Jessie's Gumdrop - Day 10
So coming off of yesterday's paint successes, I stumbled into an epic fail when I threw some clear coat on a glossed crdrom drive. here's the damage
after sanding down the one damaged face (3m wetordry 400), I prepared it by scuffing it with a coffee filter, then cleaning it off with a cotton cloth and tiny bit of windex sprayed on the cloth. I let it dry 15 minutes then recoated twice with Krylon black gloss. I could have sanded better in the square divet but whatever. I think the salvage job went ok
I taped off the back plate and touched up the rivet gun marr, and an imperfection from pro paint. hard to see even when outlined
Assembly begins. here's the hdd getting mounted in the rail kit. I used magic fingers to start the screws
ready to pop rivet the drive cage back on. I used painters tape to set the right height and hold the cage until I could get the first 2 rivets in
front 4 rivets. my plastic protector was priceless, its pictured a few pics down.
slid in the rail kit and hdd to test fit
cage, railkit, and lid starting to come together
thats the pop rivet guard I made. just a plastic card with a hole drilled in it (bigger than the 1/4 head of the pop rivet) If you plan to pop rivet and dont have something like this, you are asking (begging) for trouble. Make a guard when you rivet on finished/painted material, that gun jumps like a sob!
a quick vanity shot of the progress so far
test fit the right panel, just to see whats up, and was getting ready to mount roof handles
first one mounted. that Krylon clear really worked out nice on the black anodized handles
inside shot of the painted washers for the roof handles
next handle ready to go in
both mounted, starting to look good?
the feet washers pulled off of the tape that they were held on to for painting
mnpctech aluminum case feet, black, and mounting hardware
kill me now
HOT!
right panel, c-channel from mnpctech and two sided 3m tape
c-channel needs a bit of support before clipping
clipped and seated
I used painters tape to hinge the mesh in the proper orientation while I set the 3m tape
after it was good I removed the 3m tape stickers and flipped the mesh over into its final position, then pressed the heck out of it
sleek, no?
put the door on to see how it looks. turns out the c-channel needs some support or else it will droop. I may put some light elmers glue in the channel just to support it. If anyone has a better idea I am all ears, i'd prefer not to glue anything if possible
threw the window panel on and snapped a pic just for fun.
tomorrow I will continue with the final assembly
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