[sdiy] plastic front-panels?

[Rob B]

How about copper/tin/aluminum tape?

Rob

----- Original Message -----
From: "harry" <harrybissell at prodigy.net>
To: <mikko.a.helin at nokia.com>
Cc: <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 12:21 PM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] plastic front-panels?


> 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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