TRIBALOVERKILL, "Blackout"

[tribaloverkill]

Oooo, the classic psych ward "take down"! Haha! I had a patient grab my tie on the geriatric psych ward and try to have a go at me, world war II vet with PTSD. Man it's amazing how strong those old dudes are too, even though they look docile.

HELL YEA!!! Those old people are strong as hell! Well some of them. There was this one old dude that was almost as strong as me!! I was like holy **** old man!

[tribaloverkill]

Hey guyz. Just a small update. Sorry, but I have been spending much time in the studio the last several days. Been working at the hospital. I'm trying to atleast get my bills caught up. I'll be doing some more doubles at the hospital this week. Probably during a weekday and on friday. This way I can spend all day and night in the studio on saturday and monday. Anyways,... check it out.

May-07-2007

Was just playing around here,... been trying to design some kind of logo for myself. This one came to mind. I think it's cool because you can easily see the "T" and the "O" is the shielding around it. Its basicallt a sphere in teh center where the outer sphere is sectioned apart in the shape of a "T". what you think? I have to show you how I cut that circle of acrylic out too. I'll do that later though.

Ok. Pump tower. This is pretty much it. Nothing big when it comes to designs. I didnt want to over do it like I did the last time. It will be polished out so it will do a lot of reflecting of other design work. So you will see green on it but from another component.

A new method of fastening the pumps down. I know the pics dont tell much at all but you'll see when it comes together.

Everything cut out except for the grooves.

Here's the hole close up. I need a way to fasten from the outside as oppose to the inside like the last mounting method. This is going to work nicely and it going to look good too. Even though it wont be seen. Anyways,...

This just looks very cool to me. It's like an cardboard box except its aluminum. I mean if you think about it,... it is an aluminum box. IT going to be rivited to the case. This is why I need to fasten the pumps from the outside.

This is all I got for now. As soon as I have more I will update right away. Thanks guyz! PEACE!

[NocturnaL]

Looks great man, as expected from the one like Tribaloverkill. Keep up the amazing work man

[tribaloverkill]

Update,...................

May-12-2007

See the little notch thing,... its to shallow. I dont know what I was thinkin. Geez. I hate moments like this,...

The notch as to be showing around the pump.

This is how long they need to be. If I realized this the first time around I would of done it differently. But this is fine.

See the holes or notches,..

I cut out the rest of the detailed work.

Drilled the mounting bracket holes mounting holes. lol.

Dear A.C Ryan, Along with all the tools and machines I asked for,... I would also like a kitchen. With a little oven or toaster and one of those tiny fridges. I would benefit from it greatly. Thanks!

Mounting holes for the shields drilled,...

Bending the old but good way,... with a hammer. Apparently my POS brake is a POS!!!! I even braced the part that swings with angle iron and it still bows! It is absolutely worthless to me!

As you can see,... using a hammer works just fine. It just takes a bit longer. I really need a heavy duty brake.

My new love,...

The heavier duty bending brakes,... have any of you actually usd one to easily bend 1/16" aluminum? I mean,... I want a brake that seriously bends 1/16" aluminum.

[jdbnsn]

Dear A.C Ryan, Along with all the tools and machines I asked for,... I would also like a kitchen.

Come on A.C. Ryan...can we get this man a kitchen? Hell, he's been roasting marshmellows over a heat gun! Loving the work as always, also digg the "tribal-bat-sign", would make a nice logo etched into your res's. Keep it up bro! We want to see this puppy runnin!

[tribaloverkill]

Come on A.C. Ryan...can we get this man a kitchen? Hell, he's been roasting marshmellows over a heat gun! Loving the work as always, also digg the "tribal-bat-sign", would make a nice logo etched into your res's. Keep it up bro! We want to see this puppy runnin!

Actually its a Cheese steak

[Cagedconnerman]

Cheese steaks are like 50 gazillion times better than marshmallows

[tribaloverkill]

Cheese steaks are like 50 gazillion times better than marshmallows

Tell me about it,.. I wanted one so bad I was heatin it up with a heat gun. LOL.

[tribaloverkill]

So I was going to spend all night in the studio on saturday but didnt. I was actually there just long enough to screw up the pump tower. Yup. Here's what happened,...

May-13-2007

Here's the tower almost completely bent to its finished form.

I didnt finish bending it all the way because is busted. It was hard as hell to bend! I mean damn! If you look closely in the pic here,.. you can see the corner is cracked. This is from striking the tower with a hammer during the bending process. The end of each side being bend was vibrating. Vibration being a very tiny tiny sway back and forth. Everyone knows whats happens to matel when you bend it back and forth enough times,... it gets weak and breaks. In this case the corners cracked. So the tower is worthless to me at this point.

The tower isn't even straight. It's all crooked and s@#$. I need to meaken the area of the bend to make it easier to bend.

Here's what im going to do. Up until now I have been using the dremel with a cut off disc to remove some material on the bend line to make it a bit esaier to bend. Well,... that wasnt enough. Using the dremel is sloppy means of doing what I really want to do. That being,... by milling out the bend line. Thinning it out. In the pic you see lines. They are actually grooves. I used a drill bit to cut these grooves believe it or not. I used the drill press.

Like so,...

The result,... MUCH BETTER! Actually it's 10 times better! It bent very quickly and very easily. The bend it straight as hell and its crisp and clean. So slick looking.

This is the tower bend. You see how the tower bend is more rounded and sloppy looking?

The new bend again. This is what I have to do to make this tower.

I am seriously thinking about using steel very soon. I am thinking that I will use a thinner gauge steel to make stuff like this. I would want a thin as possible without being to weak. Either that or maybe using a slightly thinner aluminum? It would be weak though. Maybe a thinner but stronger alloy aluminum? But if I used a harder aluminum alloy I would most likely have to heat it to bend it seeing the harder stuff tears more easily while bending. I am thinking a thin steel for enclosures and cover etc.

[tribaloverkill]

Ok,... so here's what happened when I went back to the studio,...

May-15-2007

Here's teh new tower all drawn out and ready to be cut,...

I drilled out ALL the holes needed this time. Notice the pump holes. This is how it should of been done.

Cut out and filed,... almost ready for bending. I need to mill the bends first. I need to practice first,... need to do it again just to be sure.

The drill bit im going to use. It alot shorter then the last I one I used. This is to prevent the bit to bending while cutting.

A nice clean groove about half way deep. The long groove I'm talking about. Not the ugly one. Thats was a poor attempt using another bit.

Perfect. It worked again. Lets do it!

All the grooves cut out. If you look close you can see where the bit when running around cuttin up my friggin tower! This is because I have been feeding the aluminum into the bit in the wrong direction I feel so retarded. I bet if I fed it the right way it would of been so much better. What I have is good but damn! I wanted PERFECT! Anyways. This will all be hidden on the inside of the tower so it wont be seen.

About half way deep. I'm only bending 1/32" now.

DAMN! Thats was so EASY!!! OMG thats worked so well. I bend the large sides by hand using a piece of wood! It was still hard but im diesel so yea LOL. The reason I did it by hand is because by bending it all together like that at once,... it will be the mot even possible as oppose to bend a small section at a time. You see the difference though! holy S@#$,... it's like night and day.

I know you can seed the difference in this pic. You see how the onle on the left looks more squared? Thats the good one. So crisp.

Big difference.

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