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| javeryh:
--- Quote from: leapinlew on March 08, 2020, 12:25:33 am ---Whatever you're doing to earn money for your project - keep doing it! It's looking great. --- End quote --- Thanks lew - I already know I'm going to blow my budget (again) on this one. Oh well. There are worse hobbies. After the glue dried on the front panel glue-up, I was able to laminate right over the top of the holes that were left for the speakers and marquee. I scraped off the excess glue and gave the panel a light sanding before applying the contact cement. I used the same laminating technique as the other panels (cut laminate oversized, contact cement on both surfaces, roll it on, trim excess). The trickiest part was getting a flat surface due to all of the holes that I had cut out of the panel. The first thing I did was wrap a piece of scrap hardboard in plastic wrap. This would be used to fill the hole for the marquee cutout and allow me to apply even pressure across the panel during the lamination process but the contact cement would not stick to the plastic wrap. Then, using various other pieces of scrap material, including the original cut out of the panel for the entire monitor, I was able to create a jig/template to lay the panel on top of so that the plastic wrapped panel was flush and every other section of the panel was supported. And this is what it looked like right before I laminated the panel (I removed the label before applying the contact cement, obviously): It seemed to have worked. I applied contact cement to the laminate and the areas on this panel that the laminate was going to bond with. It went on easily - nice and flat - and when I trimmed the excess with my router, it looked perfect: A rectangle! Yay! Next up is cutting out the holes in this panel for the marquee and two speakers... |
| yotsuya:
--- Quote from: leapinlew on March 08, 2020, 12:25:33 am --- --- Quote from: javeryh on March 07, 2020, 06:36:21 pm ---rubbed right off. --- End quote --- Whatever you're doing to earn money for your project - keep doing it! It's looking great. --- End quote --- I think that went over his head, Lew ;) |
| javeryh:
After laminating the front panel it was now time to cut the openings for the marquee and the speakers. This was a little tricky and I made a huge mistake in the process, which I will explain. The first thing I did was cover the panel in blue painter's tape where I thought I had to make my cuts to protect the laminate as well as to avoid chipping as I cut the holes. Next, I laid out where I wanted the openings to go (in pencil). I tried keeping everything proportional - I wanted the openings to look similar and the border all the way around to be consistent... this is what ended up causing the mistake. I forgot to take the control panel into consideration - it will rest on top of this panel and is 3/4" thick. So the border along the top should be 3/4" thinner than the border on the other sides to account for this. But I didn't account for it. I'm not sure it's a huge deal but I had originally thought of this and planned for it and when I went to cut the holes I just forgot. Oh well. After laying out the holes, I used some double sided tape to stick down some scrap wood along the lines to give the ball bearing on my router bit a guide. And then I cut out the holes... The lines are all very straight - perfect rectangles with rounded corners due to the router bit not being able to get all the way into the corners of my guide. I'll probably leave the corners rounded because it's too easy to mess up if I tried squaring them up. Plus, it looks good to me. After taking these pics I spent some time cleaning up all of the edges of the laminate - they were covered in glue. Here are some shots of the back of the panel. The hardboard used to be 3/4" taller because when I originally planned everything I had meant to cut that opening 3/4" higher. This ended up being a huge pain (literally) to fix. I had to measure down 3/4" and then use a razor and score a line through the hardboard (but not the laminate) and peel it off so that I would be able to sandwich some plexiglas behind the laminate lip and in front of the monitor. That's what I was doing when I almost cut my finger off (stitches came out a couple of days ago and by next week I should be able to have full use but I still have no feeling). The plexiglas and speakers will go right up against the exposed laminate. The plexiglas is the same thickness (1/8") as the brown hardboard so the monitor can be placed right on top. I will be securing that from behind using the monitor's vesa mounting screws. I think I'm finally at the part where I can start assembling all of these panels into something resembling a cabinet. My goal this weekend is to put it together so it stands up and also figure out the monitor mount. :cheers: |
| wp34:
Nice. Looking forward to seeing you put this together. If I understand your "mistake" I made the same one on my Tron cabinet with my speaker openings. I'm the only one that notices but I see it every...dang...time. ;D |
| Arroyo:
Nice job Javery. I see now how and why you got injured. I’d have been cursing up a storm as well. Looks like the net result though came out great. Looking forward to seeing it put together. |
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