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slicer_d:

One more question does anybody know what the redoctane cases are made out of.  I have one now but I have no clue what it is actually made out of.

I read OSCAR's post about chisseling out ~1/4" on MDF but I have no idea if mine is particle board or MDF a guess a easy way to figure out would be to start chisseling but I just figured I would ask and I dont really have the time to get going on in untill saturday anyway.

Thanks
SlicerD

armad1ll0:

It's MDF...

J~

slicer_d:

Cool thanks looks life I'm buying a chisel this weekend!

slicer_d:

Well I've been working on my redoctane stuff over the weekend.  I got some chisels for 10 bucks at the Home Depot.  

They worked pretty darn well if I say so myself.  Being that you can only get in at a low angle from one direction kind of sucked.  But I eventually took out 3/8" with will leave me with 1/2" thinkness with the mdf and lexan.  

I would say I worked on it for about and 2.5 hours.  It would have only taken an hour but I decided to go for the extra 1/8" and that took another hour.   Then I  tried to get it as level as I could and it seems to look pretty good.  I can feal a couple low spots but 95% seems to be perfectally level.  

All in all it is a good way to go if you dont have a router.  And almost the only way to go if you have a redoctane case.

I'm going to post a little review/how to for the redoctane stuff later with pics so anybody that is interested and wants it right now can PM me other wise it will be up in a week or two.

Slicer_D  ;D

P.S. Here are links to oscars original stuff.
Post
http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=2496;start=0
Pic
http://www.oscarcontrols.com/tmp/router-chisel.jpg

IvAnC:

http://www.redoctane.com/arcadecasepcb.html
link is not working or they dont sell the box anymore??

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