADONGS attaching the horizontal garnardabs? Do you think the ones on the right should go all the way up of should the center where the hose holes are, should be free of them? The top and bottom horizontal ganardabs are longer then the ones in the center, thats why they have the badongs there, to help support them. I thought it looked kind of cool having the badongs on the right go all the way up. What do you think?
My personal opinion on the badongs and ganardabs is that the badongs should go all the way up like you have em. I like the look as well. The only change that I would make is the spacing on the badongs along the ganardabs. It seems a bit busy on the left side where the holes are and the one badong that is flush against the hole plate thingy (holate?) seems to throw off the spacing. Maybe divide the area between the holate into 3rds and space the badongs accordingly along the ganardabs. Just my .02 though. Looking really good so far and I think your attention to detail is amazing.
