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walterg74:
Iiiiiiiii'm back!!! :applaud:
Ok, so not abandonded or anything but rather a combo between my trip to Europe taking a month in total, plus the fact that when I got back we have had the longest month with rains ever, meaning I couldn't work on this on weekends because of course it was raining...
But anyway, got some progres and some tools/pics to share with my fellow noobs, so coming right up! Hang on....
walterg74:
Great... I just type in a big ass post and something got screwed up, login dissapeared and I got a "not authorized" error and LOST my text, damnit :angry:
Don't feel like re-writing everything right now, so I'll be back in a while later today. Sorry :(
walterg74:
Ok, here we go again... trying to remember wtf I wrote.... ::)
Starting off with a post for the noobs like myself, who may not have seen some of these (as I myself hadn't).
Last we left off, I had gone off to Europe which, in what concerns the cab project, was also good since I was able to get my hands on some tools which I had bought in the US and that a colleague of mine brought over for me :D
One thing I was lacking, as you may recall, were the countersink bits or the all in one drill+countersink, since they don't sell them in my country. For my fellow noobs, these are the ones:
These look really cool and much nice than just screwing around ;D Still, you only wanna use them where applicable and looks nice, no point in just using them willy nilly....
Next items I got which I was lacking (and that is also not available in this pos country I live in) were the slot cutting bits for t-molding. Granted, this small cabinet will not use t-molding, but hey, I gotta be prepared for when I start building the big ass cab, right? Might as well get it now.. ::)
These are the ones:
I got the "standard" 1/16" regularly used, and also one size bigger (I believe it's 3/32" or something like that) in case it's useful for any other project I might get into...
Lastly, I also got a couple of more bits, that are called "roundnose" bits, and the idea was to get the type of rounded finish on the wood that Koenig had gotten with his milling machine. These are the ones:
In reality, I have already assembled mine, and I'm not gonna go around screwing with it just to try this, but I'll definitely be trying out how these work on some pieces of scrap wood (and also how they're limited since they don't have bearings and the like and don't know how exactly you avoid cutting up your precious piece of wood all over the place... :)
Ok, so that concludes my little woodworking/tools basics noob-2-noobs, hope you all got a glimpse of some of these tools and get familiar with them now.
I'll continue this with a new post resuming the actual WORK now :)
Later! :cheers:
walterg74:
Ok, back to work.... :)
Last I left off, I was in the middle of the dilema of making a harness for the monitor, or chopping off the extra plastic....
After thinking about it some, I decided I wasn't gonna use the monitor in anything else but a cab, and so chose the "chop off" option. Here is what
I was left with:
The panel for holding this I had already made, and I went ahead and used the newly acquired drill bits for the vesa mounting. Here it is front and back:
Oh yeah.. one post pack I said don't use if not needed didn't I....? Well I had to try it... ::)
Anyway, here it is fastened to the monitor through the 4 vesa mounting screws:
Vertical is what I was going for so....
So everything perfect right? Well, not quite... seems when I went to fit it into the cab, the two side strips that this plaque rests on were not 100% lined up....
Nothing major, but still needed fixing... Took a little from the bottom left and top right of the monitor-supporting plaque, and voila!
That'll do...
Coming up next, control panel time! See ya then! :cheers:
walterg74:
Ok, control panel...
One thing that worried me, was that the edge of the control panel facing the player, and the front little panel of the cab that also faced the player, both had straight cuts.... Ugly, dangerous, you name it...
I decided to try out a little rounding bit on some scrap wood, until I got something I like, then risked it on the control panel piece... :) Here's what I got:
Not bad... now the edge won't cut into my wrist/forearm, which is no small thing... ;)
Oh, btw, that "difference"/ridge you see on the side totally dissapeared with some light/really quick 30 seconds of sanding. ;)
Next thing that puzzled me, looking at Koenig's design was: "how the hell does the plexiglass get support?" There's no tabs, nothing I can see, etc... So wtf???
I decided what I was gonna do is have it wrest on the control panel itself. Plexi's supposed to be 3mm thick, so I used yet another router bit (getting to love these...) to have a little cut along the edge that is 3mm thick for the plexi to rest on, and that from the edge was about the same (don't remember now if 3mm or 4mm, something like that) with the idea that the plexi rests there. Enough for it not to fall through but not that much that it will be ugly...
Hope you can see it on the picture:
No?
How about now?
Better? Good ;)
Here's a loose placement on the cab to show how it goes:
Next up, part II of what I have so far of the CP! :applaud:
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