ShinOBIWAN said:
I'll bet you work alone..
I've never had a problem when I work alone, clear-headed or "semi"-sober.
Add one or more people though and there seems to be a geometric progression for "occurences".
ScottG said:
I had to laugh when I read that.
I'll never forget it...
... it was sometime ago now, probably 9 years, I'd just passed my driving test and was the proud owner of my first car. Like pretty much every youth at that age, I thought it would be 'cool' to stick a pair of dirty great 12" JBL subs in the boot to shake the crap out of the car, the passengers and generally look a knob to onlookers - I thought it was cool back then but now I've got more taste. Anyway, I decided to cover the the sub with carpet material that matched the boot interior and had a mate on hand to help stretch and hold the material whilst I trimmed it to size with a Stanley knife... a couple of cuts later and he was holding his thumb under the cold water tap after I sliced it accidentally.
No drink involved, just teenagers without much sense of safety. Over the years you tend to build something up called common sense 😀
Oh and looking back now, man those subs sounded bad.
You know you've done too much speaker building when you have more routers than Norm Abram 🙂
A sliding mitre saw is on my list of toys to get. I just can't get accurate enough with the mitre fence on my small table saw.
A sliding mitre saw is on my list of toys to get. I just can't get accurate enough with the mitre fence on my small table saw.
BlackCatSound said:
Yeah, I had that same problem early on last year.
The mitre is pretty much responsible for the Perceives, without it I wouldn't have bothered even trying.
Buy a good one and you'll notice the accuracy and repeatability of cuts. I'd recommend the Bosch GCM10SD:
http://www.tooled-up.com/Product.as...cm-10sd-254mm-Sliding-Compound-Mitre-Saw-240v
Its bang on everytime. I used an upper range Dewalt not long back and it was OK but actually thought it felt cheap and not particularly comfortable to use and this was despite it costing a small fortune. No comments on accuracy because I was only cutting railway sleepers.
I'd hope it was accurate for that cost!! Looks good though 🙂
Maybe I'll treat myself to it when I start building the final boxes. Until then expanding PU glue will rescue my questionable joints 😉
Maybe I'll treat myself to it when I start building the final boxes. Until then expanding PU glue will rescue my questionable joints 😉
Beer and power tools...
About beer and power tools...
My table saw starts to talk to me when I'm hosed. It tells me it wants to eat my extremities. So, I avoid it like my wife when I'm loaded. My router remains friendly though, it assures me that I'll be physically okay - but laughs out loud about my results...
LOL
Regards,
Tom
About beer and power tools...
My table saw starts to talk to me when I'm hosed. It tells me it wants to eat my extremities. So, I avoid it like my wife when I'm loaded. My router remains friendly though, it assures me that I'll be physically okay - but laughs out loud about my results...
LOL
Regards,
Tom
BlackCatSound said:
I sat in awe as I watched a true cabinet maker at work who was repairing the half height facia panels when I was helping out renovating a grade 2 listed building , surprisingly he had little in the way of power tools and was pretty much using the same skills that originally created them over 100 years ago. I'd kill for skills like that. What did I do? Hung a couple of doors and made the tea 😀
pt,
If your wife wants to eat your extremities, I suggest you reconsider her and the tablesaw. I much prefer a tool where the blade is stationary and the work moves... as opposed to the moving blade and stationary work.
😉
If your wife wants to eat your extremities, I suggest you reconsider her and the tablesaw. I much prefer a tool where the blade is stationary and the work moves... as opposed to the moving blade and stationary work.
😉
BlackCatSound said:
There's a real sweetner though that alone makes the asking price reasonable - a little trigger on the handle that activates an electromagnet and releases the guard. That of course means that you don't have to stretch your thumb to manually operate the guard - idle bliss. Sounds simple enough but I've actually gone to use other mitres and couldn't figure out why the guard wouldn't open - I've got that used to it.
If I bring a woman back home on a Friday night, its normally the first thing I show them. 😀
ShinOBIWAN said:
Soon you'll be able to show them the subwoofer..
..pointing at the cone and saying: "see, its ribbed for your pleasure." 😱
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ScottG said:
Soon you'll be able to show them the subwoofer..
..pointing at the cone and saying: "see, its ribbed for your pleasure." 😱
LOL NICE! just wat i wanted to hear to make me laugh 🙂
Altho the cone Looks F-ugly. I bet it sounds good 🙂
My guide for the router slipped a bit whilst doing the center line. Ended up having to fill it all and start again. Hopefully it looks OK once sprayed, looks poor at the minute though.
I'm beginning to regret going with 45mm walls all round and the somewhat 'carpet bombing' attitude to bracing. The cabinet sure feels very dead and solid but it weighs a ton. I can *just* manage to carry this section alone, its more the size that awkward than the weight. I've carried subs around weighing 40kg and this feels about the same weight. Add the top section, drivers and the base and I'm guessing it will be about 70kg. Not sure if my back will take that and god knows how I'll shift it around without touching it too heavily after spraying.
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I'm beginning to regret going with 45mm walls all round and the somewhat 'carpet bombing' attitude to bracing. The cabinet sure feels very dead and solid but it weighs a ton. I can *just* manage to carry this section alone, its more the size that awkward than the weight. I've carried subs around weighing 40kg and this feels about the same weight. Add the top section, drivers and the base and I'm guessing it will be about 70kg. Not sure if my back will take that and god knows how I'll shift it around without touching it too heavily after spraying.
An externally hosted image should be here but it was not working when we last tested it.
This is one of those times when you just need others and hope it doesn't go wrong. The last thing you'll want for the rest of your life is a slipped disc. 
Dead cabinets are heavy, a by-product of a good desgn 
One tip: Install wheels.
I found some sweet low profile casters for my project. The speaker
box will be raised 1" from the ground but can be rolled around.
One tip: Install wheels.
I found some sweet low profile casters for my project. The speaker
box will be raised 1" from the ground but can be rolled around.
Not far off finished now:
The top section was out of shape compared to the bottom, I suspect its because I was little off on the angles for the center section, not by much but it makes a difference when you have so many angled cuts all relying on each other to be spot on. Ideally a CNC cutter would really be neccessary for this type of work. I got creative and just planed the surfaces back into true with the bottom section and then sanded smooth:
At this point its definitely too heavy for one person to lift safely, I ended up calling internation rescue and they saw me right, cheers go to Virgil in Thunderbird 2 for that 🙂
An externally hosted image should be here but it was not working when we last tested it.
The top section was out of shape compared to the bottom, I suspect its because I was little off on the angles for the center section, not by much but it makes a difference when you have so many angled cuts all relying on each other to be spot on. Ideally a CNC cutter would really be neccessary for this type of work. I got creative and just planed the surfaces back into true with the bottom section and then sanded smooth:
An externally hosted image should be here but it was not working when we last tested it.
At this point its definitely too heavy for one person to lift safely, I ended up calling internation rescue and they saw me right, cheers go to Virgil in Thunderbird 2 for that 🙂
An externally hosted image should be here but it was not working when we last tested it.
An externally hosted image should be here but it was not working when we last tested it.
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