OP
- Joined
- May 23, 2001
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- Asteroid B-612
- Thread Starter
- #81
Atleast I'm making progress... DOH!
Foibles Foibles Foibles.
First my Bandsaw refuses to work so I waste 2 days fiddling with it. I gave up and the manufacturer accepted a refund order and had UPS pick it up from my house.
I was torqued because I hadn't put any of my tools to good use in a while. This was my only cutting tool for quite awhile, an inversly mounted jigsaw bolted through a shelfboard.
It works great for plunging cuts and it's how I cut both the arrow shape out of the side of the case, and the window above the DVD-ROM.
I wanted to get something done so I setup my new Drillpress and proceeded to work on the key-face plate for the keyboard. I cut it to fit the keyboard and test-fit it to mark all the key-holes. Then I center-punched 88 marks and then proceeded to drill and counter-sink 88 holes.
This took about 3 hours and when I was finished, it was gorgeous. Alas, NONE OF THE HOLES FIT MY FINGERS.
Not enough clearance was available for my fingers to effectively press through the holes. I went back to the drill-press to fix the problem with a larger drill bit, but it ate into the countersunk edges and tore it up.
Dismayed and annoyed I was cheered up a little by the arrival of my inky-dinky 4-inch table saw. It's so cute
It looks like the violent younger brother of an EasyBake Oven.
Tomorrow I'm heading to a Plastics Shop in Maryland to buy some scrap plastic at $2 per pound. This will give me the material I need to make the LCD lid and the new key-face for my keyboard.
Foibles Foibles Foibles.
First my Bandsaw refuses to work so I waste 2 days fiddling with it. I gave up and the manufacturer accepted a refund order and had UPS pick it up from my house.
I was torqued because I hadn't put any of my tools to good use in a while. This was my only cutting tool for quite awhile, an inversly mounted jigsaw bolted through a shelfboard.
It works great for plunging cuts and it's how I cut both the arrow shape out of the side of the case, and the window above the DVD-ROM.
I wanted to get something done so I setup my new Drillpress and proceeded to work on the key-face plate for the keyboard. I cut it to fit the keyboard and test-fit it to mark all the key-holes. Then I center-punched 88 marks and then proceeded to drill and counter-sink 88 holes.
This took about 3 hours and when I was finished, it was gorgeous. Alas, NONE OF THE HOLES FIT MY FINGERS.
Not enough clearance was available for my fingers to effectively press through the holes. I went back to the drill-press to fix the problem with a larger drill bit, but it ate into the countersunk edges and tore it up.
Dismayed and annoyed I was cheered up a little by the arrival of my inky-dinky 4-inch table saw. It's so cute
It looks like the violent younger brother of an EasyBake Oven.
Tomorrow I'm heading to a Plastics Shop in Maryland to buy some scrap plastic at $2 per pound. This will give me the material I need to make the LCD lid and the new key-face for my keyboard.
