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cheapskate

Posted in on May 30, 2008 at 6:43 pm

—6 9 07

-I have a use for the 3/4″ block I cut out of the back panel. I made casefeet. Here I drilled center holes for each foot. I have a stainless shear pin to use as a post.

-This is the cutting jig using the shear pin in a block of wood. I like using the tile saw because it’s the only tool that I can trust enough to get my fingers really close to. Would you get your fingers 1/4″ from the blade on a router? HELL NO!!! Don’t even try it!

-After about an hour at the saw, I got them ground down to this. I have a whole bucket of deadly rainbow jagged bits too, Maybe I’ll make a ‘do not touch’ sign…

-Much sanding and polishing resulted in these babies. I had to put them on a screwdriver to hold them against the buffing wheel. My fingertips got a little shine too. The white spots are where the polish got between the layers. -Remember how I screwed up gluing this part and ended up with air between 1 layer of red & blue?

Now…
Here’s the question…

-Do I mount them point down, nice and sturdy?

-Or inverted turntable look?

—9 9 07
Clumsy week.

-I got some 1/8″ plexi from Delvie’s, (like I haven’t bought enough already…) I got to work on a psu cover and fan duct. I proceeded to totally mangle it. This bend was redone. After heating it up I realized I didn’t have anything smooth to smash it into shape with. I settled with a block of wood. Now the sides are all lumpy like the wood…

-During all this the heat gun slipped off the workbench and landed perfecty on the nozzle. The little ceramic element in the tip broke, but I can still use it like this.

-You got realll ugly, baby! I had to reheat a corner because I bent it too short. Fortunately, this side will be hidden by the casewall. (I guess the whole things inside dark blue plastic, so no one will see -any- of this unless I take a side off.)

-A final test fit before sanding. I seemed to have lost all the pics in between.  I’m going to leave the back wall of the cover like that. It will help me to ’shorten’ my wiring, (by stuffing it up in the gap.)

I’ve made it to the point where I’m tearing everything down to sand and polish it. (-and I forgot to test my loop again… ) 
I still need to make:
a duct an mobo cover.
the rest of the loop and mounting.
wire management bits.
buttons for the dvd and floppy.

Then I can move to the next phase - decoration and leds

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