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Arroyo:

--- Quote from: javeryh on March 02, 2020, 02:11:38 pm ---Once I realized my mistake I was so pissed and should have shut it down for the day but I didn't. I immediately started cutting a replacement panel - and I was rushing.

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Done that many times. When you only get a little time to work on it you feel like you have to sprint to get anything done. I always regret it though, cause my mistakes usually mean twice the amount of work to fix it.

Glad you’ll be alright, and bummer again man.

javeryh:

--- Quote from: Arroyo on March 02, 2020, 02:56:36 pm ---
--- Quote from: javeryh on March 02, 2020, 02:11:38 pm ---Once I realized my mistake I was so pissed and should have shut it down for the day but I didn't. I immediately started cutting a replacement panel - and I was rushing.

--- End quote ---

Done that many times. When you only get a little time to work on it you feel like you have to sprint to get anything done. I always regret it though, cause my mistakes usually mean twice the amount of work to fix it.

Glad you’ll be alright, and bummer again man.

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This is exactly right. Time is so limited and yesterday I was thinking I’d have an actual 3D cabinet by the end of the day but my mistake set me back by a lot. As I was making the cut I was thinking it wasn’t right but I couldn’t figure out why. So then I thought maybe the mistake was made a few days ago and I was correcting it.

I’m not sure I’m going to have to use the second panel though. I need to think about it. I’ll mock it up and get some opinions so you guys can better understand what happened.

javeryh:
OK... time to get back to it. Even though I took the day off of work yesterday and couldn't feel my finger, I couldn't let an entire "free" day go by without doing something... so I finished cutting out some material with the bloody utility knife that I had meant to get done before the injury. Better than nothing.

So next up was figuring out how to get the monitor as close to the laminate as possible. I decided that I just couldn't live with a 1/2"+ gap between the front panel and the front of the monitor. So what I decided to do was try and add a 1/8" piece of hardboard to the monitor cutout area for stability in the area in front of the monitor that will not be seen and mount the monitor behind that. The top part will have a piece of 1/8" plexiglas to protect the monitor screen and match up with the hardboard.

I don't think I can explain this as well as the pictures so here goes:

I didn't take any pictures of cutting the hardboard but all I did was cut a rectangle to the exact size BELOW the opening for the marquee and glue it in place. I tried to make it as flush with the rest of the front panel as possible so that I can eventually laminate over the entire thing.

As you can see from the pictures above, the glue-up was pretty complicated. I had to get as much even pressure as I could along the thin 1/8" thickness of the hardboard panel.

It worked!

This is what it looked like after letting the glue dry overnight and removing the clamps. I'll have to scrap off some of the glue squeeze out but I should be able to easily laminate over top of this now and not worry so much about structural integrity due to the thin laminate.

The next thing I did was laminate the panel and everything was going according to plan until I cut out the holes for the marquee and speakers...

Arroyo:
Your flush trim bit wasn’t set at the proper depth and ate into the material?

Mike A:
This cab should be called the widowmaker.

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