{"id":11,"date":"2020-04-23T11:14:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T10:14:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T13:42:10","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T13:42:10","slug":"yet-more-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/co2laser\/2020\/04\/yet-more-skin.html","title":{"rendered":"The Build Part 6 &#8211; Yet More Skin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the top right panel, I marked out all of the required openings and then cut the two square ones with a knife and the round one with a hole saw before drilling any required mounting holes.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Laser-Skins15.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-85 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Laser-Skins15-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Laser-Skins15-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Laser-Skins15.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"text-align: center;\">The Arduino screen will have a cover\/surround that will hide the mounting screws.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Screenshot-2B2020-04-20-2Bat-2B18.09.41.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-86 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Screenshot-2B2020-04-20-2Bat-2B18.09.41-250x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Screenshot-2B2020-04-20-2Bat-2B18.09.41-250x300.png 250w, https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Screenshot-2B2020-04-20-2Bat-2B18.09.41-768x922.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Screenshot-2B2020-04-20-2Bat-2B18.09.41.png 853w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I am not entirely sure how the DSP is supposed to be mounted, but based on the supplied mounting hardware the picture below shows what I believe to be something along the right lines.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Laser-Skins16.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-87 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Laser-Skins16-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Laser-Skins16-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Laser-Skins16.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The piece of plywood is to protect the Dibond from the screws, the front edge has 3 tabs that allow the edge to slot into the 3mm Dibond.<\/p>\n<p>I then re-attached the right side panel for a more complete corner shot.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Laser-Skins17.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-88 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Laser-Skins17-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Laser-Skins17-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Laser-Skins17-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Laser-Skins17.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>My rear panel design differs only slightly from the skins plan mainly because of the air solenoid.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Screenshot-2B2020-04-23-2Bat-2B08.29.06.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-89 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Screenshot-2B2020-04-23-2Bat-2B08.29.06-300x114.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Screenshot-2B2020-04-23-2Bat-2B08.29.06-300x114.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Screenshot-2B2020-04-23-2Bat-2B08.29.06-768x293.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Screenshot-2B2020-04-23-2Bat-2B08.29.06.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>My version pushed the water inlet and outlet holes to the right, plus I have allowed for more mounting holes on the I\/O panel.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Screenshot-2B2020-04-23-2Bat-2B08.32.41.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-90 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Screenshot-2B2020-04-23-2Bat-2B08.32.41-300x113.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Screenshot-2B2020-04-23-2Bat-2B08.32.41-300x113.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Screenshot-2B2020-04-23-2Bat-2B08.32.41-768x289.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Screenshot-2B2020-04-23-2Bat-2B08.32.41.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The duct I am using is part of a kit for a tumble dryer exhaust extraction that I never used, so this is another free part, this duct is just under 100mm in diameter and I will also use the hose that came with the kit to attach to my bilge blower.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/bilge-blower1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-91 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/bilge-blower1-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/bilge-blower1-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/bilge-blower1.jpg 409w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>To cut the hole for the duct, I made use of my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drapertools.com\/product\/59470\/Expert-30mm-163mm-Adjustable-Hole-Cutter\">Draper adjustable radius hole cutter (#59470)<\/a>, this can cut holes from 30-163mm in diameter in a variety of materials up to 45mm thick (if drilled from both sides) and aluminium or brass up to 1mm thick.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Screenshot-2B2020-04-23-2Bat-2B09.03.30.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-92 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Screenshot-2B2020-04-23-2Bat-2B09.03.30-300x286.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Screenshot-2B2020-04-23-2Bat-2B09.03.30-300x286.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Screenshot-2B2020-04-23-2Bat-2B09.03.30-768x733.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Screenshot-2B2020-04-23-2Bat-2B09.03.30.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>There is a spring between the cowl and the drill that allows you to press slowly into whatever you are cutting and the cowl keeps the cutter perpendicular to the surface.<\/p>\n<p>The cowl is extremely useful when cutting holes in ceilings as it collects all of the dust that would otherwise fall on you.<\/p>\n<p>This image shows the cut part way through but with the cowl and drill removed.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Laser-Skins18.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-93 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Laser-Skins18-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Laser-Skins18-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Laser-Skins18-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Laser-Skins18.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The finished hole with markings for the fixing holes.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Laser-Skins19.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-94 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Laser-Skins19-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Laser-Skins19-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Laser-Skins19-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Laser-Skins19.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>For the I\/O cutout, I first drilled the corners that have a 15mm radius with a 30mm forstner bit<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Laser-Skins20.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-95 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Laser-Skins20-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Laser-Skins20-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Laser-Skins20-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Laser-Skins20.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>then joined up the holes using a Stanley knife and drilled the 3mm mounting holes for the I\/O plate.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Laser-Skins21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-96 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Laser-Skins21-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Laser-Skins21-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Laser-Skins21-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Laser-Skins21.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Next I drilled the holes for the water and air hoses, enlarged them to 16mm and then turned them into slots with a handsaw.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the finished back plate with the duct attached and showing the air inlet and water barbs, the bracket assembly for these is attached to a spare piece of 20x20mm profile to check everything fits.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Laser-Skins22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-97 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Laser-Skins22-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Laser-Skins22-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Laser-Skins22-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Laser-Skins22.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The bottom of the duct surround required a slight trim to clear the profile, the duct also makes use of a foam seal that came with it that also required trimming to size.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Laser-Skins23.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-98 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Laser-Skins23-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Laser-Skins23-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Laser-Skins23-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/04\/Laser-Skins23.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the top right panel, I marked out all of the required openings and then cut the two square ones with a knife and the round one with a hole saw before drilling any required mounting holes. The Arduino screen will have a cover\/surround that will hide the mounting screws. I am not entirely sure&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/co2laser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/co2laser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/co2laser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/co2laser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/co2laser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/co2laser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/co2laser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/co2laser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/co2laser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/co2laser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/co2laser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}