Cygnus X1 by Attila Lukacs

And after the first coat of polyurethane. They look great!


The hinges were cut from solid aluminium bar because together with the mounting blocks, they needed to carry quite a load.





The hinges are fitted with 4mm machined stainless pins and sit on, and in, plastic bushes.


The sheer weight of the side panels at 4.6KG's each, necessitated making a support structure on the front panel to take the load when the case was closed up. Luckily there are plenty of fixing points here, so no new holes had to be drilled.