Project: SR-2 Desk

Thanks for all the response, been around Overclockers for ages, but never used the forums, nice to have a warm welcome :)

should be finishing off the brackets tomorrow, then I can start putting some more frame together to make sure it all fits together with the panels. Then I need to make a few bits and pieces, some more angle sections for the centre chamber panels to mount to, and the DVD drive holder, power switch, all the boring stuff that needs to get done on the frame before I work out where everything else fits.

hopefully I'll post some pictures of the frame tomorrow, unless it doesn't fit together, In which case I'll be crying in a corner somewhere.
 
So the brackets are nearly done, I was worried about how long it would take to touch up the second side of the brackets...

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as there was a few of them...

then the realisation that I could just put some sort of jig on the vice :D

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And after that, it went quite a bit faster...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybwnemUCvfg&feature=youtu.be

then the crap lining of that cloud...

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40 of them with one side that need finishing :)

I managed 20 tonight before I got bored and am heading to the pub

thanks for reading :)

I think Typhoo has made a few sneaky appearances :P
 
RollerBall said:
Looks excellent, what do you do for a living though? I can't imagine a standard guy would have access to all that stuff.
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The workshop is my Dads, my whole family do stuff sort of like this I suppose.

Dad is currently building a 4 inch scale traction engine

My Brother is restoring a Fordson super major tractor and recently bought a mark 1 Daimler Ferret armoured car to do up too (His eyes are bigger than his tummy)

so my little desk is a bit on the small side really for this house, doesn't even weigh a ton...

And at the minute I'm not working, but before that (to pay for this) I was doing some contract mining work, before that I traded forex and before that I worked at Overclockers :P

Anyhoo, been out and about caving today so not much progress, should finish up the brackets later on, tomorrow I'll hopefully get some frame together and hope it all fits, if it doesn't Christmas will be ruined :P

thanks for the positive comments :)
 
Finally got the brackets finished, and started playing with the frame :) so I thought I'd throw up some pictures.

The start of the evening, find some space...

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lay some parts out and try to remember how you numbered everything...

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get the base together

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faff about for a while because you found some holes you forgot to thread up :) then wait till the morning as the light was so terrible the pictures looked like they were on the yellow submarine

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sit back and think... it's a bit big...

I've put this last image in as a bit of a teaser, I'm currently working through the panels cleaning up the edges and holes and then fitting them so those pictures will follow after Christmas :)

and... that feeling that it's a bit big soon disappears when you pop the motherboard tray in...

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Thank you for all the great comments and feedback :)

Have a great Christmas.

Sam.
 
Looks great so far. What is going to become of the midered edges? I assume you will put a piece there to fill the gap. One more question, why did you choose to fasten this desk together with brackets over welding it? Just curious thought might be a little sturdier with a little Tig action, or maybe your after some modular design?
 
I personally would still have bracketed the legs etc, but I would have been tempted to make the brackets internal, with an external round headed bolt. The bracket would have fit inside the tube and have a tapped hole to accept a bolt.

Tig would work on some sections, assuming the op can Tig weld, and has the required kit. Its quite a speciality!
 
I was looking at welding it but then did some working out, my room where it will be living has a door that is at 45 degrees and is 750 wide, with a small bit of the landing going to it, so if the whole desk was welded the legs would prevent it getting through the door, or at least all the way through.

so a welded desk with detachable legs... again the desk is 800x1500 so I would still have to put it sideways to get it through the door. with the way the upstairs landing comes to the room, someone would have to be awkward or flying to get it in :(

In the end I went for the fully dismember-able desk just so I could move it about on my own if need be.

And I started with very prominent joints in the design, with the joints being brushed or nickel plated then the design changed and then changed again etc. and I liked being able to see the joints but them be small if that makes sense? with the glass top so you can see the gubbins I wanted to see how the desk went together too but not have it thrown at me, so I went for small but visible joints:)

The angled section poking out the front will have some more box between them yea, but I need to decide where and what order I want to put the power switch/usb and reset in the right one and then mount the DVD drive through the left :)

The panels are going in really well, so I should have pictures up in a day or so (after Christmas probably)

Cheers for the questions guys :) and Happy Christmas
 
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