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Very minor progress to report--cleaning the paint off the back panel of Frank took a bit longer than I thought it would.

Forgive the ****ty pics, I forgot to grab my camera and had to take these with the cell phone. If I would of had another hour, I would have been at bare metal and been ready to prime. This is roughly 20 minutes worth of stripping with my drill. Yes, I could go get some paint stripper, but I find that using a stripping bit is much more therapeutic.

More coming tomorrow. As you can see, I've ripped this thing down completely. I'll hopefully get the MDF bottom drilled and painted.

And the paint scheme is gonna kick all sorts of ass. You'll just have to wait and see.

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a drill ??? never heard that one before nice workk

My dad was striping the paint off of the keel on his old boat with a drill, until he got paint stripper. For my case, I just used a palm sander.

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a drill ??? never heard that one before nice workk

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If you look at the first picture, you can see my stripping bits in the lower right hand corner.

It's a bit time consuming, especially if the work area is on the large side. But also very stress relieving.

I think I need me a few of those. All I been using is sanding disks on a drill. gives you funky swirls that have to be sanded out anyway by hand.

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Originally Posted by Bopher

I think I need me a few of those. All I been using is sanding disks on a drill. gives you funky swirls that have to be sanded out anyway by hand.

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I still get a few funky shapes, especially with the metal one. I'll be going over all this with most likely 600 grit before primering.

Block sanding...oh joy. But hey, paint jobs are very dependent on prep work, so I'll do what I gotta do.

oh right yea idk what i was thinking about lol

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Originally Posted by DrumThumper

Until then, I will be tearing Blue apart and canabalizing the 200 gig HD out of it and using it in conjunction with 2 80 gig HDs for a total of 360 gigs plus whatever isn't being used by my 4 gig (yes, that is correct, a 4 gig hard drive) by FreeNAS.

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is anything under 100 gig even legal anymore :? :D

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Originally Posted by SXRguyinMA

is anything under 100 gig even legal anymore :? :D

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Hehe. I've got quite the collection of ancient gear. I think I still have the hard drive out of my first computer, and it only held 180 megs IIRC.

Following up from the previous post:

Two of the three sides done. I'll probably go over the front as well--or just hit it with some 600 grit and paint over it.

And some commentary from yours truly:



I would have gotten the third side done, but 8 hours of work + 45 minutes of sanding = jello arms. I'll bust out the third side tomorrow and, depending on next week's work schedule, there's a good chance I'll get the priming done on this and the rest of Frank. Speaking of Frank, I've got a bit of work to do with the lighting on the bottom--intermittent flashing, and I know where the problem is, so I'll be doing some rewiring. Then I gotta figure out where and how to hook up the white LEDs inside the case.