[sdiy] Front panels

[harry]

Hi Laurie:

Do you mean the plastic where you engrave the letters ? (In the USA its
called
Gravoply).  I have not used  it for a front panel. Its pretty thick and
too flexible
in large pieces (like a module front.) I think you would need to have
metal behind it
anyway.

The PCB is a nice idea. I wonder if you can still get the laminate in
pretty colors...
they used to have blue... Hmmm copper lettering on royal blue   ;^)

H^) harry

Laurie Biddulph wrote:

> Has anyone looked in to the viability of using plastic laminate
> (usually ABS I think) for front panels. Standard is black with white
> lettering. Much easier to drill than aluminium and most pcb
> manufacturers also can handle ABS laminates. Also Elektor used to make
> a number of products with a pcb based front panel - the few I had
> looked pretty good. Benefit of pcb over plastic is that you could
> leave the copper on the back and use it as a screen.
> Best Regards
> (Mr) Laurie Biddulph
> http://www.ozemail.com.au/~boobies Tel: +61 2 4340 1525
> Fax: +61 2 4340 0936

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