[sdiy] plastic front-panels?

[Jim Patchell]

    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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