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The Final Stage - (06-22-12: Project COMPLETE. Final pics in OP!)
TheShaner:
--- Quote from: lordnacho1 on April 25, 2012, 04:17:28 pm ---Fellow NY-er following. I'm jealous that you have a workspace outside. I'm about to do some routing in my kitchen...when my wife is at work. Must clean all dust before she returns.
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Man, don't even try cutting or routing that MDF inside. No matter how good you clean, there will be dust in the house for life.
lordnacho:
Even just one joystick recess?
RyoriNoTetsujin:
--- Quote from: lordnacho1 on April 25, 2012, 10:35:27 pm ---Even just one joystick recess?
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Honestly, given my first experience cutting MDF (for the sawboard I made on Saturday) ... yeah, TheShaner tells the truth. It is a very fine, very sticky dust that will coat anything and everything.
More importantly -- and you probably already know this, but still -- you shouldn't cut MDF without proper ventilation and some kind of face mask. Even one of the cheap paper ones are better than nothing (that's all I had). Breath that crap and it will stay with you for a while.
I was outside (in The Workshop!), with a mask on, and I and all the tools I had out there with me had a nice little patina of MDF dust afterward. I had to strip in the entrance foyer before my gf would let me walk through the living room. True story. :cheers:
RyoriNoTetsujin:
Weather was decent yesterday, and I got off work early, so I managed to make some cuts. No pictures though, for two reasons:
1. They wouldn't be that interesting right now anyway. Bunch of planks of wood, basically.
2. Did I mention that my whole apartment is wired to a single 15amp fuse?
... yeah. :banghead: :banghead:
I forgot to mention that earlier because I hadn't really thought about it until I set up (in The Workshop!) to make the first cuts. So yeah, the whole ---smurfing--- thing is on one 15amp fuse ... not breaker, old-school FUSE... including the fridge. I have a 13amp circ saw, the fridge compressor bumps up to 8 or 9 amps when it kicks on, you do the math...
Rather than play Russian Roulette with the lone fuse, I decided to unplug the fridge while using the circ. So I was working on a timer, and I couldn't bring myself to go longer than an hour and a half before I had to plug it back in.
Wait, let me get one more of these in. :banghead: Ah. That's better.
I managed to break down the two "scrap" (i.e. not quite 2'x4') panels before I gave it up. Then my buddy came over (gf was out running errands) and helped me finally get those arcs drawn down on the side profiles. Hooray for the pencil on a string trick! I will get some pics of that before I start cutting them out, but I want to finish the basic circ saw work first and get it out of the way -- I'll feel more comfortable about taking my time and taking some pics!
Here, so I don't leave this post completely bare, before I go I'll post the pics of my cut layouts. For each 4'x8' sheet, I've currently "rough" processed the 2 rightmost columns, and the two cab sides. (For those of you wondering, I allowed for 1/4" between each piece. Plenty of room, even if I have to resort to using the router to rough out the pieces.)
Next update... Tuesday, if we're lucky? Thursday is my next day off, but it's also my gf's birthday so she has me for the evening. ;)
DaOld Man:
Your cab is coming along nicely.
I feel for your house being on one 15 amp fuse. Havent seen that in a long time, is it an old house?
Good advice about cutting MDF. I would never cut that stuff inside the house.
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