[sdiy] finished my Fatman!

[Ken Luke]

The desktop case is exactly what I did, I'm pretty happy with the form factor.

It also gave me an excuse to go out and buy quality tools, I probably spent 
half again the price of the kit on upgrading some of my tools. Two items 
really helped: real wire strippers (I got the Stripmaster with the 
replaceable blades) and wire cutters with a safety catch (I got part 
#758PL174 from techni-tool.com)

the wire cutters really helped because I'm so near-sighted that my glasses 
make it difficult to do up-close work. Since I have to take my glasses off 
to peer real close to make sure that I'm cutting the correct lead, I was 
concerned about getting stabbed in the eye with a flying wire fragment. The 
safety catch retains the wire fragment, this is also a benefit in that it 
doesn't drop down into the bowels of whatever I'm working on.

At 03:12 PM 9/4/2003, you wrote:
>Congratulations on your first project!
>
>Heh, I've had a Paia Fatman kit sitting in my bedroom for almost a year now
>and I haven't even started on it. I still need to order the desktop case for
>it, though, as I don't like the rackmount scheme they have.
>
>It's time I stopped yapping,
>Darren


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  Ken Luke                               ken_luke at mentor.com
  "Complexity is easy; Simplicity is hard."
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