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Hi Matthew
--- In wiardgroup@yahoogroups.com, "mritenburg" <mritenburg@...> wrote:>  
> I see no compelling reason why a person should not be able to 
> request aluminum face plates if they are willing to incur the cost.  

i can envision a compelling reason. 
Though at this early stage i concede that it is all speculation. 
But if i understand Grant's original hypothesis, one scenario under
consideration combines the circuit board and the panel. The components
would occupy one side and the controls and jacks would protrude
through the other side. This would obviously impart a lot of material
and assembly savings. But some very innovative and unconventional
engineering would be required to make it work (this time***)
If that method was implemented there would be no discrete faceplate
that could be customized. 
Even if there were a partial implementation of such a scheme, i.e.
some components on a fiberglass 'faceplate' and some on a separate
PCB, Metal faceplates would be precluded.
i'm curious to find out of if  this is indeed what Prof. Richter was
considering. 

-doc

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