Jul-21-2007
This is the camera. I took these pics with my phone.


This is how close I can take a picture with this cam! Right up on it! I really miss being able to do this. Check it out!

Got more stuff in the mail! Got all this from ebay. About $162 for all this. Look how clear the pic is!

130, 60mm x 60mm x 15mm fans. I got these for like,... $37 total. Thats 28 cents each!

Going to use these to design small compact stuff.


I got a lot of 10, 80mm x 80mm x 25mm fans. 25mm or 1" is the thickness of a common pc fan. I got the 80mm's for $29 total. Also,... I got a lot of 10, 60mm x 60mm x 25mm for $34 total.

The difference. I still have to get some 120mm fans.


10,... 40GB, 5400rpm, IDE Western Digitals for 71 total. Not the best drives in the world but they are cheap and they all work:) Will use them as props or tools for designing HDD cages and such. This way my final pics of the cages wont be empty. You know?


Here are some various socket bolts that I got from boltdepot.com. Four sizes,... 4-40, 6-32, 8-32, and 10-24. which in metric is M3, M3.5, M4, and M5. The lengths,... 1/2", 3/4", 1", 1-1/2", 2", and 3". I forgot to order the button head ones. I have to do that. These are being sent to alex.

Ok,... this is for Teyber. You wanted a pic of my scroll saw, here it is! It's actually my mothers. I have to get my own. It's nothing fancy man.

The blade,... here's where I get to show off with the camera. I forgot how many teeh per inch it is. But it's quite small.

Need a close up? Here you go. You see how the aluminum rubs off on the blade? This actually builds up and catches the alunimum as you cut, picking it up and slamming it down. This is why you should use some kind of cutting oil.

This is for gruntman,... close up of the bit I use as a milling bit to cut grooves for easier bending:) Now you can see what I've done.



Ok,... here's the bending thing I was trying to expain last time. You see the line with the letters? A: is the length of aluminum after the bend. B: is the length of aluminum of the bend. C: is the radius of the pipe your bending with. D: is the length of aluminum before the bend + the pipes radius. The ends of the bend are the lines before and after B. At those points the aluminum is straight. Now, you see where it says base to bend? After you make your bend. If you rest one flat side on a table and measure from the table surface up to EITHER line before or after B you get the base to bend line. For the pipe I used and thickness of aluminum,... I got 1-3/64". What is this number for? This is how you determine the length of A. Say you want this shield that has one bend to be a MAX of 10". You subract 1-3/64" from 10" and whatever you get will be the length of A. You see the line before A? Thats the very edge of your piece of aluminum. You measure from that edge. So from the edge you make a line at whatever length you get by subracting 1-3/64" from whatever your max height is. From that line you mark another line specifying the length of aluminum for this bend, which is 1-9/16". From that line you measure 53/64" and mark another line. This is the radius of the pipe your using. It's this line that you clamp your angle iron too as you seen me do in previous pics. For the length of D,... you do the same. figureout what you want you MAX length to be and then subract 1-3/64" from it. Whatever you get will be D. Understand? Now this will only work of 1/16" aluminum being bent over a pipe with a diameter of,.... [email protected]#$! I dont remember! I cant see it in the pic either! Crap. I'll tell you later when I go back. Wait? 53/64" + 53/64" = 1-21/32". LOL. The diameter ofthe pipe has to be 1-21/32". I got this pipe froma local home improvements store so it's got to be an standard size. Right? I dont know, just check it to be sure.

More showing off,... Base to Bend, length of bend, radius of pipe.



So yea. I didnt get much done this weekend:( I have off tonight. I am going to sleep a bit and then go back and get as much as possible done. I work sunday but have monday off. I will be working all of monday too. Oh my thumbs are 180px now.