[sdiy] Keeping Busy this weekend

[patchell]

    Too many projects...

    I have thought at times about getting a Whitney punch, (I used one
once...they are Fantastic!)..for some odd reason I figured they were really
expensive, or, did you manage to find a nice used one?

    And, while I am asking questions...Any news about the exact date of the
Northwest DIY get together?

John L Marshall wrote:

> Jim,
>
> Zounds! How may projects are working on at the same time?
>
> Yes it is a good weekend to make progress.
>
> I decided that it would be easier and cleaner to punch holes in front panels
> rather than drill them. I bought a Roper Whitney #17, deep throat, 5 ton,
> punch press. I feel like I am at Las Vegas. 180 pulls on the arm and I am
> the winner. The punch press is a great investment.
>
> I also bought a deep well socket set. Deep well sockets made it really easy
> to tighten potentiometer and banana jack nuts.
>
> I just started soldering.
>
> Photos coming soon.
>
> Take care,
> John
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "patchell" <patchell at silcom.com>
> To: <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
> Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 10:04 AM
> Subject: [sdiy] Keeping Busy this weekend
>
> >     Well, here is one of the things that kept me busy this weekend.
> >
> > http://www.silcom.com/~patchell/synthmodules/patgenpcb.jpg
> >
> >     It is a 16 x8 pattern generator I am working on.  The PCB is
> > complete in this picture, except for the LED's.  The reason they are not
> > in yet, is I am not sure how it is I am going to get them in...a very
> > complicated story.  It was bad enough getting the switches in.  To get
> > it to go into the panel, I figured I would have to solder the switches
> > to the PCB while it was mounted in the panel...easier said than done.
> > Trying to get 128 switchs that are just flopping in the breeze to go
> > into a 128 holes in a panel is quite an exercise...One that I will have
> > to repeat soon here (I am making two of these).
> >
> >     If this doesn't prove I am crazy...I don't know what will.
> >
> > --
> >  -Jim
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> > *I'm sure glad Merry Christmas comes just once a year
> > * -Yogi Yorgensen
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> >
> >

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 -Jim
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