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Gamesomnia - inspired by Knievel's Woody Cab
ragnar:
--- Quote from: andrewbean90 on September 03, 2010, 05:27:21 pm ---it was 10 bucks I'm gonna use it to light leds
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You spent less than I did :-)
So, I just spent 3 hours reinstalling Windows XP. The "product activation" was busted in the previous install. All fixed now.
u360s came in the mail. 4 days from the UK.... impressive.
The 3rd coat of polyurethane went on this morning. I hope to start assembly of the cab on Saturday or Sunday. My goal is to get the sides up, the shelves in and the back piece of wood put in place. Then i start the control panel construction.
andrewbean90:
--- Quote ---You spent less than I did :-)
So, I just spent 3 hours reinstalling Windows XP. The "product activation" was busted in the previous install. All fixed now.
u360s came in the mail. 4 days from the UK.... impressive.
The 3rd coat of polyurethane went on this morning. I hope to start assembly of the cab on Saturday or Sunday. My goal is to get the sides up, the shelves in and the back piece of wood put in place. Then i start the control panel construction.
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(Quote fixed by moderator)
ya i bought it on ebay this guys got free shipping and allows money orders
ragnar:
More progress today. Got some of the shelves installed. Installed the back. Made two holes for cooling fans and one air intake area.
The shelves are obvious. The base was the first to go on. I used a T square to make sure everything was square. Because once this thing goes on, everything else falls in place around it.
There is a small shelf near the monitor area. It's honestly more for stability creation than anything else. But I took that shelf location as an opportunity to create two 3/4" slits that will allow air to easily enter the cabinet. There is closeup of these slits in the picture group below. And a small shelf above the monitor for the computer speakers.
And there is one of two top pieces installed. That piece has one of the two holes made for the exhaust fans. The other fan will be located at the rear bottom and the hole has been made for that one also.
I'd also like to say again. That wipe on polyurethane is awesome. 3 coats and it doesn't get much better than the finish than I got.
I hope to get some more pieces cut tomorrow. And hopefully the staining will begin. I have about 6 pieces that need to get cut and stained that are 3-6" wide. And the door of course. With a little luck, I will also start the CP tomorrow.
andrewbean90:
good to see progress
ragnar:
Today I got the admin panel done. Not alot of work, but it still took 30 minutes to figure out how to set up the table saw to get the proper angles and size. In the end, it came out perfect. Measure twice, Cut once. I had to get this done prior to starting the CP in order to determine the exact height of the CP.
The next thing was the CP box. I made it with a 5 degree slant for the top piece. That turns out to be a 1" drop over 12". From reading, that seems to be a more than acceptable slant. I wish I did a 2-3 degree slant though. Just a big stupid mistake on my part as I was shooting for a 0.5" drop over 12". I simply did not do the math and guessed at 5 degrees when making the cut.
So, once that was done and fitting the cabinet snugly and with proper height, I went onto the CP top. I went with a simple box shape with rounded corners. The rectangular shape was chosen because rectangles are easy to do on table saws. I used a spray can and paint can to sketch the rounded edges on the CP top template. I then rough cut the corners of the template then used a table sander to get a nice rounded corner. Sure beats free handing with a jig saw ;). I then smoothed it out a bit by hand so that the rounded corners matched the curves from the spray can and paint can perfectly. Truth is, the table sander got me 99% of the way there. Very little touch up was actually needed. I then used the template with the router and got the wood and acrylic shaped.
Also had some friends and family over and the are psyched for this cabinet. We were 30-40 years old so we all had memories of arcades. They even want to start a game list. I and they can not wait to see it up and running.