Quote Originally Posted by manu_D View Post
We would say a machine as in Jules Verne's novel. I am ready for the odyssey, and I do not leave the screen. Your engineering workshop is already an introduction in the dream.
wow..thx for your first post and the nice comments. Stay tuned and, I'll do my best to make this "novel" readable aswell

Quote Originally Posted by Mudgey View Post
Hey,

This is an exciting introduction to your build, and fantastic work so far. I don't have the patience or tools to craft things by hand! I am really interested in how you came about acquiring the anologue gauges, I have always prefered these over LCD gauges and would love to integrate them into my case.

Cheers!
Thanks..I love the analouge way aswell. The gauges that will be on the front of this build are from a coolermaster muskeeteer II. There will be some other aswell, but I havn't aquired those yet.



Ok
Time for an update of the DVD progress. This update is about the center ring that will hide the magnetic holder of the disk drive that is needed. It will also contain the Activity LED of the DVD drive. This is also the first real part created by the lathe. Since I yet have to by some aluminium material I had to use what whas laying around.

In this case. It was an old heatsink

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Starting to take shpe.

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Finished product.

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Milled two slots for the LEDs. These slots will not be visible and therefore I didn't put too much effort in the finish, as you can see. Also M3 holes are drilled and taped for mounting

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The middle disk.

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This is the acrylic LED ring to distribute the light. Some of the parts look rough but this part won't be vissible.

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All parts in there orders. The "wires" are the two red LEDs that will fit in the acrylic ring.

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Here you can see the LEDs mounted in the two slots with some hot glue. The wires are along the sides of the outer aluminium ring.

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This is a piece of difuser plastic and black paper added to help even out the light from the LEDs and make the background colour black when the LEDs are turned of.

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Finished LED ring

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This is the magnetic ring that will be placed on the inside of the plexi window and backside of the LED ring.

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more to come