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shock_'s Aussie cocktail [Complete. Plans now attached]
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--- Quote from: loadman on January 19, 2007, 03:45:13 pm ---Hey I'm an auzzie too (Sydney) .. Where is that Website?
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Why, it's on the internet! Specifically, here: http://www.aussiearcade.com.au/
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Well it's been a while.
--- Quote from: shock_ on December 18, 2006, 08:04:46 am ---[monitor] Cage is to be essentially plural strips of ply ... All I need is a couple of hours where I can operate a circular saw without having to hold a 3 month old baby
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Bwahahah, what was I thinking.
I've cut the control panels out. Hooray!
Here's a shot showing the panel layout for one side. It's all drilled now, as is the other one.Here is the monitor cage. Looking at the dirt factor on it, you'd be forgiven for assuming I'm not planning a very tidy cabinet at all. This will all be hidden, and I'll give it a good wash down first anyway to prevent cement dust getting in all the nooks and crannies, like, say, hard drives...Here is the cage with the monitor sitting inside. Note that it has not collapsed in a pile of splinters. This is a good thing, and completely took me by surprise!
That piece on the bottom will mate with the top of a lazy susan. Adjusting for height will be fun.
Next weekend my esteemed brother in law is visiting again, so I hope we can do something worthy of further photography - maybe even something that looks like a cabinet!
I also has someone return a loaned-out computer to me yesterday, which means I can salvage a hard drive out of it and put together the PC that will be driving this beastie. If only I had more time.
All you people suffering through your northern winter where it's too cold to do any meaningful cabinetry work because your fingertips will snap off, think of poor me sweating here in 38°C temperatures being eaten by hundreds of mosquitoes and doing the type of work I hate just so I can bring you these boring and butt-ugly pictures!
Havok:
--- Quote from: shock_ on March 11, 2007, 05:55:37 am ---All you people suffering through your northern winter where it's too cold to do any meaningful cabinetry work because your fingertips will snap off, think of poor me sweating here in 38°C temperatures being eaten by hundreds of mosquitoes and doing the type of work I hate just so I can bring you these boring and butt-ugly pictures!
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Time to get back to work. Heat wave here now - it's 34°F Yahoo! T-shirt weather!
Two words: bug + spray ?
:D
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Quick status report - it's starting to look like a cabinet now.
Still to 45° chamfer the monitor window edge and slot-cut everything, then need to get on with surface prep, then attach those panels and the legs...
danny_galaga:
good progress so far (",) i see youre still going with the cement on form ply look ;D
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