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Registered Member #2893
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I done and found the hammered paint.
Accidentally put too many coats on the control panel face of the box so it's less bumpy than the rest of the box, but not that noticeable. To hell with bi-color, this looks awesome as it is.
So far no cat hairs on the paint, and no loss of consciousness from all the xylene fumes in the basement. Thanks for the tip x-ray.
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Joined: Sun Nov 21 2010, 02:04AM
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Your panel looks great! I used hammered paint on a panel that I made for my vacuum gauge about 10 years ago, and it's holding up very well. It's even resistant to oil being splashed on it!
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That thing looks industrially awesome!
For the cable connecting the two boxes, I would wrap the wires in electrical tape and put them in that plastic conduit stuff they sell. Partially because it looks cool and should fit in well with that box, and partially to protect any body parts next to the wires on the off chance that they go HV.
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Grenadier wrote ...
I done and found the hammered paint.
Accidentally put too many coats on the control panel face of the box so it's less bumpy than the rest of the box, but not that noticeable. To hell with bi-color, this looks awesome as it is.
What's the etch a sketch for? Bored while the paint dries?
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Yeah pretty much.
The paint doesn't go a very long way, I need to get another can to put another coat on the other half of the box. The paint is dry on both pieces, however it is still soft and probably will take a few days to harden.
Turns out that the 'paint' is lacquer with some dye and powdered mica mixed in. Therefore I won't need the finishing coat of lacquer, so good news there.
I now need to pick a box for the head part of the machine, hopefully it will be smaller than this one but I might have to get the same size box if I can't fit the flyback inside the smaller one.
Been writing the code to control the machine, so far it looks like it will work. Has a safety countdown and stuff. Still have to find some octal bases, and as for making the cable ideally I'd like to find cloth covered tubing, but that might be a long shot.
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Of course the can never told me to not put another coat on after the paint dried... everything flaked off the box (not the lid, which I did not paint again)
So... after a bunch of acetone I stripped the paint off the box and put some new stuff on. Oh well, sht happens.
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Grenadier's big thread of Röntgen related shenanigans
