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[DaveW]

Good to see you're still alive CBB

Nice chair mod. Definately stick some speakers in there now for immersive surround sound.

And get a buttkicker.

-Dave

[crazybillybob]

Dave the buttshaker is neat but If I were to go that way....I'd get a bas shaker on e-bay for $20-$40, then strip the amp out of one of these spare sets of pc speakers I have here. Some thing just $80-60 cheaper


CrazyBillyBob

[DaveW]

Go for it man, you know you want to!

-Dave

[crazybillybob]

It's been awhile since I've updated everyone on my progress. I have been working more on R2 then will be in this update (gotta get some more pics), but work has been getting in my way of getting a post up (this Fiscal year can't end fast enough!).

In the last installment you saw the bearing spacer plate laid out on square stock. This time you'll see how I get that square perfectly round.

First I cut out a rough circle with the scroll saw (for the 1/4" piece) and the jig saw (for the 3/4" piece). The layout circle was a guide and I tried to leave between 1/8" and 1/4" of space between the cut and the layout line. The out come looks like this.

I created a jig for my router table that allows you to make a perfect circle. It's a piece of 1/4" plywood bolted to the router table with a screw in it, real high tech stuff By adjusting the distance between the edge of the router bit and the screw I can adjust the diameter of the circle. To mount the wood to the jig I drilled a 1/8" hole in the center of the board. then use the jig screw to hole the board to the jig. Here's the thin board mounted to the router table.

Just turn the router on and spin the board around, and out come this.

Now I just have to mount the bearing to it and center the whole thing on R2's body....more to come on this.

While I was working on the spacer I figured it was time to take care of those detail pieces that had the blistered paint on them.

After the paint was removed the booster cover got another coat of primer

This is just the first of many!

It's kind of good that the paint on the utility arm bubbled because I didn't like how rough parts of it looked once the paint dried (the area's that didn't bubble) so I started reglazing it, hoping that it will help make the finish smoother this time.

Being that the highs up here are only 50F it's going to take a few days for this stuff to dry so I'll get back to it later. I don't want any cracks or such in them.

It's a lite update for being quite so long but I've been working on some more body details and I'm going to have to adjust some of the drive components so there's more to come real soon (seeing that I've gotta have my little buddy up and running in just over a week for a LAN party)


Your humble hillbilly astromech tech,
CrazyBillyBob

[Doober]

Billybob...

HI! I've been watching this, casemodgod, etc. forums for a while, I'm contemplating building a case (yours looks sweet by the way ). Anyway, I saw you were from Lansing, and was wondering if you went to a LAN party at the Royal Scot's 19th Hole back in September. There was an R2 case there, with the LED electronics you speak of, but it doesn't seem like the timeline of what you have posted lines up with the LAN party, as the R2 I saw there was together, though it looked like it was still a work in progress (it was remote controlled as well). This wouldn't have happened to be yours, would it?

[MDCS]

Now that's a mod!
Just watched your dancing video ... so cooooooool!

[crazybillybob]

Doober,
That was me @ Royal Scot's 19th Hole. The Lan I'm talking about is not that one, I run a lan in Ohio (about 5 hours from Lansing). WaldoLan was fun, I'm tring to get some guys to come up for the new years party.
This work log is more or less current. It's crazy the amount of things that I have changed in this mod just because I didn't like them or found a better way to do it after the fact That no one else will notice or even see.
The Big update is that the MOBO in R2 took a dirtnap after the last Promised L.A.N., got home tried to boot nothing no post, no beep just the fan spinning. But I talked (e-mail) with mini-box and it's on it's way back to be replaced...nice guys.

Let me know if you gots Q's (I work in Ann Arbor...so I'll be in and out)

CrazyBillyBob

Billybob...

HI! I've been watching this, casemodgod, etc. forums for a while, I'm contemplating building a case (yours looks sweet by the way ). Anyway, I saw you were from Lansing, and was wondering if you went to a LAN party at the Royal Scot's 19th Hole back in September. There was an R2 case there, with the LED electronics you speak of, but it doesn't seem like the timeline of what you have posted lines up with the LAN party, as the R2 I saw there was together, though it looked like it was still a work in progress (it was remote controlled as well). This wouldn't have happened to be yours, would it?

[ajmilton]

d'oh, saw CBB post and thought there was worklog update to be had

such a tease

[SgtM]

CBB, what LAN do you run in Ohio? Where is it located? I live in Niles on the NE side of the state.

[crazybillybob]

sgtm,
I run the Promised L.A.N. We were in Malvern for 3 years, the last one we had was begining of Nov and it was in Carrollton (also NE Ohio....South west of you abit down 11 like 1hr or so) We've switched from every month to a few times per year (the fact that I have to travel 5+hours to get there and take a day off work promted that desision) we list on Lan addict and Lan party...I'll make sure to post something here before the next party.

CrazyBillyBob


Also I hang with the Lanohio Crew...great lan party every month in Canton. In fact their haveing a Lan on Saturday check out www.lanohio.com