Doh! didn't plan anyway near enough spaces up top - Will just keep them of the final stuff and add to the thread as it goes. That way new readers get an overview, followed but the detail and subscriber just read the end.
Anyway had some noisey time today, with just me in the house so thought I'd chop up some metal. Now I've not done any visiable metal work since school - and now I know why many of the good folks here send there stuff off to me lazer cut (better edge, quicker, less hassle, and cheaper if you don't already have the metal working tools.)
Well Armed with my drill and drellel cutting disks I set about cutting four straight lines to form a rectangle. Not an easy task but I tell you all what I've learned.
1) don't bother unless your a metal worker with a workshop.
2) don't use the disk as a guide to cutting a straight line (you use them up really fast)
3) let the the disk do the cuting - they brake easily if twisted or forced
4) take your time - took me an hour inc redoing some areas that were 2-3mm of my guide line
5) expect to repaint any areas that you drellel - unless your a pro
Anyway - Here's the silverstone SP05 with the window removed - an easy job with a set of small allen keys
Next up is the naff T2 side panel - with it's punched metal grill.
Window and panel cut down - the window I cut with a hack saw bladed stab saw - and even being really carefull I wasn't carefull enough - you'll see the crack later
Close up - still need so serious fileing to give it a straight line (a curved window may have been easier)
Just the two elements together - far from the finished artical
I'll not be doing visiable metal work again - just don't have the tools to do it justice in a reasonable timescale. Anyway with a week of fileing and sanding ahead of me, at least I've got something (relatively quiet) I can be doing in the evenings
