OnlineMetals.com - DIY | Make Your Own Clock Part 1

Hi welcome to online metals we're here in Seattle Washington with a DIY project for you today to learn how to make your own metal clock there's really no limit to the kinds of designs you could choose to put together for a metal clock depending on the different base materials that you pick but today we're going to go over two designs the first design is making a clock with a GPO 3 red laminate background and a perforated sheet to go over the top of the red laminate our second project is going to be a mirrored stainless steel sheet the great thing about these projects is that it requires very little tools and you can get it started and completed very quickly this design calls for a aluminum perforated sheet for the top and the bottom will be made out of GPO three red laminate when we put the two of them together we come up with a really nice design effect of having the background color show through the perforated sheet something you can consider when deciding what size a perforated sheet to get is that you can get the material with varied hole sizes and staggers so you can actually change the look of your design based on how big the holes are and how far apart they are so if you wanted larger holes more metal more red then you can just make that decision another thing to keep in mind when working with both the perforated sheet and with the GPO three is that the perforated sheet has sharp edges so you should wear gloves and the GPO three is actually a fiberglass material and so the materials could come out and give you splinters so it's also a good idea to wear gloves when using this material the first thing we need to do to get started is to find out where the center of our material is so we can start the hole for our clock face to find the center of our material we just need to get a straight edge and go from corner to corner and I'm going to use an erasable marker I do the same thing from the other corner the next step is to make a dent into the metal so that when we put our metal drill bit in there it'll have a indention to follow now that we have the hole drilled in the top surface we can just go ahead and use that as a guide for marking the hole to go in the bottom surface since the clock face doesn't really hold very tightly it won't be enough tension to hold these two pieces of material together so we've decided to attach the two of them with just some Loctite so we'll put a little layer between the perforated sheet and the plastic to get the two pieces to stick together another choice you could do would be to attach screws through the front and just make it part of your decoration it would be ideal to be able to clamp these two pieces together for the glue to dry otherwise you could just find something heavy to lay on top of them until the glue dries and it touches the two pieces together now that our two sheets have bonded together with the Loctite we can go ahead and assemble the clock car clock is fully as simple no what we have to do is put in the battery you