Bruce | August 25, 2008
Cutting the aluminum is really easy. Snip the left and right of the cutout, and cut lengthwise a few stronkes, then bend the metal back and forth and it will come right out. Take your time cutting…just because the maker gave you 10 fingers, doesn’t mean you should take a couple off. A good shot [...]
Bruce | August 25, 2008
My makeshift table. I squared the sheet to the table I penciled all the measurements FIRST! THEN after I checked and double checked I scribed them in… Aluminum is not very forgiving Here are some of the tools I gathered for cutting the metal…But then realized I didn’t need them. All I used to cut [...]
Bruce | August 24, 2008
Well I’m ready to test out my chestplate design…so I made a paper miniature to check it out. Came out great! Of course I cant refine it until I make the full size version. I plan on making a full size poster board version before giong to the sheet metal. But it looks like this [...]
Bruce | August 23, 2008
It has become apparent that a slight modification has to be made if the chestplate is going to be able to open. By removing two parts of the front of the faceplate, this will allow for the chestpplate to open up. Its a real simple mod, a couple cuts and a grind later and its [...]
Bruce | August 21, 2008
I picked up this display screen from ebay, I am thinking of using the PDA to operate the functions I mentioned in my last post, but using this for the display because it’s a nicer and bigger screen than the PDA screen.
