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Re: My initial take on the panel discussion

2005-12-04 by Dana Countryman

--- In motm@yahoogroups.com, "djbrow54" <davebr@e...> wrote:
>
> I don't want to see my panel edges ... but if I did, I would think 
> that a stamped piece of thin metal or aluminum would do the trick.  It 
> would be in the shape of an I with two holes at the top and two holes 
> at the bottom.  You put the panel in, lay the strip at the edge, and 
> then put the screws through to sandwich the panel between the edge 
> strip.  The top and bottom could have curves to match the screw heads 
> so all you would see was the vertical strip and the piece between the 
> two screw heads.  Simple and easy to do.  
> 
> Dave>>


Yep, that's  how I do it.

http://www.danacountryman.com/misc/TopSynth.jpg

- Dana


> 
> --- In motm@yahoogroups.com, Geoff <overand@o...> wrote:
> >
> > I'm not thinking of a custom manufactured plastic part.  I'm 
> thinking of
> > a custom silkscreen piece of plastic
> > etched off of a large roll of plastic of the same thickness.  It's 
> not
> > an injection-mold thing I'm talking about,
> > I'm talking about laser-etching or otherwise cutting, on a computer
> > controlled system, a large thick set of
> > these things that would be cut from a continuous sheet of plastic, 
> as i
> > described, at the same thickness
> > of 35mm film, or so.  I'll try to research it further.
> > 
> > -Geoff
>

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