I wanna be a fraim !

Posted by: Mario on 30 October 2004

Here are some pics of my D.I.Y fraim project. I use a cnc router at work so cutting them out was easy. I've tried a couple in alloy, but the final stand would be too heavy. The uprights are extruded tubes that were powdercoated black. The only real drama is painting the mdf cutouts. Various kitchen places were not interested in doing gloss black for me so I'll just have to spray them myself. More pics as I progress.

Mario.
Posted on: 12 November 2004 by Mario
The whole thing assembled.
Posted on: 12 November 2004 by nor
absolutely bloody fabulous!!!!!!!!


'nuff said really Eek Big Grin
Posted on: 12 November 2004 by Mario
Thanks Nor, I sort of exceeded my expectations because the system sounds marvelous!!! I don't want to do anything other than listen to music, and I've got heaps to do!

Here's another to show how it all comes together.

Mario.
Posted on: 13 November 2004 by Deane F
Mario

That looks very handsome indeed! Is the finish of the shelves tough?

Have you done a costing for the whole enterprise?

Deane
Posted on: 14 November 2004 by nor
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Originally posted by Deane F:
Mario

That looks very handsome indeed! Is the finish of the shelves tough?

Have you done a costing for the whole enterprise?

Deane



thats the question i was going to ask.

next to the fraim itself, i think that is the most handsome piece of hifi shelving i've seen. more furniture than anything.

must try and put my metal and woodworking skills to the test after i've seen this.then again, making a garden trowel and a matchstick box is my limit! lol.
Posted on: 21 November 2004 by Stevea
Having suggested those triangle socket security screws as a means to support/locate metal balls under a glass shelf, I thought I should put my money where my mouth is. I took a shelf, some screws and 2 different sized balls, up to James' where he had one of these useful little drills to make nice neat holes.

I had planned to only go as deep as required to just get the screw head below the top surface but was persuaded to also try a deeper hole. We tested out a minimum depth hole and a 5mm deep one. The deeper one proved to be best as it thoroughly prevented ball escape and made it so you only had to roll the ball at the hole for it to drop in and seat perfectly on the triangle recess – it was like playing golf.

And the end product looks like this:



The two different ball sizes are 11/32 and 3/8. I have ended up using the 3/8.

Hope this proves useful out there in ‘DIY Rack World’.

Steve

[This message was edited by Stevea on Sun 21 November 2004 at 20:55.]