Sorensin
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Working on the control board some more, apart from the one button that was missing wired up all the buttons and joysticks. Picked up a 28" lcd moniter at the boxing day sales, hoping to test out the jamma units and contols just sitting on the coffee table. Turns out that jamma puts out such a low resolution picture a lcd moniter can't load it. After a bit of research online I can run a cga to vga converter which I have orderd along with some spare buttons for the cabinet. Also playing around with a raspberry pie which I will attempting to run in the cabinet as well.
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Progress picture - sanded back the bottom panel to apply another coat of floor treatment. Marked out where the frame sits against the side pieces so the screws go into the right place. Installed hinges on the top front piece on the base unit of the cabinet Inside this compartment I will install controls to change what device is being run, the amp/speaker controls and a power kill switch
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Working on the part of the cabinet that will be home to the controls.
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Applied the floor coating to more pieces and attached some pieces to the frame.
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Sorted now I went out and saw nickrock and his friend in the weekend and they sorted me out with some help and the tools I needed, but thanks for the offer!
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Some progress Cut some angles into the front panels so they could fit nicely onto the frame Trimmed up the sides so they sat flush with the outside of the fame With the front pieces all fitting nicely on the frame i decided i would stain them to get them ready to be attached permanently The stain made the wood look so good, I really wish i took a proper before and after picture, I'll try remember to do this when I some of the larger pieces. Also to note with the progress I used the large top piece I glued the mdf on the wrong side of to make one of the front pieces and I have remade the other top side piece.
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Some of these pieces are quite small and it makes it very hard to clamp down and run a skill saw across it. Also one way is ok but cutting a angle the other way the skill saw fouls the clamp and its all to hard basket.
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I would have been but I think I may be sorted now... If it falls through I'll msg you, you around this weekend? and do you have a buzzer I'm pretty keen on this buzzer business now!
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I'm porirua based but I'm keen to make some progress on a project this weekend so I can travelish...
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Hey people I'm in need of a table saw that can cut angles, Ideally I'd love to find one to use this weekend. Can pick one up if it'll fit into my car, or if someone has one setup somewhere I can use or if someone wants to do some cutting for me that would be fantastic, I think there's about 5 pieces I need to cut angles on and some pieces will be both sides, pieces are only about 600 long so shouldn't take too long. Can provide homemade whisky or cash for the troubles Thanks in advance!
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Would prefer to use the same wood throughout the build but thanks No, today is crappy outside so might have a go at it soon.
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This wouldn't work at all even if I made a new top piece, the angle of the front face is steeper than the angle on the back piece, I considered seeing if I could cut it all down a little to get two pieces that would work but they end up a little small for what I'd like. I just have to remake a piece, it's not that bad was just very frustrated at the time. I could try this but I don't like my chances the PVA is amazing and the wood breaks before the glue lets go on the joins, the only hope would be that the MDF breaks off just a little bit leaving some on the wood. That's the best case scenario and even if that happens I have to hope the glue that will be on the wood paneling won't effect the stain that's going to go on it. I looked at that, it ends up a little small for what I'd like it to be, I was considering running a 27" screen for a while and if I did that I'd be fine but I'd prefer to be running a 32" Thanks for all the ideas, I think the best answer is to just grow a pair stop winging and make another piece, I don't want to compromise the desired end result over it.
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So you might be thinking, wow that's weird shouldn't one of those pieces he's made up be a mirror image of the other and not facing the same way... well I to was thinking the same thing when i put them next to each other... I really balls'd this one up. This evening is a little depressing, I cut out the sides to the top piece to discover I had glued one onto the mdf backwards, this was past just a little annoying as there was a few afternoons of gluing and clamping there and i don't have a huge amount of the rimu flooring spare and it's a real effort and expense for me to try get more. Just incase that wasn't enough I came on here to put my my almost non existent progress to see that I had forgotten tonights monthly meet. update pic of the bottom half of the cabinets frame complete.
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Wellington Monthly Meet - Discussion thread
Sorensin replied to KKtrips's topic in Lower North Island Region
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So spent some time this weekend working on the cabinet. Have pretty much completed the two bottom side pieces (need a couple little cuts and some sanding). Glued plenty of panel together and glued them to a side of a top piece Because the cabinet is made from recycled flooring glued to thin mdf I can't really just screw or nail the outer pieces together to make the cabinet so I started making a frame for the bottom half of the cabinet aswell. This cabinet is going to way a ton when its finished the frame isn't light and neither are the side pieces .
