Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Spaced Out

*EDIT: Just ordered a new part that will replace these, are BC approved and should be the accurate dimensions. A cool new total PSI Housing system will hold the lenses a diffuser and the PCB boards in an aluminum and rubber gasket shell. I doubt I'll be able to unload these, luckily they weren't too expensive. But still, any waste of money is a little irritating.*


PSI Spacers arrived from Taiwan. These are a new part that haven't been run before and are still prototypes. I went ahead and got some because I thought, "how much better can an aluminum ring get?" The sizes are off a little on 300mm Domes, so I guess they can get better. The front (smaller) PSI spacer is just slightly too small, but a little elbow grease and sand paper will correct this. The back (larger) PSI spacer is too small by quite a bit, at least 1/8th an inch. Fortunately though, if you don't use the Outer Dome piece for this PSI panel, and paint the Inner Dome blue here like the real droids, then it really doesn't matter. I have yet to make any additional cuts to my Inner Dome other than the 3 Holoprojector cuts that were already there when I purchased it. So all I have to do is use the spacer for measuring the back PSI hole instead of the Outer Dome panel that already had it cut out. Problem solved.



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