"Movement!"
Yeah, like in the alien movies... just when you think there's nothing around, there looks like there's nothing around, and all is calm, a blip on the tactical scanner appears. In this case, the blip is this meager update.
Front Panel Glue-Up
After thinking about it for a good long while, I decided that using goop to glue the bottom outer plate to the base frame (to augment the set screw fasteners) wasn't such a bad idea. Off I went...
Off the front of the box, set screws removed.
Wiping down the surface with a tack-cloth
Goop! (Plumbers and all the other varieties, it's basically all the same.) This stuff is nice and sticky and should bond the front together no-problem.
Goop Applied
Parts mated together... at which point I put the set screws back in so that everything lines up A-OK.
Cover in a rag, wood blocks to distrubte the weight, and weights plus some extra 'liquid' weight.
The whole thing stuck together just fine, but you'll have to wait till I get the set screw holes bondo'd shut and the whole thing shot with automotive (lacquer) primer before I show it again.
Front Ports
Before when I sleeved and extended the front panel firewire and USB I never dyed the parts. Zittware's "Dye Everything" attitudte motivated me to go back and dye it black.
Taped up and ready for dye
All dyed up
Edit: Fixed Image tag locations... doah!