[sdiy] plastic front-panels?

[harry]

The conductive paints might be good at 100MHz and up....

H^) harry

mikko.a.helin at nokia.com wrote:

> Aren't there some conducting paints you could use to paint the inside? Would it be useful for anything?
> -Mikko
>
> >     Grounding may or may not be a problem, depending on how
> > you look at
> > things.  If you are using phone jacks, the plastic might be good.  It
> > would cut down on the potentials for ground loops.  Mechanically, if I
> > remember right, lucite is pretty brittle (or was that
> > lexan?).  Plastic
> > is also a lot more difficult to drill, but it can be done.  If memory
> > serves me right, other list members have done it and will
> > tell you how.
> >
> >     Another neat thing is you should be able to engrave the legend in
> > the panel, and when you light it up, it should be quite visible.
> > Although, I don't know if you want to do that in the front or the
> > back..??  Although, the engraving part could get expensive.
> >
> >     Definately a lot of posiblilities...
> >
> >     -Jim
> >
> > denshi wrote:
> >
> > > hi all!
> > > its been a dream of mine for a long time to have a
> > > glowing pink modular.  weird dream huh?
> > > well, i want to make the panels using semi-opaque
> > > lucite, or some similar plastic that is decently
> > > strong, and of course milky pink.
> > > are there any electronic considerations?  grounding,
> > > static?  mechanical considerations?  thanks!
> > >
> > > seth s. nemec
> > > denshiblocks at yahoo.com
> > >
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> >
> >

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