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Tom Umney
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Posted: 12 July 2005 at 5:06pm |
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The cutout sheet doesn't say if its in mm or cm or inches????? Also where can I get 15mm birch ply at the cheapest price???? And as I can't afford a tablesaw so can I use a special mitre circular saw with a workbench instead??? Last but not least what do you use to seal around the joints and flare in the punisher??? silicon sealent??? Cos I do NOT want air leaks vus making it sound crap and damaging the driver.
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james folkes
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wicked news dude. don't rush to finish them, take your time with EACH
panel and only cut when you are certain. measure twice, cut once, as they say... the plans for the punisher are in cm except for some measurements in mm which are clearly marked. a nice circular saw and a couple of clamps are all you need to do most of the work. use a known straight edge like an original edge of an 8x4 sheet. mark all of your lines with a sharp dark pencil as accurately as humanly possible, check them lots of times at lots of points along their length. using some scrap wood, work out how far the saw cuts from the guided edge on both an inside (with the guide on the piece you are keeping) and out side (on the piece you're cutting off, the difference between being the thickness of the blade plus general waggle). clamp your guide on at the correct distance away from your line, check it again, and make a little exploratory nick with your saw. if all looks good, proceed. building my mt122 type things every piece took a long time. every time i got frustrated trying to get the guide in exactly the right place and just cut it anyway the bits that were even 0.25mm out were a pain in the ass to fit. with pieces cut really nicely and sensible glueing you shouldn't find you even need sealant, but any kind of non-shrinking caulk could be used if you were worried i suppose. get as many sections cut at the timber yard on a frame saw as possible, if you get cut all the sections that sit between the side panels with the same saw setting you need only cut/mitre them to length and you know the sides will go an perfectly. the punisher is a very complicated box, take your time and keep checking everything. i haven't built that many boxes and get succesively better with each attempt, i just about feel up to a punisher now, because even though i considered stuff like that feasible in the early days i don't think i'd have done that good a job because i hadn't discovered the whole circular saw, guide and pair of clamps revelation. james. |
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Tom Umney
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Are they much harder to build than scoops???? Because scoop bins is the most complex I built so far.
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Dom
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Even better - get piece of 18mm mdf or ply about 6" wide with a straight edge. Fasten that to a piece of 6mm mdf or ply about 12" wide. (but at least as wide again as the base plate of your saw... Now run the circular saw's base plate against the straight edge of the 18mm and cut through the 6mm ply. You now have a straight edge correctly spaced for your saw... Line the cut line up along the cut edge of the 6mm, clamp it down, and run the saw along the 18mm straight edge for a perfect cut... Make yourself a 2 foot one, a 4 foot one and another one with a batten across the bottom set at 90 degrees to the cut edge for cutting square... Or buy a table saw... There's at least one mitre over 45 degrees which isn't too easy with a circular saw... |
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whitehousejamie
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How are the HD215s coming along Dom? How many have you built / do you use?
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Dom
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Have 4 built at the moment, will be knocking up another couple when I can be arsed... Just finished some X1 variants which sit underneath them - I'll take some pictures tomorrow... But been sidetracked building cabs for some trance boy recently... |
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"It sounded like a million fire engines chasing ten million ambulances through a war zone and it was played at a volume that made the empty chair beside me bleed."
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james folkes
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you absolute genious. i am dumbfounded by the simplicity. you have changed my life.... I LOVE YOU! james. |
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Joe Grime
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Here Here, Great tip Dom, simlpicity in itself. Steve |
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Dom wrote:
Hey Dom, have you a spanish translation for what you said Cheers |
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Who you calling tranceboy?!!!
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My laser stuff: Frikkin Lasers
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Jez_Ultra
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never thought of doing that before, what a brilliant idea. was
that something discovered through experiment, or one of these mystical
secrets, which everyone except me know about.
Jez |
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Centauri
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It's called a Sawboard - they have been around for a while, and there
are plans and suggestions for them all over the net. I have also
made one for my router - makes dado joints a breeze.
Cheers Graeme |
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