A few months ago I picked up an old transit case from the reuse store that suffered some water damage. I took it home and found out that the damage was pretty bad. I worked on chiseling out as much damaged wood as I could and ended filling it with bondo. Never again. Even with PPE and crazy ventilation that stuff is not worth it. If I was to do this again I would just use an epoxy with some flexibility.

The right photo is the inside after a single coat of super matte black. If you look hard enough you can see some of the severity of the damage. But I think this is going to work out well for my diorama/display case.

The cloth is from reuse, I used a matching pair of upholstery sample books to cover the long outsides of the case.

I will share more as the work continues.

Please take care of each other.

We recently did some PC necromancy and brought back a vintage computer system. This beast is a first generation Pentium 4, socket 423, TH7A-RAID, running @ 1.8Ghz, with 2GB RamBus memory, and a 230GB SSD. It takes forever to boot but when it does it is still pretty decent.

I am really surprised that this is a great system to capture DV video via firewire. I also found a surplus parallel port based DSO (Link Instruments 2102M) that runs perfectly in XP.

I really love keeping this system and the Link hardware alive.

Thanks for looking.

Please take care of each other.