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Plasma's Photo Booth [COMPLETE]
plasma2002:
Heres the painted top.
That latex paint from Krylon is probably the coolest paint Ive ever used, haha. It will paint over things that most other paints wont. I was able to paint onto styrofoam, whereas most other paints would just eat the styrofoam away. I used it on the melamine surface for the console, and am way glad I did.
I put 3 coats on it, since this part will be getting handled the most by people's hands and whatnot. I first encountered this stuff on the console of an arcade game cabinet. I was trying to strip it off... was impressed at how thick it was and hard to scratch off, so I decided to research and find out what it was, :)
plasma2002:
Heres what the console looks like after being painted and stained (Still have to put on polyurethane and the T-Molding)
All that was left to do now was attach it to the booth. To do so, I used some long bolts and screwed them into the bolt block things I made earlier. This left me with 2 bolts sticking out of the console.
I then drilled 2 holes in the front of the booth, below the monitor. The bolts of the console go through them to the inside.
The bolts come into the bottom inside of the cabinet. They pass through a 2x4 on the way in. At first i was a little skeptical about using the 2x4 as support, but I later decided that it will help the leverage of the console from the inside.
I put some oversized washers and some wingnuts onto the bolts and started tightening it down from the inside...
While i was tightening it down, i started hearing that dreadfull sound of wood splitting. I immediately loosened the nuts and went around to check out what was going on with the console. Apparently, it seems that the bolt blocks weren't attached to the box very well. I was able to easily pull it off, which revealed that the screws had barely gone through the wood to the box.
Easy to fix, but that could have caused some serious problems later if I hadnt discovered it.
After I had driven the screws in deeper, I tightened the bolts again, and everything seemed to be good. I think im going to have to add a small piece of wood to the outside-bottom of the console, because right now it tends to slide around a little, even when tightened (as I expected it would).
Heres the current state of the entire photo booth.
Ok, I'm now caught up on back posts... Ill be updating as the build progresses from this point on
Tumerboy:
wow :applaud:
krazyxkarl:
well done!
javeryh:
This is why I love the internet. People are crazy. Awesome job so far! :cheers:
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