Not a bad idea either and the steel is a little thicker. How did you go with cutting the steel accurately. Did you use any specialised tools to do the cutting or did you just use the good ol tin snips ?
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I used tin snips and also my radial arm saw with a carbide blade for longer straight cuts. Cutting steel that way is not usually 'recommended' :D, but although it was very noisy, the cuts were very clean and the galvanized steel is soft enough that the blade survived quite well :lol:
I wouldn't try that with a table saw though, and anyway, the tin snips do a fairly good job as long as you are careful & don't cut all the way to the tip of the blade since it tends to bend the metal a bit near the tip.
Maurice
Hi Gwyn,
Can you please send me a copy of that article as well?
Would be great to have my TQ prepared for backlighting.
Thanks!
Sander
sander at vpilot dot net :cool:
Hi Gwyn
would be great if I could receive the e-mail as well.
Thanks a lot.
halde_99 "at" hotmail "dot" com
Hi Gwyn,
Would appreciate a copy of your backlighting article too.
Just about to start backlighting my mip.
thanks
Paul
pauljohnston at iinet dot net dot au
Gwyn
Thanks a lot man. These files are very helpful, for me especially the one about self made backlighting. Why don't you put it into the download section where everyone can download it?
Thanks again