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Step 10Making The Doorway & Door
You will now need to make a Doorway and Door to enclose your Media-Pod, it is not 100% required to have a Door, but it helps with the sound quality as the sound will bounce off the inner door and make for a better music experience.
The Doorway is Required for strength, and helps to make the shape more solid. Start with a large 4' X 4' Sheet of Door Luan skin, 13/64" thick, this is standard and is available as "Door Skin" at Home Improvement centers.
Place one of the Hexagons onto the door skin and trace around the hexagon to get a template shape onto the door skin. Then mark lines from all 6 points to find the center.
Use a Large Compass to make a 22 3/4" circle in the center, then use a Jig Saw to cut out the shape you have just made. Sand the edges smooth, and paint the door frame whatever color your whole dome is going to be.
Now a door is in order, make two circles on some scrap plywood, 1/2" to 3/4" thick, one circle will be 22 5/8", and the other will be 23 3/4" in diameter, Cut a radius on the outer edges of each to smooth out the look a bit. Face these circles against one another in the exact centers (Use the compass center holes to locate the exact center) Radius edges facing outward, screw the discs together and use liberal glue. Place a handle on the inside center of the door (The Inside center will be the small disk) screw into place from the outside (Large Disk).
The Doorway is Required for strength, and helps to make the shape more solid. Start with a large 4' X 4' Sheet of Door Luan skin, 13/64" thick, this is standard and is available as "Door Skin" at Home Improvement centers.
Place one of the Hexagons onto the door skin and trace around the hexagon to get a template shape onto the door skin. Then mark lines from all 6 points to find the center.
Use a Large Compass to make a 22 3/4" circle in the center, then use a Jig Saw to cut out the shape you have just made. Sand the edges smooth, and paint the door frame whatever color your whole dome is going to be.
Now a door is in order, make two circles on some scrap plywood, 1/2" to 3/4" thick, one circle will be 22 5/8", and the other will be 23 3/4" in diameter, Cut a radius on the outer edges of each to smooth out the look a bit. Face these circles against one another in the exact centers (Use the compass center holes to locate the exact center) Radius edges facing outward, screw the discs together and use liberal glue. Place a handle on the inside center of the door (The Inside center will be the small disk) screw into place from the outside (Large Disk).
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Apr 17, 2009. 6:12 PMLunera
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Just thinking about this, If I were to make an additional Hexagon piece, I could hinge it at the top, using one or several magnets to hold the door in place (otherwise the door might get held open by the airflow from the ventilation system.) I'm thinking this might be somewhat more portable by having the door be able to stack with the rest of the hexagons.
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Apr 17, 2009. 11:03 PM
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greg0594 (author)
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That would also work, as I already made an extra hexagon, but not hinged at the top, it just sits over the door frame hole. The ventilation fans are very quiet, and don't cause any noticeable preasure that would be enough to lift anything. Greg - Media Pod Designer
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