get over there and fabricate

The mounting tray for the Xbox didn’t come out so good.

It turns out that metalworking requires “skills” and “talent” and “appropriate tools”. Specifically, sheet metal is supposed to be bent with something like a 24″ Bench Pan And Box Brake, not by “whaling on it with a hammer and a piece of wood until it sort of bends, kinda”.

Feh. I might still use it, or I might plant flowers in it. I feel like a kid who just brought home the pathetic, screwed-up little birdhouse home from a crafts activity in third grade.

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