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CattleRustler · 08-30-08

yeah I think I can turn it off, but normally theres enough light and it doesnt fire. yesterday it was a bit overcast, but the problem in that final pic above was I never snapped it while I was down there, so when I went back it was dark enough to mess everything up

I may turn off the flash for the f of it anyway

off to the shop, cya's later on

SmasherBasher · 08-30-08

Acorn nuts FTW. Glad you got it figured out. I got these nice shiny ones from ace hardware for $0.50 each

Technically I got a bag of 10 and 10 8-32 x 1/4" bolts for $1.70. Guess I wrote some numbers down wrong

CattleRustler · 08-30-08

The Intelligence - Day 23

mixed a batch of evercoat and continued on the pinhole filling mission...

Time to get the mobo pan mountings done. I toyed with several ideas over the past few weeks, all of which ending up either making no sense or being too complicated for their own good. In the end I decided to employ the KIS,S rule (like we do when coding) Keep It Simple, Stupid.

With that in mind, I decided to ignore the predrilled holes and place my own where they made the most sence. There will be 5 screws holding in the pan on the back, but there are also 3 screws that go thru the pan into the main rails (below mobo) so I think it will be plenty sturdy

ended up not using this hole

a quick test fit prior to drilling

needed a square lip edge for drilling these holes

drilled out the upper and lower left holes, and the upper third from left, it wont be used tho, as youll see

on that right tab the upper and lower were drilled and will be used, not the stock one in the lower center

now that I had the holes in the pan I used it as a guide to drill the case. clamped like an sob so as not to slip, one chance at these or its epic fail

win right side upper and lower

win left side, both (2) upper, and 1 lower left

all unused holes will be filled or the tab will be cut off

after that I decided to get busy on the psu exhaust duct idea. thats an MNPCTECH.com 80mm fan duct about to get butchered by a hack-saw (never again, dremel next time)

ok so the idea was to make a square corner fence to mount on the scroll saw, and trim back the duct lip...

for perspective...

mounted guide on the saw

sorry for the blurry pic but thats the guide behind the blade. the idea is to push the cylinder back into the blade, then use the guide to simply rotate the cylinder, to trim off some of the lip in a clean circle. It was working at first...

then I noticed some badness, so I stopped and had a look

turns out the L-Bracket wasnt flush with the saw table so the lip was sliding under. I tried adding a second L on the other side and flipping the guide, but the same thing happened. I still think the idea will work but tomr I will make a better guide. For now chalk this attempt into the epic fail column

as the evening fell I decided to touch up the hinges with some more black. for some reason the rounded parts of them wigged out and turned a ghastly grey (like in the over-exposed pics from last night - yet they were pure black when snapped pics, odd) Anyway I think I may have went too fast during speed painting last night. For now I shot 2 or 3 coats of black on them again, but skipped the clear until I see how they look in the morning...

resume tomr
thanks for watching

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nategr8ns · 08-31-08

looks good! too bad about that cutting guide failing

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So this scroll saw doesn't use normal blades does it? Did you have to rotate the blade to be able to cut sideways?

CattleRustler · 08-31-08

nah its a spiral blade so you can go at it from any direction

thanks

Manyak · 08-31-08

Epic fail or not, that's a genius idea with the makeshift fence

Edit: When I first wrote this post I swear I put the word "genius" in it. Weird that it disappeared.

CattleRustler · 08-31-08

thanks, I will have to retry that one at some point, with a better corner in the fence

WBaS · 08-31-08

The pictures of the case primed make it look great! When this thing is all painted and put together, I bet it will be amazing. Can't wait to see it! Thanks for the updates CR.

CattleRustler · 08-31-08

thanks WBaS

update in a few minutes...

CattleRustler · 08-31-08

The Intelligence - Day 24

so I sanded for a couple hours, thats the various grits I was using (boring)

after that I was up for some electrical work

at one point I was going to cut the wire down, but the cautious side of me took over

my humble electrical kit

the extension plug clamped down for wire pulling under heat

cleared of debris

started to shrink and sleeve in red

ready for connecting to the plug

wrapped

ugly soldering, consider it a functional mod

ready to hide the ugliness

shrinked each line

sild up the wider shrink and heat gunned it too

continuity tested each of the three lines, all ok

test fit...

bendy...
(notice the piece of electrical tape, the sleeve started to unwind and fray from the shrink. I may redo this piece entirely in shrink, but we'll see, for now I left it alone

I think it looks cool tho

needed to trim off the lower mobo pan lip since I am not using the holes for mounting, and it creates a bad gap behind the case

sliced!

rough cuts

test fit...

some filing and sanding

needed to fill some pinholes

I am starting to hate this stuff, but I love it at the same time

5 mins later, alien abortion
(forgot to pic the case part that I refilled, sorry)

did some more spot priming on the parts I spent two hours sanding at the top of this log. i think I am nearly there

Well thats all for now folks, hope you enjoyed
more tomr. thanks for watching

I also epicly ruined the hinges by spraying clear on them (was 24 hours wait tho), so they will need an acetone bath and a scrub down, and then a repainting - I am actually happy about it

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