housing base

Picked up the base for the housing through the week. Found one of those oldskool metal yards near where I get my perspex from - the guy running the show was awesome - gave me a discount and when I asked he said he can offer his workshop facilities up for a small cost - has all the tools you need and a lot of heavy machinery there too - good to know.

Anyways so he got one of his lackies to cut my panel. With complete disregard to this lackie having at his disposal every tool and state of the art machine with electronic vice guides etc, he was completly inept at cutting a piece of aluminium that was square and matched the given dimentions. In fact - he impressively managed to cut the sheet so that every single corner was out of square and no 2 sides were actually parallel. He invented a new shape. I'm not sure but perhaps there's an intensive add-on course you can do at TAFE which covers how to do this. Anyways...I spent about 2 hours filing, linishing and sanding the shit out of the sheet until it was close to square and would finally fit.

As the old saying goes -

if you want something done right - just don't give it to the retard at the metal
yard in Arncliff.