Turbocad's finally selling mods :)
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Everyone must be out vaping their BAMs or waiting for the next batch of BAMs !
The latter... on pins and needles
Aren't we all. Aren't. We. All.
I'll have some pics up in a bit, getting pretty close now
sorry to keep you guys waiting, my cloud storage is full which is how I transfer photos to the pc for upload, photobucket sucks on iphone, gotta clear out some storage to get pics up I'll try to do it a little later tonight
ok the mods are all completely done with all machine work, all shaped and sanded and are in the oven right now for the next 24 hours a final heat treating to anneal them, all that's left after the final heat treat annealing cycle is final finish sanding and polishing, then on to electronics install
I made a lot of little refinements in this batch, I also tweaked the door seems again even more in this batch, you really can hardly even see the seems on the black ones now they were pretty good before but they're even just a little bit better this round
heat treating oven:
and a few of the woods I've been wanting to start the CA finish on them for a bunch of weeks now but I will def start the CA finish this week they aren't much to look at in this stage but they're really gonna pop once they start to get the CA finish...
I made a lot of little refinements in this batch, I also tweaked the door seems again even more in this batch, you really can hardly even see the seems on the black ones now
they were pretty good before but they're even just a little bit better this round
heat treating oven:
and a few of the woods
I've been wanting to start the CA finish on them for a bunch of weeks now but I will def start the CA finish this week they aren't much to look at in this stage but they're really gonna pop once they start to get the CA finish...
ok the mods are all completely done with all machine work, all shaped and sanded and are in the oven right now for the next 24 hours a final heat treating to anneal them, all that's left after the final heat treat annealing cycle is final finish sanding and polishing, then on to electronics install
I made a lot of little refinements in this batch, I also tweaked the door seems again even more in this batch, you really can hardly even see the seems on the black ones now
heat treating oven:
and a few of the woods
That's mine right in front in the first pic - I can tell from the rakish look in it's eyes.
Batch looks awesome, turbo
Truly
Just so georgous, and functional in ever way possible my freind. I realy cant beleive not enough people want more power so we can get a high watt ultem batch made.
ok the mods are all completely done with all machine work, all shaped and sanded and are in the oven right now for the next 24 hours a final heat treating to anneal them, all that's left after the final heat treat annealing cycle is final finish sanding and polishing, then on to electronics install
I made a lot of little refinements in this batch, I also tweaked the door seems again even more in this batch, you really can hardly even see the seems on the black ones now
heat treating oven:
and a few of the woods
Loving the way those are looking John. I really like the brass trim on the wood. Dying to see how those turn out once you've done the CA finish and get em all polished up.
Thanks again for fitting these woods in alongside the ultems. I know ur ultem batches are much bigger and in higher demand. The selection, options, material, and just craftsmanship you offer here man is just stellar!
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I'm getting that "wiggle in my seat, sweaty palms, cheesy grin" kinda feeling. These are looking so fine! I completely agree with @Adam024 , I appreciate you fitting in the woods in your larger batch of Ultem , though the pics of the Ultem batch has me craving one of those too... good thing work is picking up again soon!ok the mods are all completely done with all machine work, all shaped and sanded and are in the oven right now for the next 24 hours a final heat treating to anneal them, all that's left after the final heat treat annealing cycle is final finish sanding and polishing, then on to electronics install
I made a lot of little refinements in this batch, I also tweaked the door seems again even more in this batch, you really can hardly even see the seems on the black ones now
heat treating oven:
and a few of the woods
Hi from the uk loving the look of your mods how do I go about getting on a future list 
Or ordering one would love a black Ultem body Amber Ultem door face plate and black Ultem buttons DNA 75 We can all dream, or can you make this reality for me
Or ordering one would love a black Ultem body Amber Ultem door face plate and black Ultem buttons DNA 75 We can all dream, or can you make this reality for me
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wanting a wood mod:
1.Kelt
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reminder when the next batch of ultem's are coming up:
1.ghola1was
2.hotsauc333
3.havok333
4.mackman
5.kelt
6.Adam024
7.hashdabbem
8.OldIronCheeks
9.frozenbee
10.mr b
wanting a wood mod:
1.Kelt
2.
