Fallout 4 ULTIMATE "Bomb Case" Build Log - Part 1 of 2
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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2,480 words · ~12 min read
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welcome to the Fallout build log it was
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said to not be possible to fit a computer into the bomb that comes with
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the Fallout Anthology but with determination and a really good 3D
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printer we're going to make it
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midtower PC case your own with a variety of modular parts and accessories check
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this isn't a normal build log as you can probably tell this isn't a normal case
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uh with a normal case you can check what it's compatible with and just order
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things that it's compatible with and put them in and everything's fine this is
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obviously not naturally compatible with anything so there had to be some
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feasibility testing I've already kind of planned out the parts I've got a Maximus
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impact 8 I've got a tiny little sfx power supply from Silverstone this is a
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300 WT trying to get a 450 more about that later I've got an R9 Fury Nano I
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have some lowprofile Vengeance lpx I've
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got an SSD uh Riser cable we'll talk
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about that stuff later I've done some planning but one problem is part of that
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planning involved being like well damn this thing is definitely too small if
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you look at it the usable space is Tiny
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it's not that big and a lot of its curves which are not that usable for
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computer parts which are very much boxy so it needed to be extended I worked
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with Taran and we 3D modeled some stuff so we did some test things first
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surprisingly and awesomely Tan's first one actually fit quite well we did some
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minor changes to the fit and added some fitting tabs for These Foo screws that
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are on the side also worked quite well so we moved on to the jumbo the big guy
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this one actually makes it tall enough that I can fit all of my stuff
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now when looking at this it maybe doesn't look the greatest you might be
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like but Luke it's lime green the rest
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of it's not it's okay we'll get more to that
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later I'm going to try to get some colorcoded spray bombs which actually
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like match the green and the brown speckle that's already on here so we'll
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we'll touch up the aesthetic there but for the rest of the build there's some
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plans but not all of them is planned and you guys are going to have to come along
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with me for that so with this build there has to be a
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balance between badassery and functionality and one of the most
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important things in my opinion with this build to do with badassery is this
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button when you press this button right
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now awesome super FY that's great but I
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want this button to also turn on the computer I could have hooked it in and
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parallel onto the power switchy thing using this and stuff but there's some
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voltage problems or something I'm not super great with electronics so I'm
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going to solder in another switch how this thing works is it's a big plate
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that presses down onto another plate which has a button mounted in it so what
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I'm going to try to do is add another button so that this plate press down
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actually presses two buttons now I don't actually have another one of these spare
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switches that's where
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this hunk of junk comes in so this guy
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up at the top I found has
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very usable little tiny switch so I'm
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going to drill the rivets out rip this
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thing out separate it from these wires cut that
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off tear it out mount it into that plate
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solder it into the thing and then hopefully it
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works I might just break it oh yes I
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will just break it so it's actually just this module right here that I need
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it's okay you're probably editing
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this okay I think that opened it up for
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me there we
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go well I'm salvaging this computer case
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I'm ripping out its switch and I'm using it for something else so if that's not
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Fallout I don't know what it is I just need two of the wires and I only need
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the ones that go to the actual switch itself one thing that's really cool that
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I got for this build is this tiny little lowprofile SATA cable although the SATA
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connections on this board are right next to the RAM so it's kind of a problem but
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if I put it in the bottom slot down here
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and just kind of work the cable around the bottom of the RAM but above the PCI
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Express slot I can kind of make it come out just fine so this will work for my
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SSD okay so I'm just testing to make sure that the system actually works so
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this is the mess of components that I have to get inside of the
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bomb we got post code nope there we go okay so I don't have a keyboard or
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anything installed but as you guys can see on the monitor honestly that's good
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enough the system works so moving on I need to turn this off then I need to
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wrap um my switches things around these
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poles maybe I can't wrap it around can I
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get a Helper go hey
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hey okay so now I need to solder this in
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place so it's not just held by me thank you helper Colton you can go back to
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doing whatever you're doing and we're good to go theoretically it works so now
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as long as I don't massively screw up everything by my terrible soldering job
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we're
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good okay so my horrible horrible horrible horrible horrible soldering job
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is done going to turn the power supply on doesn't automatically turn on that's
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a good thing press the button yes okay the button works I need
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to find a way to mount this little box on the plastic plate that is already in
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there and already has one switch need to add another one God I'm happy that
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worked this one has a lot more travel time than this one does this one's a
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very shallow press also the button
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swivels on a fix point on the bottom I would like to mount this as high as
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possible but there's stuff blocking a
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tall mount in here the ideal location is where this random kind of plus symbol
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post is so I'm going to have to try to remove that and then drill through it
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and see if I can mount something right
