Busbar Box
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Me too, the way I treat mods, an exposed tank is a smashed drippy disaster waiting to happen 
"Tank shields on maximum, sir."
-"Good. We can now leave the house."
Looks great, and a fine mod. The master switch between the plates I really liked, is it still doing that?
-"Good. We can now leave the house."
Looks great, and a fine mod. The master switch between the plates I really liked, is it still doing that?
Yup, I've got a buddy that wants one of these, so to make it easier (and quicker) to build I'm going to remove the two bottom magnets as well and line the bottom and left side with an "L" of copper (leave a master switch gap) and epoxy just one magnet back in the middle right so I can sit the bottom feed bottle right in the bottom of the box... recess my carto/atty even more...Also going to polish the copper up and use the transparent red version of this box...depending on how it turns out my buddy may get my old one, lol
Why thanks buddy...I'll be waiting!!
Forgot to ask...is that .025" copper your using?
A plumber friend of mine saves me all his copper pipe shorts...I slit them with a hacksaw then pry them open and beat them flat with an auto body hammer...I've got so much copper I thought about making the whole box out it
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A plumber friend of mine saves me all his copper pipe shorts...I slit them with a hacksaw then pry them open and beat them flat with an auto body hammer...I've got so much copper I thought about making the whole box out it
Oh I see..good idea....made me think of the copper traces in my junk ice maker I have been saving to scavenge for parts.
Oh ya! you gotta keep stuff like that, all kinds of cool stuff there...I love the little worm-drive switch on the bottom by the dial...hard to tell without something to scale it against but those traces look more than beefy enough to carry the current we use...I just like the cleanliness and order of buses (or traces like these), the chaos of wires going everywhere bugs me, and I'm an electrician...it's sort of a "man" sized pcb...Tim the Toolman "OH, OH, OH!"
hey quigsworth that is a really cool mod !
i had to think for a minute to grasp what was going on, lol
now, is your actuator button on the other side ?
was trying to figure out how you fired it
i guess without seeing something, my mind runs rampant
sorry, lol
i am glad i checked out your posts
i am really enjoying them
gervis
i had to think for a minute to grasp what was going on, lol
now, is your actuator button on the other side ?
was trying to figure out how you fired it
i guess without seeing something, my mind runs rampant
sorry, loli am glad i checked out your posts
i am really enjoying them
gervis
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Yup, switch its inside the top batt terminal, one leg is soldered to the terminal, the other to the tab of the pos bus...
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Wow, I thought you had some copper strip, not that you made your own, nice job.
Oh ya, you'd be surprised how much copper sheet you can get out of a couple feet of 3/4" copper pipe...I know I was...it's super easy to do, if I'm stuck or thinking about how to do something I'll grab a short of pipe and make it flat, I've got stacks of it...hell, one of the reasons I made the busbar mod was to find a way to use some of it up
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