3.
4.
5.
reminder when the next batch of ultem's are coming up:
1.ghola1was
2.hotsauc333
3.havok333
4.mackman
5.kelt
6.Adam024
7.hashdabbem
8.OldIronCheeks
9.frozenbee
10.mr b
ok guys an update.... so as I've mentioned before here the ultem is a very hard material and sanding it has always been a problem because it's so hard.
what happens is, naturally you start out with course sandpaper and then work your way up in the grits finer and finer. well by the time you get to ~6-800 or so it starts to look like a really nice satin finish BUT there are always invariably a few deeper scratches still that you can keep sanding and sanding but they're just not going to come out with 800 no matter what, so you wind up having to go back to 400 or 320 or sometimes even 220just to try to get these scratches out, but then wind up creating new ones in the process.... it's a real battle to try to get all of the scratches completely out and sometimes you just can't get them all out, so you do the best you can.
well I started thinking that maybe my biggest problem is that I'm sanding this stuff the same way I would be sanding wood or metal, but this stuff is really more like glass, so maybe if I sanded it like it was glass I might get better results....
so I ordered some silicon carbide and diamond wet sanding belts made for glass and I tried using that and wow, world of difference, but this sanding process is normally done wet, so I did wet the paper a bit and kept dipping the ultem in water and this showed me a few things...
#1 it showed me that ultem sands much more like glass than wood because I can see how much better it is sanding and looking, #2 is this showed me that just getting things a little wet isn't the answer because although it was sanding better it was also kinda clogging up the paper because now instead of sanding dust it kinda makes like a muddy slurry, and without a lot of water flowing to keep the sanding belt clear it just makes a paste that then causes problems in the finish as you go up higher in the grits... and #3 is it showed me that my sander itself is actually adding high and low spots which add to the scratches because the platten, which is the part on the sander that gets sanded against is not really flat, it is worn and has divots and uneven wavy spots... I couldn't even see these spots when sanding it dry, all I could see was scratches but now that it's sanding crystal clear these spots are just right there and easy to see and def a source of some of the problems....
anyway, to make a long story short I started sanding these like this last friday over a week ago and although it was immediately obvious that it was so much better, it was also obvious that it was still just not good enough..... I looked around at lapidary sanders that are used to sand glass and found out 2 things, 1 is they are very expensive and 2 is that it would take weeks to get one, so now what? do I just finish this batch out the old way now that I know there is a way to get so much better results? I really want to make this batch as good as it can be so what did I do? I took my belt sander apart and tried to see what I could do to "fix this"...
I figured I'd be able to do something to get this to work in a few days... well a few days turned into over a week, and just fixing my old sander turned into me building a whole new belt sander specifically designed for this. trust me I have been really hustling here to try to get this new sander built and I have been working really hard night and day this past week to finish this and now it's just about done...
this is why I have not sent out any final billing because I promised that I would send out final billing once the mods were ready for electronics install, but since I was still trying to get this sanding stuff done the mods were still not technically ready for electronics, so I delayed billing till the sanding problem was solved... and now it is...
the new sander is amazing..... variable speed with a really nice amount of constant flowing water to keep the diamond belt and the ultem cool and lubricated and a new ultra flat precision silicon carbide platten to sand against for truly flat as glass results, it's actually a night and day difference, I feel like the old way I was sanding these was like a cave man in comparison... I will get you some pictures of the new sander later, I'll be buttoning it all up tonight and I'll also be finally sending out billing later tonight too... I'm sorry for this little delay here but this new wet diamond sanding process is just going to make these a so much better finish now, trust me it will be worth the extra 9 day delay. again they were very nice before but they will be even better now... wet diamond sanding, who woulda thunk it?
