OB Project Design Started, Help Requested.

[DQ828]

Originally Posted by 56oval

Love your work Mr D .
Finding the right fasteners can be a pain .I like what's offered for tricking out motor bikes .

Titanium, Stainless Steel, Aluminium Fasteners & Motorcycle Bolts | ProBolt

Cheers
Mal

WOW, all the searching I did & never once found them in a search. Thanks for the link.

[56oval]

Some of their range comes out from the UK .I used the SS tappered socket cap on the top plates of my amps .


How did you go with the paint selection .
Cheers

[DQ828]

Originally Posted by 56oval

Some of their range comes out from the UK .I used the SS tappered socket cap on the top plates of my amps .


How did you go with the paint selection .
Cheers

I'm still pondering the paint, I have a bit of time before it's needed.

I had Mister Plywood cut up the sheet to make the bass boxes from, which required 45 degree cuts on the corners for joining & they cut them out of square! so I took them back, they tried again, & in the end gave up as they couldn't 45's square with there mega saw!!!.

I imagine it will be some months before they are finished, they look simple enough but based on personnel experience they will take at least twice as long as I think

I'm also playing with my BIII/Arduino audio remote control Preamp which is lots of fun and surprise, surprise, time consuming

I'm about to start a thread re same but have run out of energy for today, cleaning the house in exhausting.

[DQ828]

I spent the better part of Saturday sanding the burn marks out caused by the router bit. I'm glad I used a sharp bit otherwise I would have spent the better part of the weekend doing it. I have applied a couple of coats of lacquer to protect the pieces while the carbon fibre etc is applied.

At the moment you can see the plywood edge which was always going to be covered with paint, but at the moment the jury is still out on the final finish for the exposed plywood edge. Building the panels from solid timber was never really an option as it is too unstable and hard to deal with.

Getting the MDF cut for the woofer boxes has been a real drama, after Misterplywood declared they couldn't do it. I took the pieces to a friends joinery shop & he trimmed them up on his much less expensive saw & they are fine?? EXCEPT now the box is fractionally too small, 1mm, yes folks 1mm. Which means the driver won't fit in with it's rubber surround in place, which adds about 5mm to the overall diameter.

I decided to go with a key join on the corners so have made up a jig for the router table as per the photos.

To be continued next weekend.

[56oval]

Beautiful work Mr D .

Cheers

[DQ828]

Originally Posted by 56oval

Beautiful work Mr D .

Cheers

Thanks

Are you building anything at the moment?

[56oval]

Originally Posted by DQ828

Thanks

Are you building anything at the moment?

Not at the moment . Waiting for the bass amp circuits to be finished .

Last Wednesday I had shoulder surgery ,so out of action plus I can't pick up my amps to work on to heavy need to build lighter amps .

Cheers

[DQ828]

Originally Posted by 56oval

Not at the moment . Waiting for the bass amp circuits to be finished .

Last Wednesday I had shoulder surgery ,so out of action plus I can't pick up my amps to work on to heavy need to build lighter amps .

Cheers

I thought the weight lifting was done by the missus

[56oval]

Originally Posted by DQ828

I thought the weight lifting was done by the missus

I'm at her mercy now .The R1 amp have been commisioned so I have to be nice so she can pick them up .

Cheers

[Andy17]

Well, I had to look into this thread
I must say that Im really impessed by the qualtity of your woodwork!
It looks really great