TRIBALOVERKILL, "Blackout"

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Twice the goodness

Can you tell what the ruler-ruler method is or if you already have what page it is on?

The ruler-ruler method is simple. It's two rulers taped to each other. One ruler acts as a spacer and the other is a straight edge. What you do is mark your acrylic where you want to cut. You take the ruler-ruler and tape it to your acrylic so that the straight edge is right above the line you want ot cut too. You then take the acrylic with the ruler-ruler still stuck to it and send it through the router. The collar on the router bit will run along the straight edge ruler making a perfect straight cut. You have to make sure that the ruler is exactly wher you want it on the acrylic before you cut. You also have to make sure that you dont move it. I use a, I forgot what is called, but its a right angle thing. I used the body of this tool to line up the ruler-ruler. I acheive the rounded/ knifed edge,... I use a thicker ruler as the spacer. Heres the ruler-ruler I am using now,...

Got to page 22. There you will see how I cut the windows for the enclosure. I used the same method. I also show how to use it with the router. There are more pictures of finished cuts using this method. I have to take some pics of how I line it up with the marks on the acrylic. Im going to try and do that today.

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Here's yesteradys update,...

Here's a window withe the edges round except the corners. I like it.

Here I started clear coating the metal parts. I didnt clear coat the tube panel yet because I didnt cut holes the the tubes yet.

Today I will be cutting the posts that will hold this thing up off the case. The same posts are going to hold the canopy up. I dont think they will be hard to make but you never know. Oh, I rounded all the acrylic edges for the enclosure. I still have to do the case windows too, and any other parts I should make.

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Ok,... here is my update for the day)

This is how I got the aluminum tube to spin with the drill so I could clean and polish it as if it was on a lathe I pushed in the aluminum with a small hammer where the drill bits groove are. Worked great

Heres the whole shot of it. I actually had the drill between my legs instead of being in the vise as you see in the picture. It was some what embarrassed when I was polishing the tube,... but can't quite figure out why?!?!? LOL.

After using coarse sand paper.

After polishing

Look at the diference

All the pieces I need to hold up the enclosure and it's canopy I taped the polished tube so I wouldnt scratch it.

This is how I cut the tube up. I used this old mitre saw. This thing is nice. Nowadays they make cheap ones It did a great job but it left little lips on the ends that I had to do my best to get off without ruining the 90 degree ends or taking more off the height.

All done and ready to go. They are some what off from each other a bit but thast ok seeing that they are going to be mounted far apart so I wont be able to notice it at all.

Heres the front panel for the enclosure. See the bubbles on the edge? I couldnt keep that from happening. It's something in the plastic. I tried agaijn with the clear acrylic and it was easy! Sucks

See the the plastic is distorted when looking through it Sucks some more. So I am not going to to flame polish anymore. Atleast the tinted stuff.

I am going ot try and do some more work in the morning. Talk to you guyz later! Bye!

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Ok,... today I finished cutting all the acrylic, well atleast the acrylic needed to get this thing together. I rounded the case windows too. I also polished the other aluminum tube too. I want to use a pipe cutter to cut them this time. I can polish the marks from the pipe cutter away after they are all cut. Here are some pics,... OH, boddaker, I did what you did! I used the drill and the bench vise as a lathe. I had my gurl operate the drill. I took a round piece of steel and tapered the end and put that in the vise. I spun the tube on that and it worked great. The pics,...

Heres the steel rod after the polishing. It was in the vise.

Heres the rod all polished out. I'm going to cut it another day.

I probably wont be able to work on the computer until monday till then peace out.

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First, I want to thank Draeth for nudging me to use the pipe cutter I'm pretty sure by that you know whats going to be posted within the reply here. I went ahead and cut new posts using the pipe cutter and it came out perfect! PERFECT! Look,...

Here Im reaming out 1 of the 22 already cut posts. I cut 2 extra just in case. The pipe cutter leaves alot of burr on the inside the the tubes once cut. Here I'm drilling it out.

Here I have a larger drill bit that I'm goign to use to taper the inside edge of the the tubes. This is to remove any burr on the edge or even the outer surface so that the tubes sit flat on a surface.

Here I'm drilling the taper.

In this pic they are all reamed and tapered. They are now ready to be wet sanded to clean up the outer finish.

Look how accurate the heights are! Perfect.

Here they are all finished!

Now,... I have more good news. Tomorrow I will be working on this instead of going to work. This means that there is a good chance that I will be able to put this enclosure all together and maybe even mount it to the case!!! I can't wait!

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Ok, here are the pics. There's alot of them. I'm going to keep the comments short seeingthat I am tired.

