My "Out of Africa" theater is "FINISHED" - Page 10

I put up the brackets for the center speaker shelve as well.







Another thing done - Since the screen wall frame is now finished I could put in the four LED downlights above the screen in the proscenium. This is how I first measured and used spray can lids on the stage to get the spacing and look right.



And here's how they look installed







The media rack is up next - BIG JOB

Thanks for the big compliment RT - I'll sure try not to disappoint you.

Will

I started with the media rack. It's made out of, yep, MDF!! Just to show that I did use a plan at least SOMEWHERE during my build, here's the plan for the rack - not to scale of course, but more of a cutlist and assembly plan



Here's a shot of the wood for the rack, everything except the one big piece that'll go on the back of the rack that is 1,8 X 2,1 meters.



The whole rack is built in separate sections and will then be fixed together to form one solid piece. The foot piece and the rest of the rack will be joined together only when the rack is in place in the little hallway next to the equipment rack, because it won't be able to leave the HT through the door 'cause the door is only 2.1m high and the whole rack will be a bit higher.

Here's the beginning - the footpiece is being put together with wood glue and the nailgun.





Here the base is finished and two racks put upside down ontop of it:



And finally, after very sore back and arms, all the pieces are finished and just stacked up before everything is stuck and nailed together - this thing is HUGE!



Next I put the big back-piece on the riser and assembled the rack ontop of it and glued and clamped the side pieces to the sides of the rack and nailed it as well.



and the other side:



This is how far I am now. Just as I thought, I've overdone it a bit - this thing is bloody heavy, so heavy in fact, that I'll have to ask my brother to help me get it out of the HT and ontop of the base. The trimmings and finishing must still be done, but you get the general idea of how it will look. It can hold about 996 standard DVD/blu-ray's.

I'll post some more as I progress.

Till later

Will

Thank you calimark, one of the main reasons for such a big rack is to cover the block windows in the hallway because they are ugly and to prevent any sound leaking from the HT to enter the rest of the house through the windows. The cavities will be stuffed with pinks stuf or the yellow fibre glass batts. Here's a previous pic to show what I'm talking about.

Thanks BIG, I love to hold the physical disk, case with artwork ect. in my hand as well as standing in front of a shelf and decide what movie to watch - must be a childhood fantasy of owning my own video shop and that I can pick any movie to watch The same goes for books, I love the feel and smell of books. I've read a few e-books on my tablet, but it's not the same as holding the book in my hands - maybe I'm just an OLD SCHOOL guy

Bryceo, thank you for the compliment and reading the thread.

Hey Benji, who's it going? Your HT is also comming along very nicely.

calimark, I had to put the rack somewhere anyway, so I decided to just put it in front of the windows - two flies with one hit kinda thing!

Hello everyone, between the studying for the exam I managed to do some work. I've finished the media rack, put on the trim and put it in place were it'll stand. Boy is this thing HEAVY. Me and my gardener moved (slided) it from ther HT into the garage where I sanded the edges and put up the top part as well as the halfroud trim and scotia pine. With all this extra added weight, we moved it back into the HT corridor and lifted it onto its base. We first had to lift the one side onto the tempopary riser piece (I built in the beginning of the build) because we could'nt pick up the whole rack at once, and then the other side and slid it onto the base but its up there now I'll paint it in place after I anchored it to the wall.

Here's some before pics:







And here's the after pics - that's after like in "after the huffing and puffing"







Another part of the build that I didn't looked forward to, was the covering of the screen wall and building the corner traps with the fibreglass batts. Luckily it's done now!

It started with a pile of yellow boards, my trusty electric carving knife (btw. it's giving off a slightly burnt electronics smell, so it might be on it's way out - I hope it'll hold till everything is done) and some adhesive. Here is the first panel ready to go up:



And here it is - ta-daa!!



And four down



Here's how I did the cutout for the centre speaker's shelf bracket:



And finally the whole wall was covered:



Next up was the corner traps:

The first panel divided into eight triangles



And the first panel cut up - that is the first of 13 and a half panels = 108 triangles - itchy, itchy ....



Here's some of the triangles,enough about for one trap, in the HT



And late eyesterday afternoon - both traps are finished and the days work is done!!





Till later

Will

Thanx Spaceman and RT. I'm still itching a little between the fingers but luckily it's done. I must now cover the fibreglass with black fabric to prevent any light reflection. (as you already know )

Will

Just something I was wondering about...

I just spoke to the guy at the place I buy my MDF from. He said that one sheet of 16mm Supawood weighs 75kg's. I've used 3,5 sheets in the rack so that adds up to 262,5kg (578,7 lbs ) It's no wonder me and the gardener couldn't carry it

blipszyc, the shelves are 154mm deep, that is 20mm (2cm) deeper than the DVD/Blu-ray cases.

Ha ha. RT, I really did not think about the weight before I built the thing, but one thing I wanted to make sure is that the shelves don't sag over time, cause that always look so bad when shelves sag. Luckily they are VERY sturdy and because they are not very broad they shouldn't sag (holding thumbs )

PS. I think I actually did some damage in my left knee but it's better now.

PPS. And about building another one ......... NEVER AGAIN!

Thanx RT, cool pic - looks like it's smiling - exactly what I don't want

Dankie Dirkie, ek waardeer! You'll have to come over once I'm finished - whenever that may be

Hi guys, not much to report. I've managed to put up the black fabric over the fibreglass panels behind the screen.
I think I'll be able do do more work now that my exam is over. The next thing wil probably be the STAR CEILING!!
Hope to start with it soon.

Here's some pics of the screenwall.





Till later
Will

Dankie vir die kompliment Bushie!!

Anyone know where I can find some nice skymaps or star maps that I can download for a template for the star ceiling? The star ceiling will consist of 4 panels joint together and covered with velvet as well. The whole plan is currently on a spin-cycle in my mind, busy getting it all worked out before I start the construction.

Thanx RT, it looks like could work. I've just have to figure out how to put the panels together, "wire" the optic fibres and get the whole thing to the ceiling and fixing it so that it don't drop on our heads midway through a movie