Own up! Why are you a MAME moron?

[Apollo]

I'm sure we have many, many tales of woe regarding what stupid thing you did while you were making your cab. Please tell whatever it is. Here is mine.

Bought my bi-metal holesaw to cut my metal CP holes and put the drill in reverse, completely ruined my new holesaw ( $20 down the drain ) and almost started a fire.
That's bad enough but today I spent $30 on a 1/16th slot cutting router blade and I DID THE EXACT SAME THING! Needless to say the router blade is totally ruined and the garage was full of smoke! OMG shoot me now! I'm heamorraging cash here folks. SIGH.

[nipsmg]

I cut all the original wood for my UAII cabinet, only to find out (luckily before assembly) that the whole thing would be 1/4 inch too narrow to fit the monitor I spent $200 for.   so I had to recut all the wood.  Hey, it was still cheaper than buying a new monitor, and I reused some of the bigger pieces to re-make the smaller pieces to save money.

--NipsMG

[Harry Potter]

I built my panel before checking to see if I could fit all the controls on it and to top it off, didn't have a clue as to how I was going to mount it onto the cab. Somehow me and a mate figured something out. Luckily it all fell into place.

[Luxury]

When doing my CP, I was going to give it to a woodworker friend of my girlfriend.  I measured everything up perfectly, included exact instructions, but never got to talk to him in person.  When I got it back 2 days later i was so happy that he did such a good job.  Except for the fact that he routed out where the sunken joysticks were to be on the wrong side!.  I was pissed and then realized that he did exactly what i had said - I had put the markings on the wrong side of the board.  I felt like an idiot, and went and built my second CP myself so he wouldn't ever know.  

[SNAAAKE]

I broke a whole laminte sheet when I was trying to laminate the sides.I put contact cement on both wood and laminate then slap it together.Now atm I didnt know I should just use a laminte trimming blade so I tried to flip the cab over and use a plexi cutter to trim the laminate.CHHAA CHING the pieces cracks in half

Perfect example of what happens when you try to take a shortcut

[GGKoul]

I drilled my holes in on the wrong side too...   What a pain.

-GGKoul

[Tailgunner]

A open trailer loaded with cabs and moving blankets, a 60 mph breeze, and the one cigarette butt I flipped out the window. You do the math.  

[SirPeale]

A open trailer loaded with cabs and moving blankets, a 60 mph breeze, and the one cigarette butt I flipped out the window. You do the math.  

The powers that be are trying to tell you something: stop smoking!

[Sasquatch!]

Way back when before keyboard encoders were all the rage (I think Hagstrom was the only company selling them) I decided to do a keyboard hack.  I took the encoder out of the keyboard and used my multimeter to map what pins went to where.  Of course, the keyboard encoder was plugged in and my computer was on so that I could see what "keys" were being triggered.  

All of a sudden, the computer just went "BEEEEEEEEEP!"  I fried out the motherboard by crossing something that I shouldn't have.  And the dumb thing was that I had a couple of junker 486s sitting around doing absolutely nothing that I could've experimented on, but NOOOOO, I had to experiment on my main PC and fry that one out.

[spidermonkey]

I rented a laminate trimmer to do the formica on my cab. Brought it back the next day and then realized that I forgot to cut the slots for the t-molding. Like a moron I decided to put my slot cutter bit into my rotozip cutoff tool instead of going back and renting the proper tool. A rotozip has a much smaller adjustable depth base then a laminate trimmer has. So small that I couldn't consistantly keep the base firmly against the side of the cab while trying to cut the slot. The rotozip started to jump. Then it kicked back and the slot cutter bit put a nice big gash in my brand new formica  . At the same time the blade caught itself in my shirt, cut me just above the bellybutton and finally dropped to the floor (moter is still running ! ) I finally yanked out the power cord only to find that two of the three cutting tips were ruined from slamming to the concrete floor while still running. Total cost of this moronic act.. one 4x8 sheet of black laminate, one tee shirt, one slot cutter bit, some Neosporin and bandaids and a bit of male ego. (Not quite the smart cabinet maker I thought I was) Even though no one was there to see it I was still embarrassed. I have one of the earlier Rotozips that has a locking power switch. I think the newer models have a paddle saftey switch that shuts off as soon as you let go. (at least I hope they do) Locking power switches are kind of nice because you don't have to constantly keep pressure on the switch to keep it going however if the powertool gets out of your control and goes ape $hit things can get ugly very quickly. Moral of the story.. get the right tool for the job. I recently found out that you can now buy a router attatchment for the Rotozip.