Mission Control Project: 5 years on, what to do with the leftovers?

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Brax:
Bahaha

I actually just said the same thing to myself:
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"Damnit, no new pics!"

markrvp:
Did you say something about pictures? Of a control panel? That was supposed to be finished yesterday?

I guess I imagined that. ;D

Pixelhugger:
Oh yeeees. I should have pics up by this afternoon. I was jinxed by DK's post and when I setup my camera at the wood lab last night I realized that in my rush to get out the door I left my flash card at home. ARGH! So I made sure it was loaded when I headed BACK out the the high school at 6:30 this morning to remove the clamps from the trim. The lab could not have gone better. I had the day off yesterday so I was able to get nearly 4 hours in at the shop.

This was enough time to drill the trackball hole, bullnose it, route out the recession for the mounting plate, flush trim the panel and the plexi along 3 sides with a router and along the bow front with the disc sander. Then (with literally minutes to spare before the bell rang:police:) align, glue and clamp the trim along the bow front edge (This marks use #3 of a hand made jig for the project). I polished the bullnose this morning with a fantastic result, a big relief after yet another hard learned lesson in lexan. ::)

I still have to recess the joysticks and stain the trim before I can install the art and call the non-electronic portion completely done.

Pixelhugger:
As I said, no pics from the lab last night. For the most part it was just redo-ing the same stuff I did before to the lexan/particle board CP only this time in plexi/MDF.

Glue up is always nerve wracking for me. In this case it was particularly stressful since I was working against the class clock. I had to make sure that the trim contacted the radius of the front edge all the way across. So I clamped a little jig across the outside of the trim to allow me a flat surface to clamp against and to provide even pressure across the radius. I was expecting a difficult go at keeping the top of the trim perfectly flush with the top of the plexi and was thinking I'd have to place a bunch of cauls (or braces) along the top to keep the trim in place vertically. Luckily that wasn't necessary. There was zero glue float

RetroACTIVE:
Clever.

What kind of glue?

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