The rubber gasket that runs around the face of the boss is made from 4 flat strips of rubber 1.5mm thick. The enclosure and lid then received 1 coat of undercoat and a few coats of Battleship. It’s actually really good quality spray paint - and only $6.99 a can! I also found the same spray paint at an art shop called Eckersleys (although it was $9.99 here. The paint colour used for the enclosure is `Battleship Grey’ and after much searching I found a brand of spray paint called `IronLak’ at Officeworks (that had a colour called `Battleship’. The corners are shaped from solid blocks of pine and all are fixed in position using PVA adhesive. The lid front face and sides are made from 3mm MDF. These are to hold the backing board in position. On the other side is an M5 nut which gets fixed into a counterbored hole (concentric with the Ø6mm hole) with two-part epoxy adhesive. In each corner of the enclosure is a square of 12mm MDF with a Ø6mm hole in it. It’s amazing how good the inside fillets look using this method! You can then sand the filler with a piece of sandpaper wrapped around a dowel with a slightly smaller radius. All outside fillets can be achieved with careful sanding, and to get the inside fillets I applied some ready-to-use multipurpose filler with my little finger. The boss on the front face is made from pieces of 20 x 8mm moulding. For extra strength I fitted 12 x 12mm mouldings all around the inside of the side panels. The four side panels are cut from 3mm MDF and fixed into position on the back panel using PVA adhesive. To make the Enclosure I cut the shape for the back panel from 6mm MDF. The Enclosure is basically a deep, rectangular box with two small mounting flanges top and bottom and a wide `boss’ all around the front face. sheet could now easily be determined from my drawing. sheet and created my own drawing from that. I did find them on another site for around $130, but I decided to make my own enclosure instead. During my research I found out that the enclosure is a Stahlin J1210HPL and on their website these cost around $170 + postage.
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