sorry I don't have pictures yet just been trying so hard to finish this but figured I should at least take a little time out to update you guys, I will have pics soon, this new sander is an absolute beast
what happens is, naturally you start out with course sandpaper and then work your way up in the grits finer and finer. well by the time you get to ~6-800 or so it starts to look like a really nice satin finish BUT there are always invariably a few deeper scratches still that you can keep sanding and sanding but they're just not going to come out with 800 no matter what, so you wind up having to go back to 400 or 320 or sometimes even 220just to try to get these scratches out, but then wind up creating new ones in the process.... it's a real battle to try to get all of the scratches completely out and sometimes you just can't get them all out, so you do the best you can.
well I started thinking that maybe my biggest problem is that I'm sanding this stuff the same way I would be sanding wood or metal, but this stuff is really more like glass, so maybe if I sanded it like it was glass I might get better results....
so I ordered some silicon carbide and diamond wet sanding belts made for glass and I tried using that and wow, world of difference, but this sanding process is normally done wet, so I did wet the paper a bit and kept dipping the ultem in water and this showed me a few things...
#1 it showed me that ultem sands much more like glass than wood because I can see how much better it is sanding and looking, #2 is this showed me that just getting things a little wet isn't the answer because although it was sanding better it was also kinda clogging up the paper because now instead of sanding dust it kinda makes like a muddy slurry, and without a lot of water flowing to keep the sanding belt clear it just makes a paste that then causes problems in the finish as you go up higher in the grits... and #3 is it showed me that my sander itself is actually adding high and low spots which add to the scratches because the platten, which is the part on the sander that gets sanded against is not really flat, it is worn and has divots and uneven wavy spots... I couldn't even see these spots when sanding it dry, all I could see was scratches but now that it's sanding crystal clear these spots are just right there and easy to see and def a source of some of the problems....
anyway, to make a long story short I started sanding these like this last friday over a week ago and although it was immediately obvious that it was so much better, it was also obvious that it was still just not good enough..... I looked around at lapidary sanders that are used to sand glass and found out 2 things, 1 is they are very expensive and 2 is that it would take weeks to get one, so now what? do I just finish this batch out the old way now that I know there is a way to get so much better results? I really want to make this batch as good as it can be so what did I do? I took my belt sander apart and tried to see what I could do to "fix this"...
I figured I'd be able to do something to get this to work in a few days... well a few days turned into over a week, and just fixing my old sander turned into me building a whole new belt sander specifically designed for this. trust me I have been really hustling here to try to get this new sander built and I have been working really hard night and day this past week to finish this and now it's just about done...
this is why I have not sent out any final billing because I promised that I would send out final billing once the mods were ready for electronics install, but since I was still trying to get this sanding stuff done the mods were still not technically ready for electronics, so I delayed billing till the sanding problem was solved... and now it is...
the new sander is amazing..... variable speed with a really nice amount of constant flowing water to keep the diamond belt and the ultem cool and lubricated and a new ultra flat precision silicon carbide platten to sand against for truly flat as glass results, it's actually a night and day difference, I feel like the old way I was sanding these was like a cave man in comparison... I will get you some pictures of the new sander later, I'll be buttoning it all up tonight and I'll also be finally sending out billing later tonight too... I'm sorry for this little delay here but this new wet diamond sanding process is just going to make these a so much better finish now, trust me it will be worth the extra 9 day delay. again they were very nice before but they will be even better now... wet diamond sanding, who woulda thunk it?
sorry I don't have pictures yet just been trying so hard to finish this but figured I should at least take a little time out to update you guys, I will have pics soon, this new sander is an absolute beast
Hey folks, is there anyone here who can add me to the FB BAM group? If so, would you message me off-thread and we can sort out the "friending" and such.
Thanks!
Kelt.
Thanks!
Kelt.
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