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Nvts’s mountain’s Jukebox (revealed!)
Nvts:
Couple days of sanding the plexi, and I'm now on the verge of using the Nexus polish. The mecromesh Kaytrim posted on javeryh's post worked wonderfully. Every different grit I used made me think it can't get any better looking, until I started on the next one.
I can't wait to see the polish work, and get some real work done. All this detail work is annoying. :P
Kaytrim:
I'm glad you were to use the micromesh sanding cloths. I use them when ever I put a minor scratch in the pleiglas tops on my sticks. They have saved me quite a few times. I need to get myself some of that polish though as there is still a slight haze after the last grit of the Micromesh.
Nvts:
I finished with the plexi detail work, and it's an amazing difference that pictures cant really show the amount of improvement. But I can try.
Next up, I was trying to fart around with making the backing of the monitor and the spacing for the touch screen wires. I decided to not even fart with the spacing, and put a small strip of weatherstripping in as my spacer. It appears to work great.
I then tried out DaOld Man's trick of putting the motherboard mounted onto the back of the monitor. I added in some nuts to keep a little space between the two.
Now to read the threads again, and see what the next steps are. I know I need to router a little room for the monitor on the shell walls, and I need to actually secure the monitor to the panel, but it's a job for tomorrow.
DaOld Man:
Looking good nvts!
Im off my looong stretch of midnights, and tomorrow is supposed to be beautiful weather wise, so I am going to try to knock out some major steps on my juke.
Nvts:
lets see. this weekend I didn't get to work on it much, but after working on the front panel so long, even little things feel like actual progress.
I made the volume plexi spacer. I didn't bother gluing a washer to the plexi, I just used two washers. it was a real quick item to make, especially with a dremmel to sand the excess off.
Got rid of the area for the volume guts. the hole bit (taped off to measure depth) and the dremmel cleared the bit that was left.
I didn't know that I needed to push the volume guts through the plexi, so I needed to dremmel a little of the plexi out of the way. I made the cut for the knob on the volume guts. The spacer is not pretty, but works just fine, and no one will ever see it.
I then dremmel sanded a few areas inside the shell to fit the monitor parts inside the shell. It's about ready to glue the front panel to the shell.
I then made a template for the marquee plexi.
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