I'm planning to brush main panels in my Phinix Chimera case and was wondering is it hard to do it? I've seen some videos of people doing it - clamp your panel, use some straight blocks as rails, use a big block with sanding paper and run it straight on the panels. Any guidelines, hints on doing this from our modders please?
Hehe, found one, our The_GNU is the guy! http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=114028 I'm thinking.. I want a bit rough finish, so will run some 80 grit first, then go 100, 120. I'm sure I'll get easy uneven lines, or those deeper lines - which I actually want to achieve. I want it to look a bit like rough surface that went through a lot
The other way to do it is with double sided tape - tape the paper down to your bench, set up fencing, and slide the aluminium across, keeping it hard against the fencing at all times.
Yep, I was thinking of this way too. I think I will try out on some spare alu bit first to see how it goes...
I've used it on silver and gold, and it certainly works really well for small items - can't truly comment on larger sheets. However, in theory it shouldn't make a difference with the increased scale.
I'll be doing it on main panels, which are about 18x30cm. Main thing is to keep exact same direction to get straight lines. I will clamp down some wooden block to be a "rail" for the moving sanding block. I'm all excited all about this, I never done this before
