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- From: bonobo@Ingres.COM (David Victor)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: A construction question about front panels for home-brew projects...
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.012025.13775@pony.Ingres.COM>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 01:20:25 GMT
- Reply-To: bonobo@Ingres.COM (David Victor)
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- Organization: Ask Computer Systems Inc., Ingres Division, Alameda CA 94501
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- I'm trying to make a nice-looking aluminum front panel for a project,
- and I'd like to be able to use rectangular switches, possibly other
- squared-off displays, etc. How do you cut a perfectly-squared-off hole
- in an aluminum panel? Is there some home-brew method I'm not aware of?
-
- Also, what's a good way to do the lettering? I've got a LaserJet, but
- how do you transfer what's on paper to what's on the panel?
-
- Recently, I heard about a method of PCB manufacture whereby you print
- your PCB design to some special type of paper, iron it on a copper-clad
- board, and then etch as usual. Seems to me there might be something
- similar for lettering. That way, you could lay the entire thing out on
- a Laser printer, iron it on, and then maybe seal it with some kind of
- polymer-based sealant...
-
- -David Victor
-