Project: Deuce

I've also started experimenting with different types of lighting, these are what some vendors call pirahanna lights:
http://www.tech-daddy.com/wlog/deuce...nna_lights.jpg

http://www.tech-daddy.com/wlog/deuce...na_lights2.jpg

Neat thing about these lights is that they run off of 12v DC, and can be cut into blocks of 3. No resistors needed. Put a bit of double stick tape on these and put them where you want! these are stiff PCB material so they are not really flexible... but I'm going to be trying some other possible items later on...

And... OMG! I need to clean up my make shift router table... what on earth could I be working on that would create a mess like this?!!?
http://www.tech-daddy.com/wlog/deuce/router.jpg

Well... you are going to have to wait! I have more tools on order to hopefully bail me out of the jam that I have created. More on the results of this mess later! ;)

So, there you have it... more later on as I get to it!
-=TD

Ingenious idea for running the power lines. Keeps them equally spaced and looks really secure. Nice big update, Thanx TD

PS: can't wait to see what caused that mess..:p

omg...i saw this a long time ago and said to myself "don't look at it until it's finished!"

and i saw this today and was like oh yeah, it must be done. I wonder how it came out?

And it's not done :( Now you're gonna have me anxiously checking this thread and my email to see new updates :(

Good job though man! I can't believe some of the things you do..

Sorry Trunks! Dont mean to keep teasing ya!
This thing is going to take me a while, as there are going to be severalt things that I will prototype before I build. That additional work, with my additional real life job workload seriously hampers my ability to make good, regular progress on this build. but it is progress none the less! ;)

I have some parts that I need to order from China in a few weeks... that is likley going to take a little shilt to get here, but I can keep on plugging on! Glad you like what you see!

Taztg - because I like you, I'll give you a bit of inside info into the mess. I've been carving and routing and filing and sanding piece of 1/4" acrylic that I was HOPING would have some *****en flames in it... but my hands and my equipment just are not getting the results I want... so I am going to have to rethink my application, design my graphic that I want and digitize it, then hand it off to a friend with a laser cutter and see it come to life that way...

cant give more away than that, because it is a very unique part.

:)

no rush man, your work is top-notch and I just can't wait to see how it turns out. You're very creative and innovative. I wish I could do what you do

Wish I had friends with Laser Cutters and Air Painting Equipment. :(
Flames in Acrlyic. I liked some of the layed colored acrlyic Mods especially when lighted just right. can't wait to see what your up to.

Wow, that's sick. Great job.

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Originally Posted by Devastator

Wow, that's sick. Great job.

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Hey everyone, meet my Bro from Canada.. Wassup DEV..

Tech-Daddy is one great Modder and has lots of wonderful tips rumbling around in his head. We just haven't figured out how to get them all out.. ;)

"You" haven't figured out how to get them outta my head??!?!

So your the one I can blame for my inability to empty my brain?!?!
LOL!!!
;)

Yeah... it's a bit of a sickness that I have.

I have *finally* come to the decision that I made that mess of blue acrylic... and I will have nothing to show for it. :(

So, I sat down for a few hours and taught myself some stuff in photoshop, and Corel Draw...

And came up with a file that I can use to cut what I was trying like hell to create manually (without much success mind you!)

I'm going to show you guys here what I'm up to... and *hopefully* in a week or two, I'll have the acrylic cut, shaped and looking like I hope it will. My main concern is going to be strength, and will the thin spots hold up.... I dunno. I've never done this before! ;) Matter of fact, I don't think anyone has done this before... so, there may be a reason this has "not been done before"... :)

So... keeping in mind that this is going to be cut through 1/4" transparent blue acrylic...

http://www.tech-daddy.com/wlog/deuce...tand_proto.jpg

The rad will be supported by 4 legs, one for each corner. My plan is to have the rad further back on the top of the case, and the front legs actually at an angle progressing from the leading edge of the top, up and back to the rad.

Most all of the flames will be heated and bent.

The long side between the front and back legs will be bent down to the side and bottom edge of the long side of the 240 rad these will adorn. Those flames will actually wrap under the rad and lick around the fans on the underside, providing a set of supports for the rad to rest in. The ends will be heated to fold down and encapsulate the rad.

There will be no screws holding this together, the rad will be completely wrapped in acrylic flames and held in by the heating and bending of the flames to make them hold the rad in place.... that is my plan at least!

The legs will wrap through the hole I cut in the top, and then bend into a bracket that I am in the process of designing. I am hoping to keep this whole attachment mechanism screwless and clean.

There are plans to light this thing with LED's, but due to the density of the material, I've been having a bit of an issue getting good results illuminating the material... but if I can get the edges polished properly, then the light will hopefully flow from the edges....

but this is what I have been working on, and I think I am really, close to having 1 or 2 to prototype with and see if it will work!

Wish me luck! I've also got my sons pinewood derby happening tomorrow, and I need to wrap up on the weights in that car tomorrow... WHEEEEE!!! Lots of garage time over the past few weeks! And I've almost got something to show for it!

Hold on just a bit longer guys!

Man, thats going to be tough. Heating and bending all those flames. Hope you have something to heat them evenly and to bend them evenly. Good Luck with this and hope it works sounds awesome.

Wow, as always, amazing stuff.

As always, you make the minor mods that I do look like dust. Lowly, lowly dust. ;)

Keep up the amazing work! **thread subscribed**

If Tech-Daddy can't do it, no one can!! :p :D

you guys rock! :)
First time in a long time that a weekend has rolled around that was not :
1) Too cold to paint
2) Too humid to paint
3) Too busy with family
4) Too busy with work

Well... those things were not in the works on Sunday! Yay!

Got some time to go clean my neglected airbrush and try to fix it... and got it working much better! I still have a minor hanging issue with it... but it will get better and I continue to work on it.

So, after cleaning, I sprayed black over the 1st set of flames that I experimented with, and tried v2.

Came up with this:
http://www.tech-daddy.com/wlog/deuce/flames_2ndTry.jpg

http://www.tech-daddy.com/wlog/deuce...s_2ndTry_b.jpg

Not bad, for my second time *ever* working on laying out flames freehand. I learned a lot. And will apply it to the next panel I experiment with. Hopefully I'll get back out there in the garage this week, and spray some more while the knowledge is fresh in my head.

I know it aint pro... it was more a concept for color and application. Was not intended to be smooth, as the layer I painted over on the bottom was not smooth, and I got some stuff on my french curcves that attached itself to the surface of the panel... no biggie.

But these pics have 2 layers of clear to allow me to see what paint would show after the CC process....

Sounds like a good weekend. A Modder being able to play with his modding tools. I think its pretty cool how it looks 3d and the Green/Black is pretty nice.
Keep up the practicing an dpretty soon you will be a professional>>;)

Wow... seriously... you should do this full-time! :eek: