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—1 11 07
I’m amazing!
Not for anything cool. I’m amazing because I can F something up right as it’s finished!
I dropped NB block #2…
-It hit the corner of the copper baseplate only, but the sheer mass of this thing caused an internal crack near one of the screws. It looks like it will be OK -for now. (The green is antifreeze, btw.)
Anyway… I’ve done a lot of little stuff, with no pics of any of it.
-I dug out the front coverplate and ‘Lefty’ so I could fit the switch in place, (FINALLY!) This is a shot of the switch seated in a glob of hot glue. The cloudy bit under the assembly is an LED ‘lens’.
-I re-assembled the frame. I flipped the rivets to match the countersink, but needed to smush them a bit more to fix the clearance.
-Smush…d
-I glued this foam woogly bit on the bottom of the block to help keep the seat even. It started out as a square, but this foam is too thick. The idea with the wavey shape was to keep a wide footprint while weakening the foam. (I’m not sure that makes ANY sense.)
-My close fit seems even worse now that the wires are in.
-With the full plumbing in place, it’s plastered up against the wiring. I probably shorted something out doing this too.
-On the positive side- The outside came out well. I used a new 9/32″ mill bit to sink clinch nuts for the stovepipe. I have also trimmed up the front of the stovepipe and polished it. Inside I’ve re-fit all the parts for the new thread inserts.
-A top-down shot.
-And NO, I’m not making a 3rd block!
—4 11 07
So anyway, I’ve decided the motherboard risers need to be redone. That poor Bic pen died in vain.
-Not to be outdone by TribalOverkill on putting dangerous stuff in a drill press, I finally found a chunk of metal that would take an edge. The custom ‘lathe bit’ you see here is part of a broken bread knife. The file is there to give it some structural support. The plastic is 1/8″ layers glued together.
-The fuzz generated from one cutting session. Because of the thinness of the blade, I had to set it up like a scraper. The screaming this setup made was intense.
- I should have worked on the shape a little more. These look like they fit on a baby bottle. Ignore the rough base.
-I only have 2 at this point. they take forever to cut.
3 days= 2 ‘nipples’… Is this because I was a bottle baby?
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