Quote Originally Posted by Circuits View Post
Finish is up to you. Some of the bake on resins are easiest to do at home with no equipment. Anodizing's not hard, but you need a current source and solutions and buckets, etc - so more hassle and time and stuff.

If you have a jig, it's quite easily doable with just a hand drill or drill press.

The tool you have is less expensive than anything you go buy. If not, and it's just for this project, get a harbor freight drill press on sale.

Jig depends on who made the 80% and what's been done to it - they're not all the same.

Thank you very much. As for powersources for anodizing what ive used in the past for experiments where I needed DC is take a PC power supply and find the load wire, put a beefy ceramic resistor across it and the power supply will toggle on and give you 12v at a couple amperages and and and 5v at a couple amperages.

So all I basically need is a drill press, lower and a jig? Would you suggest one of those drill press mill vises ?

So far im looking at:
http://www.harborfreight.com/8-in-be...eed-60238.html
And
http://www.harborfreight.com/5-rugge...ise-69159.html
And
Lower with Jig

Any special bits required? would you suggest something better than the generic old harbor freight ones?


Ive worked with wood before but never really any metal so excuse my stupid questions.