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there might not want to show that it's
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like not a proper way to use a drill just so Taran knows I'm just going to
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hold my switch in the hole that I cut
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for it this represents if I like hot glued it
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in or something
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okay that did not
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work so it it works if you press like super deep I need to make the hole
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bigger there is not that much time between now and when Fallout 4 comes out
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if anything goes wrong I'm screwed and I'm doing a lot of things in this Build
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That Could completely screw the entire build
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over I hope this switch
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works all right guys we're back in the office now one of the problems with
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painting this is that the surface is very different than the surface of the
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bomb the surface of the bomb is super smooth this guy has flat walls because
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it's a 3D printer and it was printing kind of with some flat walls so I need
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to sand that down so it's a little bit more smooth this is going to take a little while so super speed time lapse
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engage I'm just going to tie a shirt on my
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face okay so it's largely sanded down
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this is filler primer so hopefully that will help kind of fill in some of the
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grooves that are still existing and we can get going one of the problems is is
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that the clearances on these things
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are actually pretty tight so I'm going to try to tape them off and then we'll
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be good to start spraying I've never
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spray primered anything
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before let's hope I don't super suck that would be a huge waste of
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time wa what do you think any
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problems that's a lot smoother I can already tell so we're going to bring
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this into dry again then we might do it one more time so through the combined efforts of
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my triangle file and my large flat file
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I was able to open up that circular hole that I had drilled and make a square
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hole and the switch fit through I need to secure it got some hot glue that
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should be fine but there's one problem that remains it has to be so far out
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that I can't actually slide it in because it will interfere with the rim
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of the bomb so I have to actually take it
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out and then put the switch plate back
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in all the way and then fit it in why
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this is a problem is I have to hot glue it in a
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position that I can't can't take it out
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and that sucks that's super sketchy but anyways let's give it a
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shot don't touch it oh yeah that's
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drives pretty fast though thankfully okay so everything's put
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together if it doesn't work I'm going to pull my freaking hair out let's try
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it it made the noise the computer turned on we're good to go moving on to other
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things
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all right guys this is primer coat number three it's starting to come along
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um we might do one or two
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more another problem to be solved the
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power supply of this rig will be going into the top of the bomb up here I need
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you to be able to plug into it into the bottom of the bomb so I need to create
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an extension so I needed a right angle connector with a favorable Inlet so what
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I did was I grabbed a right angle cable and I cut it in half without the camera
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being turned on and then the plan is to strip off the end of this splice out the
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wires solder the wires into this guy Mount this guy into the bottom of the
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case plug this into the power supply and voila so here we
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go okay so connection one is done just
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like my other jobs little sloppy but it'll
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do wow that one was like probably my best one okay so I've electrical taped
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up my little thingy that I soldered together here so hopefully that looks
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better for one and hopefully it works that's what we're going to test
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now and with a whole lot of
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Hope and it works
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I was a little worried about that
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okay okay okay okay moving on all
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right all right this is our fourth and final coat of primer then we have to do
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a layer of
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black so I spray painted a bug onto the primer
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okay so it's all primed we're ready to start painting um as with basically
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everything else in this project I have no idea what I'm doing um but we're
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going to start with black so this guy is black I believe lonus does know what
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he's doing when it comes to the paint stuff but and he was supposed to show me
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but he had to leave important business of some sort or something or other
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whatever uh um so yeah he's not here so
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we're just going to wing
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it that's probably way more black paint than I
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need but as I have no idea we're going to go with
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that now lus said to roll down on this
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thing towards the paint after dipping it in the paint for 2 minutes um um but I'm
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kind of assuming that he was exaggerating a little bit cuz he thought
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I wouldn't actually do it I'm just going to go for like a
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while okay you have to look at this so I
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just shoved two Ryobi batteries inside
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of the thing so that it wouldn't move when I press paint on it and they
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fit perfectly
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so I think the 2 minutes of squeezing the paint out of it was a huge
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exaggeration oh my God why is this so
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bad and what is that
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pattern when you take all the paint out of the brush you need a lot of pressure
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behind it apparently so that's why it didn't work right away
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down below okay so our first coat of black is
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done honestly it looks pretty okay there's definitely definitely areas
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where it needs more paint so we will definitely definitely have to do another
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coat but for now we're going to let it dry so I'm going to take it inside so
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there's a little bit of a warmer climate at this time of night in the unheated
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Warehouse it's like borderline too cold
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to even be painting so I need to take it into the office so that it can actually
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kind of warm up so that it can
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dry okay