Now this is some DIY going on right here. The final Mr. Remoto metal box getting beat into shape. It still needs some tweaking here, and there.
That looks good, luv the vise. But it’s time to build a break…
@Mat_Helm
I keep telling myself I don’t make enough metal boxes to justify a brake. I really don’t. This is probably the most ambitious metal box I’ve ever made. I had very exact specifications it had to meet. It didn’t come out perfect, but it’ll do the job. It looks good in its spot too.
I’m moving forward here, and making steady progress towards my goal. Tomorrow I’ll make the face plate, and start wiring it up.
Really after the face plate I don’t have to make anything else to finish this project. I think all of the fabricobbling will be done then. It will just remain to assemble everything.
Well, I do have to scrounge up the wire that needs to go between the remote control box, and the electrical cabinet. I might just cut up a couple of extension cords, and use that? I have some pretty crappy 16 gauge cords that will work fine. I think I need 6 wires going between the boxes? So two lengths with three wires a piece should do it. Some zip ties, and Bob’s your auntie.
@Paul_Frederick The real question is how many boxes, etc. would you make if you did have a break? I know that like me, you surely have lots of scrap laying around that you might would use here n there if you had a break. I’m still getting around to building one out of angle iron. Just need to finalize a design…
@Mat_Helm
Probably not that many. I only demand a metal enclosure when I am dealing with mains powered electricity. If it is low voltage then I’m good with anything. All the juice in Mr. Remoto will be line current too. Even the power for the LEDs. https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-i1Id0Hve0Ew/WBaIV77qV3I/AAAAAAAABzc/NPmTAWsUwbEVErXQS0bC_s0Rw7wswvgVQCL0B/w824-h659-no/CapDrop.jpg It is all 120 VAC. So this all has to go into a metal box. The front panel is going to be plastic though.
If I was to make a brake I’d make a finger brake. Because I only make these stupid little metal boxes.
But what I do to make boxes now is I take some heavy stock, C clamp it on bend lines, then hit the metal over with a hammer. Good enough.
@Mat_Helm https://youtu.be/qOdRej3579M this didn’t seem to bad
@Jarrid_Kerns
That guy would freak out in my workshop. I probably have 20 different power tools that could have cut a pocket in that angle iron. But I’d have only considered one for the job myself. My mainland RF-32 clone http://i.imgur.com/jXSFT.jpg
@Paul_Frederick I like your method. Getting all bogged down in finding the “right” tool for the job just kills too many projects. Clamp it and beat it with a hammer I say… and by “hammer” I mean something with a handle and mass.
@James_Newton
I do have a fair number of hammers. That makes it easy for me to pick a hammer for a task like this. Or three. Maybe four, come to think about it? Yeah, I don’t think I used more than four different hammers on this project. I probably could have done it with just one, or two though.
No claw hammers were used in the commission of this work http://i.imgur.com/LwFCaOo.jpg
Towards the end of this project I needed a little piece of DIN rail, but I couldn’t think of where I might have any. So I made myself some of that. I mostly corked it, with a chisel. Not too hard to do really. As long as you don’t need a long length, at any rate. I just needed enough to hold one relay.