Hard-cover Video Game Manual

I finished this months ago, and it works, but I did the binding poorly, and so the book doesn't work very well. I don't have the materials to redo this particular book, so it's going to be left in its present (working poorly) state.

The mistake I made was that I left too much slack in the spine portion of the cover, and made the chipboard covers go all the way to the spine of the book. Combine that with some rather imprecise alignments while gluing the pages together, and the book is just a total pain to work with.

Because of the problems listed above, I've had a hard time finishing up the documentation. The process I've used is basically correct, but I didn't execute it correctly.

I managed to accomplish quite a bit today....

• Acquire wax paper (local grocery store)
• Acquire sheet metal (Home Depot)
• Discover the metal brake is poorly adjusted, turning my first cut into a fold
• Discover the disadvantages of using tin snips for long cuts through sheet metal (it bends your scrap and creates sharp edges)
• Locate some help to fix the metal brake
• Do a preliminary fix for the metal brake, only to discover the machine wasn't holding tension (removing safety guards, tuning distance/tension on brake's blade)
• Fix the metal brake for real
  • Clean most of the metal brake, via acetone and shop towels.
  • Apply loctite to bolts that need it
  • Tune metal brake distances
• Construct jig
• Glue pages
• Document

Tomorrow, I'll hopefully be able to trim the text block, and glue the cover on the book. I'll update once done.