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need advice sorta i dont want to look like an idiot...lol lowes cutting the wood
leapinlew:
--- Quote from: Nannuu on October 31, 2006, 02:12:52 pm ---Robot, depending on where you live you may be able to attend a superauction which will almost certainly be able to get you a free or sub $20 cabinet and controls.
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Not at the last auction I went to... total buyers market. Auctions vary a ton from time to time.
--- Quote from: Nannuu on October 31, 2006, 02:12:52 pm ---You can definitely build a cabinet for less than $40 BUT you may be doing a lot of work or getting a lot of favors to do it.
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I don't believe I'm in the minority here when I say thats impossible. If unless by "a lot of favors" you mean people giving you stuff for free - a ton of stuff. This guy had no tools and no material. $40 is a totally unrealistic number.
mccoy178:
He could do a "trade up" type of thing. I'll start for him. Okay, who is willing to trade me a Happs trackball for this cherryswitch? :laugh2:
danny_galaga:
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--- Quote from: spacies on October 30, 2006, 06:08:50 pm ---
1 1/2 thick wood?
Man its going to weigh a ton!
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dunno bout NZ, but in Australia they make Styrofoam from polystyrene not wood ;)
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Nice one Danny, but in the 1st post he mentioned he was thinking of using 1 1/2" Ply. It was also mentioned further down and randy95 was taking this p!ss about the foam. I think, LOL.
So, here in NZ, we read posts before posting ourselves. Well sometimes anyway :P 'cos when I re-read the post I noticed what he said. Its all kinda irrelevant now because he has $$$$$$$$$$$$
Hey, where in OZ are you?
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im in brisbane although you'd think you were in nz what with all the kiwis here ;)
SithMaster:
nice going guys you scared him away.
try hitting up construction sites for scrape wood or leftovers.
or if your going to school and they have a wood shop class get wood from there. thats how i got my back door and control panels made for two cabs.
then for another cab i brought in a panel i bought from homedepot myself and used the power tools for another back door.
you mentioned a coin door-means you need locks
keyboard hack i almost free-factor in iron, solder, wire, and time
try freecycle for some stuff (yahoo group)
but get a cab for cheap first. i was going to build my own but two came along and whatever was going to be used to pay to build a cab is going into funding restoration/modification.
someone mentioned it borrow tools. i borrowed a jigsaw from my friends dad and used my shop teachers circular saw (board wouldnt fit on tablesaw so he brought his in).
leapinlew:
--- Quote from: SithMaster on November 02, 2006, 03:24:00 pm ---nice going guys you scared him away.
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We didn't scare him away. He almost caused, like, a dozen divorces...
If my wife even thought we could've build a cab for $40.