Hi All, hope you're having a good weekend. I've got a little more work done on the Sedan's interior.
This update covers work on fitting the photoetch centre console made in a previous post.
I'd already cut out the holes needed for the two main panels, so first step was to apply CA around the edges on the plastic then line up and place the brass pieces in place.
Next up I flipped the interior tub over and measured the width on the recess under the etch panel.
Suitable Marks were then made onto an 18mm x 30mm micropanel so I could cut it to fit the space.
I've been cutting these panels with a grinding disk in my rotary tool. I have a bench clamp designed to hold the tool in place which is great for this kind of job. It's far easier to offer the part up to the tool than trying to move the tool along a straight line.
I take most of the unwanted material off in the first pass, but don't go right up to the edge.
On the second pass I creep up on the line gently to get it nice and neat.
The edges are then refined with a hand file and test fitted, filed, test fitted, filed again until they fit well.
I make them a touch undersized as I'll be adding aluminium tape around the edges as a light blocker.
Once I've got the width down I peel off one side of the panels diffuser. The panels are like a sandwich with a core of an acrylic panel and the LED with a thin diffuser material either side.
I then cut a piece of aluminium tape and stick it down over the exposed acrylic.
The tape is then trimmed leaving a small lip all the way around the edges of the panel.
I then drag the panel along a firm flat surface so that the tape is neatly wrapped around the edge. This is repeated on the three exposed sides and any excess trimmed off.
The panel now fits in the recess to light the console and is completely, definitely, without doubt, 111% light blocked...
Wait... What!!!!
I forgot to cover the end of the light panel so it was spilling out from the back of the LED.
Little bit more tape...
...and it's looking great.