http://4jdl.com/wp John's Words - looking for the best blend Thu, 02 Dec 2010 06:12:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://4jdl.com/wp/2009/09/16/soc-25/ http://4jdl.com/wp/2009/09/16/soc-25/#comments Wed, 16 Sep 2009 06:18:40 +0000 John http://4jdl.com/wp/?p=325

it bugs me that I haven’t been adding photos here as much as I imagined

but I am pleased about the pace of many other hobbies

and the confluence of some

excited about a light box I’m designed in my head

and should really capture more ideas onto paper or in the computer

before some ideas fall off the ends of my mind

white plexiglass #2447 is what is used for lightboxes or X-Ray viewers

or light installations which is funny how I found out

as I wondered about what the best way to search that was

as I ‘gestured’ by accidnet on my laptop’s touch panel and it jumped to the bottom of an Ebay listing and there it was

a few clicks later ordering a piece of #2447 sized to the plywood I picked up earlier last week

and hoping that a 16 x 19 inch lightbox is sufficient for my needs and that

1/8th inch plexiglass will be thick enough

and calculating whether I’ll need to glue it down

or allow it to float there

and how many bright white LEDs and what spacing will be best to illuminate the box

yet not have hot and cold spots

and trying to figure out how to attach some kind of netting or plastic to keep dust from flying out when etching, or other dremel like activities

and sizing shop vacs

and thinking about angles for other lights but not introduce glare onto clear arylic

then the Cstream thinks about other projects made do-able by the perfect lightbox with

a debris vacuum, and under and over lighting, and raised edges, and some kind of plastic netting to keep dust down.

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