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- Jan 9, 2013
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Here is the enclosure i built. It is still curing (not sure how long to let it so i was figuring monday which would be 6 days for the polycrylic and 5 days for the silicone to set)
It is going into my bonus room on an older dining table which it will almost cover at 36" x 30" not huge but it is for winter and bad weather days.and we made it 21" tall to accommodate the piece of tempered glass i got to fit also figured after 4" of substrate the mwb bulb and night heat would still be over a foot upwhen it sits on the screen.
I used 1x2 for sides, back and front and and 1x12 and 1x3 for bottom using a pocket jig to make each panel (wood is pine)and countersunk the glass into the front panel and then made the box then took 1/4" birch ply to line the inside with brad nails made a split opening top one side solid the other lined with aluminum screening. I didnt want to color stain or paint it so my wife torched the outside and then i covered the inside with 3 coats of minwax polycrylic and 2 coats on the outside and a day later sealed all corners with ge silicone II and then siliconed a plastic liner to the bottom.
Cant wait to see them in it
It is going into my bonus room on an older dining table which it will almost cover at 36" x 30" not huge but it is for winter and bad weather days.and we made it 21" tall to accommodate the piece of tempered glass i got to fit also figured after 4" of substrate the mwb bulb and night heat would still be over a foot upwhen it sits on the screen.
I used 1x2 for sides, back and front and and 1x12 and 1x3 for bottom using a pocket jig to make each panel (wood is pine)and countersunk the glass into the front panel and then made the box then took 1/4" birch ply to line the inside with brad nails made a split opening top one side solid the other lined with aluminum screening. I didnt want to color stain or paint it so my wife torched the outside and then i covered the inside with 3 coats of minwax polycrylic and 2 coats on the outside and a day later sealed all corners with ge silicone II and then siliconed a plastic liner to the bottom.
Cant wait to see them in it
