Re: So ya cheapskates know what ya missed.....

In article <HcN5f.6$Dq.764@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Dennis Peterson <dennispe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>No need for a hole in the glass if the shadow box idea is used - the
>movement would attach to the back panel of the box and the hands
>contained inside the box. The glass, being back-surface etched and out
>front in the box, can then be back-lit with led's or what ever. An r.m.h
>logo centered on the glass in a circle of numbers for the hours (or
>square pattern like a 1930's watch), a little color and imagery on the
>back panel inside the box, a brass plaque on the front to identify it as
>an r.m.h specialty, and you got a nice piece of furniture. I think a box
>depth of 1.5" or so and appx. 12" square and with a small full width
>drawer in the front to attach the brass plaque to would provide a rather
>dramatic effect. I could crank out a demo box from the scraps I have
>here - I have a real nice piece of clear cedar I'd been wanting to use
>to make a bent-wood box from that would work.
>
>dp

Oh Geez... Now's I got the bug goin' again... I gotta get through a bit of
short spell of fininshing off stuff already committed to, but I went out
in the shop tonight and gave the one corner I have left the "remaining
good, evil eye" as to ifn' I could get this stuff all set up again. I had
already started piecing together the laser 'puter about 3 weeks ago,
I gotta do a good once over on the laser, and the last stumbling block
is if I can get one of two galvo's (way overpriced servo's with the gold
mirrors on them) moving back in tolerance. The big problem with this
laser is that it was built to engrave vertical objects (it was a high speed
disk drive platter balancer outta Seagate). I gotta machine a right angle
optical bender to use it with my x,y,z table to do anything useful, and I
just ain't moving that quick these days. But winter is going to be here
real soon, and I'm going to be bored S*&%liss.. So, I guess I may as
well and try and get useful again, especially as folks seem to be snagging
up lighters and all this stuff with the reckless abandon of a polical party..
Keep in1co2he3re4nt@xxxxxxxxx handy and maybe send me some
dimensions and sketch of what you think would look snazzy along with
your prefferred email which I will keep to myself, and I will take it all
and plug it into my software and see if it makes any sense, and copy
you on it. I have some limitations with the Co2 laser I have here, it's more
for using on organic's like wood, glass, fabric. The lasers that I used for
killing chrome are in very cold storage back in MN, awaiting me getting
my act (and $$) toghether enough to truck it up here. I'm not real big
on taking a U-Haul over the rockies once October hits, so I gotta make
due with what I gots.. Actually, the Co2 can do some pretty nifty stuff
on leather...oh god, I'm gonna regret that.. And no, Co2 and bells don't
mix, that wavelength bounces off of anything gold/brass like bullets offa
superman..

Doug
Oh, remove the numerals out of the addy..
Tanks!


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