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Moon Patrol cab built from scratch !

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golfboyusa:
Sounds like an ambitious project and time frame. I'll take the over on 50 hours to completion!!

WhiteComet:
looks good... all the best in finishing it in time  :applaud:

david656:
thanks for the support and all ! the new dead line which is when teh moderator is coming in is end of april ! its looking tight but as im allowed to get the teacher to cut all teh inner shelves on the table saw that will save some time its just the side panels i had to do myself !

i gotta paint it and assemble it, luckily i got all the PC and TV ... in theory working ! i don't have a TV-OUT card in the PC im gunna use yet !

i have never done anything like this in my life ! so don't have a clue whats going to happen... i got a question,

i have drilled both panels indetically because there stuck together so i can screw in the shelfs and then fill over the screws BUT is it worth using support braces before i put it together or not? the whole thing is 18mm MDF and weighs a ton, im thinking 2 screws 1 dowel on each piece should do it, the dowel will hold it together whilst i line up it to do the screwing :D

now my teacher IS brilliant but is a very busy man and has told me i need special MDF screws but nothing more! so if i got to B&Q does anyone know what i gotta buy?

im privalaged to be able to do something so big ! the second biggest project is a childs cooker which is square anyway and the kid got his dad to litterally make it a flat pack ! (which isn't allowed)

david656:
hi

todays update,

first think to do was to get the side panels apart and after a bit of pushing and shuving and a few wedges here and there they were finaly apart and it was tec groupies 1 - sticky tape 0 ! BUT the tape left a nasty stick residue on the sides so with some white spirit, a cloth and a chisel i got it all off



next thing to do was to countersink the holes for the screw on panels



then as the sides were risen around the countersink i chiseled them smooth



then it was finally after a few hours today and months of sitting about time to put the bits i had together for the first time! luckily it seemed to go ok.



then there was just time to get a quick snap of the thing stood up with joe giving us a wave !




next update wednesday

SithMaster:
Its great that you get to build it during school.  I took shop class with the same intention my senior year of high school, but only made basic parts (back door, speaker panel, and cps).  Anything that wouldnt fit inside the locked project cabinet would have been vandalized or destroyed the next day.

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