It’s been a mad dash for the last week trying to cram in time, and got a lot done.
Went to finish off the electronics insert in the USB panel. The challenge here was that the plastic is too thin to use as a guide, and because I am going to cover the outside with laminate I needed to thicken the guide. Because the alignment needed to be precise I had to first drill the hole as I won’t be able to see anything once the laminate is covering it. So I drilled the 23mm hole in a piece of wood, then used it to shine a light underneath so that I could align the hole (this would have been a lot easier if I had used clear acrylic
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You can see the circle outline and how I needed to align it with the edges of the plastic support piece. The circle needed to fall exactly within those lines otherwise it would be difficult for future me to get it to align.
Used 2 pieces of 1/8” hardboard and used the existing screws to keep it in place:
Then cut it out with the template that was on the other side screwed in from my light alignment, thankfully it came out good:
Front side:
Repurposed the piece of plywood I used to practice kerfing as a support board for the middle which will hold the computer, amplifier, Arduino, and other electronics (slot cuts are on the underneath side). Also cut the hole for and inserted the speaker terminals.
Decided I was tired of looking at that coin door in the corner and got to gluing and screwing. Spent a lot of time mulling this one over and a big shout out goes to my man Bobby P (bperkins) for holding my hand and replying to all of my incessant e-mails. He gave me the idea for the pipe and zip ties to clampdown the wood against the curve pieces:
So much clamping and gluing but it came out good:
I had to put in 6 screws at the top of the curve to make sure the coin door plywood mated with the curves.
Got to finally install the coin box and drawer, with one little hiccup:
The 3/4” battons were blocking the clamps. Good thing I hadn’t glued the coin box, and could use the existing cuts as a guide:
That’s better:
And installed:
Here it is in action:
Mounted the USB panel as well with my Triangle Man triangles:
Took off all the clamps on the body and used the face of the coin door plywood as a guide to get smooth curves at the base:
I also worked out the inlay in the Marquee and got the sides curved to meet up with where the T-molding will be.
After almost 12 hours I got really lazy and realized I was just pushing parts around and staring at things a lot.