Scratch Build – In Progress Project: Blue Horizon - "MOTY" Nominee

Oh you lucky doggy.

 

Yeah hehe , cant wait to try it out.

 

this is just so wrong...

 

I forgot to say we will be selling the old milling machine for around £400, if anyones interested please PM me and I'll give you more details.

 

hmmm... you selling the real estate to house it too? and I hope postage is free

Nice new machine

 

Congratulations on the new toy.
I feel like BT has developed a kind of mill peer pressure.

 

lol,

Progress has finally started again, I began my printing out a template from Sketchup and taped it to an acrylic strip:



I then milled it out:







Unfortunately I forgot to clamp the end of the second piece :



I then finished the soldering on the LED's:



Heres both the acrylic and front door panel:



I didn't mill the diagonal parts so I can file them down bit by bit to make it fit perfectly:



I found wrapping sand paper around a file works better than the actual file



I then used a ball end cutter on the dremel to cut a channel out for the LED wires, its abit messy but it wont be visible when Im finished:









I then glued the acrylic onto the side of the front panel, in preparation for the JB weld:



I then soldered and glued in the wire for the LED's:

 

Very nice wire routing .

 

This build is going to great when its finished.

 

You have an amazing eye for details!

 

Thanks everyone

The new acrylic and alu hasnt arrived yet so I started work on the fan again. I began by cutting a block to size:



I then milled down the ends to make them smoother:





I then milled off the corners:



Then drilled a guide hole:



And then drilled it all the way through:



I then widened the hole for the bearings:





I then glued the bearings in:



I stuck some neoprene on the bottom just to test the fan, and it works great:





It justs need attaching to the side panel now, once the side panel is made.

 

Now, that's one amazingly beautiful fan!

 

Nice.

 

Flipping awesome fan Graham . This is sooo on track to be uber cool .

 

very nice build!! gonna be awesome!

 

When I saw that led acrylic piece I was like "no way you can finish this piece!" but you did it!!! So difficult without a cnc or laser as its really thin! And the fan.... wow bro you amaze me all the time!! Mod on my friend

 

wow...
don't even know where to start. what a great project. love the... well, everything

 

Thanks everyone , the fan looks even cooler with LED's behind it, but I'm saving thoughs photos for some later eye candy

I actually tried to get that acrylic and the next part I'm gonna do made with a laser cutter but they said it was too thin.

Thanks ColdzeroTeam


The part is very harder, I now have to cut out some 5mm wide strips of 1mm aluminium to match the top and front panels. I've spent 6hr or should I say I wasted 6hr just trying to figure out how to make them, thankfully I've found a way though and the results will be posted tomorrow.

 

Why can't I have this level of skill?

My dremel work is pretty subpar compared to all this stuff!

Ah well as soon as I finish off my Phantom I'll upload it anyway

 

Ah it's not 100% a matter of skill although it is in operating a manual mill & a lathe nicely & having a good plan (design) to follow.

I'm personally loving seeing what people with the access to upper level tools are making though, great stuff .

The amount of cutting discs you'd get through to get a really rough version of some of these parts would be sheer madness be better to use a hacksaw & files for some bits but round parts I believe need a lathe to do great parts, think I want to get a lathe more than a mill for my next tool, mills are too expensive for a hobby so I'd get a router instead & get good at using it .

I started off using a dremel & a couple of other basic tools & found the dremel to be good for thin materials but useless on thick materials, but dremels have many many other uses as demonstrated in the wire management channel on this .