Long time no see. Upgrade time.

OK quick post... So the wood machined lovely. Apart from the fact the initial ones were too big because divvy here forgot to take into account they needed to drop in. Cue a couple of nightmares, missing bits and cursing.

The carbon? whole different animal. BTW I masked up *and* followed the bit with the hoover the entire time (HEPA filtered Oreck portable). The 0.8mm bit snapped after about 1cm. So I had to up that to a 1.4. It machines lovely (noisy though, very noisy) but ERMAGHERD it is piffed. Like, totally piffed, we are talking wavy and differences of up to 1mm in small spaces. Still, it files nice and I did not get one of the horrific looking splinters anywhere inside of me so there is that.

I've ordered some varnish for the wood. Should be here tomorrow. And the plastic arrived for the LED part going behind it too, so on Friday I will let that machine.
 
OK so the entire piece has now been edge filed and sanded. Not to a polished finish, as that is what this will double as.

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I will also be using it on the wood. Today with any luck, as it says to leave 24 hrs between coats which will work out perfect. I even found all my brushes, result !
 
Well that did not go well.

Firstly I started the machine in the wrong place. Which caused it to pop out of the end of the piece, and catch on the piece when going back in. Which sent it off axis, and that meant I just wasted 2.5 hours for nothing. The lesson here is don't use an actual 3mm end mill bit as the machine is not strong enough.

Have ordered another piece, will now do it again in a couple of weeks.
 
Was my fault. Always is. Even though it struggled with the 3mm bit it would have been fine had it stayed in its tracks. As soon as it popped out of the side of the piece it was over. I decided to use a larger bit, and move the piece to the middle of the machine. I then failed to start it in the correct place.

I've decided to change the design of it any way to make it faster to machine. IE, I am going straight through the 5mm opal piece and will cut a 3mm back piece. This means it does only cutting, and not removing tons of material and taking 3 hours. Thankfully I have white 3mm in stock, so that will cost nothing.

Edit. Perhaps with the faster motor and PSU I have it would have been OK. However, now is not the time to experiment with that tbh. Once this is done I will start playing with scrap and the 20k motor and PSU.
 
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OK so I had a better idea. This will take around 50 mins.

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I am going to literally cut it all out. I will then do this (19 mins) to put behind it. In white (solid white) or maybe, just maybe, carbon. We will see...

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Yup 0.8mm bit ftw.

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So that is the back piece done. It has a bit of poke out where I have had to file the silver due to the mess up I had with that, but I can live with it..

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Me too mate. It’s dragging a bit :D

I finished the server yesterday and changed out the switch to the faster one. So that’s that side quest all done. What I do want to do though is pull the two 3.5” drives out of said server and replace with a 10 or 12 tb to mirror the entire ssd setup. I will do that next week.

The keycaps for my Huntsman Elite arrived and they are amazing. They’re called phantom and I found out it’s because you can’t see any letters or anything until they light up. So they look really sinister and stealthy. I might switch the keyboards tbh. I mean the Huntsman Elite is in a different league.

I do need to recover the palm wrest though. The pleather was peeling.

I also have another project to move onto as well. A 1550w Enermax Platimax. It needs a full rewire and I’m going to convert it to a RGB Lian Li fan with an internal controller and a custom fan grille.

It’s my only spare now and it’s in a bad way wiring wise. Perfect crap weather project really and I have no doubt it will last a lifetime.
 
It is aye. Going to leave it be for now though.

I also decided I want to make a cover for the TEC pump head, given it's so plain. Plenty of silver and carbon left so I will use that. Need to measure it though. I might even make it lit.
 
OK a quick update. I had totally forgotten where I was with this.

I contracted Covid about three weeks ago and it has been the nastiest thing to ever happen to me. I have never felt so ill tbh. I've only had my sense of smell and taste back for about two days, but I still don't feel anywhere close to 100%. Maybe 60..

Any way, I will be leaving here on Tuesday. At least I can't be passing anything on now. I've literally been here in the flat for 3 weeks. Which has given me serious cabin fever. Will be glad to get back to this.
 
Nope. I got to around 80% better about a week ago. I then improved 1% per day. Then, just to make things good mum got sick and now I have that too.

Oh joy. I've just been playing HL2 and mumbling to myself lol. At least I know it's not what I had, 'cause it's a minor compared to that. I would say it's mildly irritating, rather than feeling like I could drop dead at any moment.
 
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