[sdiy] Keeping Busy this weekend

[John L Marshall]

Jim,

Zounds! How may projects are working on at the same time?

Yes it is a good weekend to make progress.

I decided that it would be easier and cleaner to punch holes in front panels
rather than drill them. I bought a Roper Whitney #17, deep throat, 5 ton,
punch press. I feel like I am at Las Vegas. 180 pulls on the arm and I am
the winner. The punch press is a great investment.

I also bought a deep well socket set. Deep well sockets made it really easy
to tighten potentiometer and banana jack nuts.

I just started soldering.

Photos coming soon.

Take care,
John


----- Original Message -----
From: "patchell" <patchell at silcom.com>
To: <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 10:04 AM
Subject: [sdiy] Keeping Busy this weekend


>     Well, here is one of the things that kept me busy this weekend.
>
> http://www.silcom.com/~patchell/synthmodules/patgenpcb.jpg
>
>     It is a 16 x8 pattern generator I am working on.  The PCB is
> complete in this picture, except for the LED's.  The reason they are not
> in yet, is I am not sure how it is I am going to get them in...a very
> complicated story.  It was bad enough getting the switches in.  To get
> it to go into the panel, I figured I would have to solder the switches
> to the PCB while it was mounted in the panel...easier said than done.
> Trying to get 128 switchs that are just flopping in the breeze to go
> into a 128 holes in a panel is quite an exercise...One that I will have
> to repeat soon here (I am making two of these).
>
>     If this doesn't prove I am crazy...I don't know what will.
>
> --
>  -Jim
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