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Oops! There goes another Mountain Juke Box! (*05/04/2009*) Update
Franco B:
Don't sweat buddy. If you have enough material and want to make one the same size just clamp your existing piece to another bit, trace round, jigsaw the excess and then flush trim it to size (just make sure not to flush trim the smaller part!)
Not so bad eh? :)
Nvts:
I'm with Franco, use the one you cut off the template for a new one. You might have spent hours making that one, but it would only take 30 minutes to make another one just like it. The Home depot I go to has 24x48 inch precut MDF that I used for mine, since I can't carry a full sheet around in my car.
The other thing I would check is how much clearance you have with the cables that come off the ports on the motherboard and the side of the shell. The picture that you had it mocked up sure looked like it would be forced past the edge of the monitor too far. That made mine shift more to the right side, so there would me more room for cables off the side.
DaOld Man:
Thanks guys.
I took the wife out to eat today and while we were in town (30 miles away), I stopped by lowes and picked up my laminate. They first said it would be a least two weeks, but I got a call today saying it had come in.
I picked up a straight pattern bit today, so Franco, I think you have an excellent idea of just using the bad piece as a template, and this new bit should work very nicely.
When I got home, I glued a 1 1/4" piece to the bottom. The glue is drying now.
But I dont think I will trust it. I think I will go ahead a make a new one and add at least 1/2" to the width of it.
I wanted it to be as small as possible, but its better to have too much room than not enough.
NVTS, I attached the cables and all to the MB when it was mounted to the monitor.
Its going to be tight, but I think it will go. The one Im most worried about is the VGA cable. I tried to find a 90 degree cable, but I cant.
If I give myself more width, that will give the cables more room too.
I can also shift the motherboard more to the right if I have too, but not much, because I plan to stand up the power supply on that side.
Oh well, time for me to quit whining and get back to work. I got to work 12 hour shifts this weekend, and Im pretty sure we have a maintenance outage next week, so that means 12 hour shifts for me most of next week too.
So I probably wont get a lot done next week.
why oh why cant they just mail me my paycheck??
DaOld Man:
Bumped just to let everyone know the status of this project...
Whew.. what a last 7 days! Worked 79 hours in 7 days.
Got off on time today so I went back to the shed.
I decided to go ahead and make a new front, since the piece I glued to the bottom of the one I screwed up didnt look too good.
Plus I went ahead and added another inch to the width.
Now the width (before skin) is 16".
The wood width around the monitor cut out was 5/16" now it is 13/16".
I quit after cutting out the marquee area, because I am little wore out. (hey, it's my thread and I'll cry if I want to.)
Anyway, sorry no pics tonight maybe I will get some fresh ones tomorrow.
Tomorrow is supposed to be cold, even calling for snow flurries, so I may have to fire up the kerosene heater.
I plan to cut out the monitor area, cut out the back, add 1/2" to each side of the bottom plate and the speaker box. And hopefully get all this done tomorrow.
Keep your fingers crossed for me. One more mess-up and I just may have to kill myself.
(jes kidding, I havent done that in the last 51 years, probably wont now.)
DaOld Man:
Got some work done today, after sleeping in a bit (I missed the morning cartoons dag nab it!)
Had to fire up the kerosene heater and it did good at keeping me nice and warm.
First, I cut out the hole for the monitor, which I had marked last night. I used a jig saw first, then set up rails to guide the router pattern bit to cut right down to the mark.
I didnt take pictures of the setup for each cut, but I basically had to lay out rails to guide the router bit four time.
Here is the finished product:
Next I laid the monitor into the cutout and marked for the sensor wires on one side:
Then I marked the other side for the buttons:
I noticed after my first cut that I had the monitor upside down when I marked the clearances DOH! I fixed that. Here is the sensor wire side:
Here is the front of the monitor, laying where it should be when project is finished:
I had been wondering why everybody was cutting out for the top to go into the wood more, now I see.
The mounting plate on the top of the monitor is closer to the front than the bottom mounting plate.
Now I will have to router out a bit to make the monitor sit level.
how much did you guys cut out? (Depth wise?)
Looks like it doesnt need much at all.
Here is my final shot for the day. I call this my 2001 Space Odyssey shot:
Next on the to-do list:
Router out for monitor top mounting plate.
Cut this front piece off the board. (Hopefully correctly this time).
Cut out laminate (or acrylic) routing guides for marquee, monitor, and speaker bar.
Add 1/2" to sides of speaker box and get speaker box ready to laminate.
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