getting psyched for DIY night!

[jhale]

half price acrylic tubes $208.00

other parts to make your own skimmer $60.00

computer controlled "laser" machine at your disposal $30,000.00

metrocard to get you to DIY night in BK $3.00

advice from your friends on the best little reef site online, free

knowing your skimmer is going to be better than anything you can buy from any company, and knowing that fact will be posted for every other reefer to see,
priceless

 

[spykes]

LOL jhale good job.

 

[jhale]

I'm going to make some special nameplates to put on our best work

 

[spykes]

hahha cool man cannot wait for these events to happen, i believe this is a scheduled thing like a meeting, instead of just once because we need stuf built.

 

[jhale]

I was in lowes today, I saw some nice tables saws perfect size for making the stuff we want. though I have an old craftsman, I've become kind of a tool snob. I figure if I kept a small table saw, and router table, along with the laser I can make just about anything. i would not mind having people over when the weather is nice. I have that big roof deck we can cut stuff on then glue up the projects inside. of course if you cut off a finger st.vincents is right down the street to sow it back on. I know they take Oxford, I've been there a few times myself

 

[nanoreefer22]

This sounds cool. Where is it going to be held at and what nights. I would love to come just check it out, even if i dont get to build. It should be cool to learn how to.

 

[jhale]

I think aaron is hosting the first one, april 30th? the 24th seems to be taken up by paintball.
I'll need this much time to get ready, I have some projects I need to work on. the kind that pay my bills

 

[cali_reef]

jhale,

what file format does that laser cnc take?

 

[jhale]

it's hooked up to coral draw 6, as long as the file is an eps format it will open it. probably a good idea to save a few different types of eps. I'll figure it out soon. I have just about every design program, so I can always convert the file's if I have to.

 

[aaron]

Yeah, I guess i am hosting it on the 30th if that's going to work out with Wedfr and Jhale? Let me know who wants to come and i'll PM you the details. Still have problems with the complete lack of tools, but i guess we could just pre-cut everything before hand and assemble them on the day?

 

[jhale]

aaron what's the parking like by you?

 

[jhale]

man, DIY night is getting spread out in a bunch of different threads, I did not want to start another one to confuse things, but i wanted to post this.
I thought it would be bad ass if we could put a cool logo on the stuff we make, so I started playing around with some designs. this is the first one, I'm sure I'll do a bunch more. I'll make them on the laser with some two tone material, so the etched out part would be black, and the background could be silver or whatever.



[ April 15, 2005, 09:21 AM: Message edited by: jhale ]

 

[joseney21]

love the design jonathan, looks very nice and original.

thanks for hosting the DIY night Aaron, i'll bring pizza and soda, or whatever else we can decide on as a group....

 

[ctxmonitor]

I wouild really like to come. As I haven't done any diy project for myself I would really like to take this opportunity to learn, learn and learn.

 

[jhale]

thanks Jose, i made a line drawing in photoshop of one of my photos, it turned out better than i thought it would.

ctx, your on the list

 

[spykes]

man i love your avatar and the logo hehhe.

 

[House of Laughter]

I like the avatar, but you missed the .com

House

 

[jhale]

I know, I left the .com off, I was thinking these would look cool on the front of our skimmers and reactors we make.
I didn't think the .com needed to be there. It makes us more like a club. I'd like to see a thread on RC with our best work shown, and then have a professional logo glued to it, hehe, people will freak out.
Here's what else I'm thinking, if we get good at making skimmers and reactors, maybe we can make it a side business.
I don't know if using mr.com's name is appropriate for that, but it could be a cool brand. It's obvious we have the talent and know how to do that here, I think finding the time would be the challenge. Is this crazy? I was talking about this with some of the guys at industrial plastics today, we met there to see if there were any good last minute deals, there weren't any. oh well.

[ April 15, 2005, 06:41 PM: Message edited by: jhale ]

 

[bad coffee]

Jonathan,
that logo would look so cool LAZER cut into the front of a skimmer!

BC

 

[House of Laughter]

Man, yeah that would look kewl etched into the skimmer body.

Awesome thinking

House