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Burning a NeXT Magnesium Cube
- morganw 15y agoAnd sanding & polishing one: pheatonforums.com is gone, but the 1st page of the project journal is on archive.org: http://web.archive.org/web/20031011104839/http://www.pheatonforums.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=137 http://web.archive.org/web/20031011104839/http://www.pheaton... The directory of photos is still available: http://planetcasemod.com/NeXT/ http://planetcasemod.com/NeXT/ http://planetcasemod.com/NeXT/Polish/bathroom.JPG http://planetcasemod.com/NeXT/Polish/bathroom.JPG http://planetcasemod.com/NeXT/Polish/done1.JPG http://planetcasemod.com/NeXT/Polish/done1.JPG And the UBB-code version of some of the posts to the board: http://www.planetcasemod.com/NeXT/Back/back.txt http://www.planetcasemod.com/NeXT/Back/back.txt http://planetcasemod.com/Phones/buffinghowto.txt http://planetcasemod.com/Phones/buffinghowto.txt http://www.planetcasemod.com/NeXT/Front/Finished.txt http://www.planetcasemod.com/NeXT/Front/Finished.txt The magnesium "tarnishes" and requires monthly polishing. Sealing is "not the same as raw metal" http://hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1028300977&postcount=31 http://hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1028300977&postcount...
- sgt 15y agoI have mixed feelings about this. However, the work itself is great. Well done!
- biot 15y agoToo bad they didn't take video. For more images, be sure not to miss the link at the top of the page to the album: http://picasaweb.google.com/nitrobaphotos/NeXTCubeFireAtLLL http://picasaweb.google.com/nitrobaphotos/NeXTCubeFireAtLLL
- tawman 15y agoI missed that link, but thanks for re-posting it here. The real life photos filled in the gaps of the pictures I visualized in my head while reading the story. Very cool and I can relate as we all have an old computer case in closet somewhere.
- joezydeco 15y agoThe case in your closet probably is not made of pure magnesium. That was the point of the burn.
- inportb 15y agothe NeXT case was also not made of pure magnesium
- joezydeco 15y agoOkay, what else was in it? And let's leave things like decals and paint off the list.
- inportb 15y ago> magnesium alloy which is specially designed to be difficult to ignite The story doesn't say what else was in it, but feel free to support the claim that the box was made of pure Mg and not an alloy, modulo things such as decals and paint.
- ryanwatkins 15y agoVideo captured on a second cube with a NeXTdimension board would have been fitting.
- kljuhyfg 15y agoutterly clueless; the NeXTdimension didn't do video.
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- ryanwatkins 15y agoThe compression daughterboard didnt get finished, but that was the point of the device. I know, I own one.
- atomicdog 15y agohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkvQ-BJD2rU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkvQ-BJD2rU
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- rbanffy 15y agoWhy do this?
- burgerbrain 15y agoFun? Curiosity?
- rbanffy 15y agoI don't think it would be fun to burn down a Frank Lloyd Wright house or a 1963 Sting Ray coupé or smashing a Braun SK-4 turntable or a Beolit 39 radio. There are objects that embody more than their function and the NeXT cube is one of them. It's sad that someone derives pleasure from the destruction of such beautiful objects. I am glad there are people who preserve them for future generations, but only so many of them were ever built. When the last one is destroyed, what will we have? A small, but beautiful, part of our past will be gone forever.
- burgerbrain 15y agoFor each their own man, don't expect other people to adhere to your idea of fun. But lets put this into some perspective. He's not burning down a one off Frank Lloyd Wright, he light two mass produced computer cases on fire. There are plenty more people out there who cherish the things. It's not like lighting these things on fire is some sort of genocidal fad. Fuck, I know a guy with a pallet of the things.
- SeanLuke 15y agoThis was not done when the Cube had established itself in design history. I believe Simson Garfunkel was doing this as part of an article for NeXTWorld Magazine or some such. It is a very old picture.
- rbanffy 15y agoI think I owe him an apology. It's much easier to do something like it when the machines are still being built.