This is how I am going to keep bolts centered inside these tubes.

I cut away the bottoms.

This is what I stick in both sides.

I take this and stick it in the vise to smash them into the the tube,...

Like this.

All the tubes with their blue inserts.

Installing the posts onto the canopy.

Installing the radiators.

The clear tygon tubing fits nicely with minimal kinkage

Canopy installed. I think it's to high.

Another shot. I am going to cut these posts about in half. That should look alot better.

Here I have the fans with their grills installed. I also have the side panels and the front panel installed. I there are only 8 posts holding up the enclosure. This is so that I can get out the bottom fan panels without having to remove the entire enclosure.

Here's what I thgouth was done. I have to change some things. I have to lower the height of the canopy. Also,... because the height of the canopy was so high I couldnt use the bolts I was using thoughout the project seeing that they didnt come long enough for it. So I started using dome nuts which I like but dont. Once I lower the canopy I am going back to the old screws. The dome nuts stick out to much.

Here are some more pics,...

Now, another problem I have is that I don tnow how I will bolt the bottom fans panels up. Once this thing is all together,... how do I get the nuts inside the enclosure and get them on the bolts that will hold the fan panels up. I can't believe I missed this. Any ideas? I have to cut the tube panels tomorrow too. If cutting the canopy posts doesn't take to long, which I dont think it will. I might be abel to work on the case mounting this thing to it for good I hope. But it's pretty much done so I am happy Let me know that you think of it

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Ok,... here it what I intented this thing to look like.

The enclosure when mounted will be about 1/4" lower or closer to the case. Right now it's sitting the the washers and the heads of the bolts. I went ahead and drilled the tube panel as you see in the picture. I will evenually make a Uv green panel to cover the tube panel. Well,... the UV green panel will be big enough to just cover the holes. It's not like my intention is the cover the entire tube panel. Rule is that where there is something passing through something,... there has to be a UV green panel there. It's to basically make it look nice. In the pictures you dont see the tube panel posts. I left them out seeing that the tube panel wasnt ready to be mounted. Tomorrow if I have time I will mount the enclosure and drill out the top of the case for the tube to pass through. The two smaller holes i said before is for chrome shower hose. Well,... I hope tomorrow I can mount it, Im eager. I haev to escort mom to this awards dinner thingy plus I'm going out with a friend to look at his friends bike. Hes selling it to me CHEAP! So cheap. I love it. SO I might be rolling home with a bike in the next few days. Maybe. I'll take pics If I do. Night people. Oh did I mention I got into a car accident today? @#$%&! It's all good though. The guy doesnt want to persure it. Anyways. Night.

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I bought this today! Isn't it SWEEEET!

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Here are some pics of yesterday's work,...

Looking good? See where the tubes come out of the enclosure and go into the case,... I am going to to cut UV green panels and then bolt them over the are where the tubes come out and go in to dress it up to make it look nice. It's not bolted down yet because I have to do some more planning first. I had to cut away some the the mobo tray whic is no biggie. I just have to clean it up a bit. I am hoping to do some more work on wednesday morning.

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AN UPDATE!!! WITH PICS!!! Here you go,...

Heres the PSONE LCD I took out. Here the back of it.

Heres the front. This thing is cool as hell. The screen is soo small and thin! It's a little monitor! How cute ! Ok, a bit to gurly there.
Sniper: UZI :2guns: machine gun :p: :shockwhore: That's better.

Here I marked where I am going cut. I want to cut out everything inside the tape there. You can't really see the line where I am going to cut becaus the tape is very close to it.

Here's the line in which I will cut. I scoured that line into the anodize with a scalpel so I wouldn't lose the line. I prefer marking this way. I did this when cutting out the windows for the cases side panels.

As you see here there is a board clamped to the front of the case where I plan on jig sawing. I did this because if I didnt the blade would move to far inside the case and jab whatever is in it's way. I had to make sure the blade didnt come out of the either because to would end up jabbing the front of the case possibly shattering the blade taking one of my eyes out leaving it just hanging there while blood spews out all over the place making a mess of everything. Blood everywhere. The moral of all that,... where your googles.

After reuniting my eye with it's socket I finished the cut. Very close to the line. Minimal filing needed.

All done. Actually I want ot take off some more at the top. No biggie.

I left the front panel holes. The front panel won't be under the tinted front panel.

Notice how the edges are the same all the way around. Originally,... the drive bay opening before the cut had nice smooth edges. I cut the smooth edges off just so that the edges were identical all the way around. I didnt want smooth edges up top and jagged down below. I thought it would look sloppy. This looks alot nicer.