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I' glad you found it to There will for shure be some serious milling when it's time to carve out the front. Got this huge piece of alu in my closet just waiting for me to bring it to the workshop

 

OOh, Yeah baby. Tell me more!

 

Well, just a 7kg piece of 650x200x20mm alu that will be milled down in a heatsink pattern with some holes and slots . It's next after the sanding is done.

 

Well, been a while but heres another update of the work in process.

Im starting to see the end of this top and bottom pieces that have been haunting me forever.
The rough shaping is done and tha basic radius of the pieces are done. Whats left is the finishing wetsanding to get it all really smooth. Sanding down all those small steps I milled to the right radius took me roughly 10 hours all together. I started of with a file and when I got close to the shape I wanted I finished of with the "finger sander" as I call it. Not the biggest update of this log because all those hours of sanding don't produce a lot of good action shots.


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FINALLY all the lines are gone..

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Still need to cut away the excess material on the sides but you get the idea.

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Haha, I know what you mean. Great work, but don't you have to make another of
these for the front?
By the way, I went back and had a quick look through the log again. The ring on top of
the optical drive is particularly fine, indeed beautiful.

 

How did I miss this log? Awesome design, and looks well on its way to fruition! Subbed

 

Hehe I can see what you mean. Regarding the front.. it will be made out of one single piece of alu and it will be flat with round edges and milled grooves. Therefore, no pain in the ass radius to carve out and hopefully I can use the mill one the whole piece. Theres just one problem. I think the front is too large for my rotarytable, and to make the round corners I think I will have to build some special rig using a normal hand router.

Well my updates havn't been that regular so that's probably why Thanks for the comment and sub

 

Really appreciate the detail picts! From the "finger sander" as you call it, to the last pict! And that last pict is the money. Shows the feathered edges with gaps at the end to the filled product in the middle. Damn fine work! X100! Multiple reps to you.

 

Sure looked a lot of elbow grease to make the lines vanish & become smooth, awesome chunk of progress GNU .

 

Thanks, glad you like the pics since I was not shure they were good enough.

Yeah my hands were a bit sore afterwards. Thanks

 

looking good as always !
must have been a hell of a job to sand everything down !

 

thanks yep..I thought the machine would speed up the process alot but that wasn't the case, so there was some elbow grease needed for shure :S

 

No radius on the face?


Give it a week. You will forget about how tough the filing was.

 

Exactly.. from the side, the face of the case will have the same curvaceous profile as THIS persian cat.

I had thoughts about making it the same curve as the top but desided to keep it flat since a curve would probably make it way more complex and harder to do by hand.

 

don't forget me, Gnu ;_; - Quote from ProtoHype

 

Haha don't worry. I'm actually redesigning a new backplate for this project right at the moment, and I'm also trying to figure out the design of the case foot. So it's still in progress just that there isn't any machining taking place and not much to show. But updates will come in a near future for shure.

 

AARGGGH Skimlinks.

 

what tha..I hate those. It seams like it dissapeared when I edited the post. Is there anything I can do to avoid them? Or how does these things work

 

I dont wont to wait more time to see the bakplat i want to see it now m8 hehe good luck m8 and cant wait to see the result on it //Dahl1n

 

haha easy now... I can see why you have this special interest in this backplate