MOTM

What's NRE?

Moe
--- In motm@yahoogroups.com, "djbrow54" <davebr@e...> wrote:
>
> I'm thinking you could do these in lexan.  To avoid any NRE, you could 
> probably go with 0.030" clear and still laser cut it.  The top and 
> bottom portions could be the dimensions of the screw head so that the 
> only visible portion would be between the screws and the vertical.
> 
> You could use clear lexan so the black could show through.  It would 
> probably need to be 0.25" wide to provide enough rigidity but could 
> have a much thinner stripe silkscreened on it, perhaps 0.125".  This 
> would then leave only a very narrow clear portion on either side.
> 
> There would be very little NRE but the piece price would be higher.  
> At a certain volume it would make sense to stencil cut the lexan.
> 
> If there is enough interest I may be talked into checking further.
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> --- In motm@yahoogroups.com, Robert van der Kamp <robnet@w...> wrote:
> >
> > On Sunday 04 December 2005 18:07, djbrow54 wrote:
> > > A flat piece of metal. The "I" referred to the shape, not
> > > the cross section. It is held in by the two side screws
> > > of the module plus the two side screws of the adjacent
> > > module.  To replace a module you'd need to take out 8
> > > screws but the adjacent modules would stay in place since
> > > they still had 2 screws each on their other respective
> > > sides.
> > >
> > > Nothing behind the panel, nothing in-between to change
> > > the spacing, simply a decorative piece of trim sandwiched
> > > between the screws and the modules on the surface.  I put
> > > a drawing in the files section. 'vertical.jpg'
> > 
> > That's a very nice idea!
> > 
> > Not sure about the cosmetics though. The construction near 
> > the screws could be ugly, especially since I'm looking for 
> > a very subtle separator. I think a single white or metal 
> > colored line, the width of the graphic lines on e.g. the 
> > MOTM-300 would be more than adequate. Anything thicker will 
> > probably not look very sexy, but I'd love to be wrong here.
> > 
> > - Robert
> >
>