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I filled all the unused holes in the face plate with some ‘Araldite Steel’, or gunk as it’s more commonly known, as well as adding a bit of left over thin PC case steel to block in some of that large ugly hole. I drilled and added small bolts as mounts for my LCD and filled it all again with the gunk.
When finally dry, I attempted to level off the front plate with varying gradients of sand papers, a large file, power tools, half a house brick etc. It was at some point during a heavy session with a grinder that I remembered the beautiful finish that first attracted me to the box, bummer…
Beautiful front plate ruined forever
Eventually, with lots of filling and sanding, I smoothed the front nicely.
Looking slightly less awful
A quick splash of primer and it looked promising.
Primed ready for action
Finally, a few thousand coats of ‘Metalic Charcoal’ later…
The finished paint job
The final touch, another trip to Maplin’s for 1x blue power LED to match perfectly the blue LCD - beautiful, I should be a designer.
But will it all work or will it all go up in blue/metalic charcoal smoke? Find out in the 4th and final installment.
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