[sdiy] speaking of drilling... Small drill press recommendations?

[Scott]

Yah, you're right, I was looking at the thing in person, and not the photo, but I do see the misalignments on the photo.  I adjusted the few that were the worst when I finalized everything.  

And I was just thinking, if I did know u guys in person and saw your work at a synth club or something, I'd probably have to raise my bar.   But..  All I ever see in my town are like, spray painted things w/ labels written in marker.  So, like I said.. good enough for me.

Besides, once the thing has 50 cables hanging from it, you can't really even see the jacks.


-----Original Message-----
From: Graham Atkins [mailto:gatkins at blueyonder.co.uk] 
Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2009 5:35 PM
To: Scott
Cc: Andre Majorel; synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
Subject: Re: [sdiy] speaking of drilling... Small drill press recommendations?

On my 22" monitor I can see many misaligned items, I would not find  
that acceptable for my work.

Graham (Perfectionist !)

On 27 Jun 2009, at 23:28, Scott wrote:

> You must have a better eye than me, because I don't see it.  Only  
> one I see off is in the row of 8 at the bottom of the gate sequencer.
> But, even that one, there's enough play on those holes to move the  
> jack a mm one way or the other.  I just don't care enough.  I have  
> 100 more modules to finish and I keep getting more PCB's
>
> But, I did mention in that email if I was doing it for someone else,  
> sure I'd punch the holes.  But, doing each hole in one shot vs the 3  
> or even MORE that some were talking about saved me days of work on  
> that panel.  And, it's good enough for me!
>
> U've got to figure the fate of almost all of our synths will be the  
> city dump.  Who in the general public (besides the few here) would  
> have any idea what these machines w/ jacks and knobs do.  We'll be  
> dead, our kid or grandkid will plug it in w/out any cables, and it  
> won't do anything...
> into the trash w/ it.
> (there are enough stories here of people finding them in the trash,  
> or for virtually free cause people don't know what they are)
>
> Guess it depends what you're going for, but close to perfect, better  
> quality work than anyone I have ever met in person, is good enough  
> for me :)
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl [mailto:synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl 
> ] On Behalf Of Andre Majorel
> Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2009 4:43 PM
> To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> Subject: Re: [sdiy] speaking of drilling... Small drill press  
> recommendations?
>
> On 2009-06-27 10:54 -0500, Scott wrote:
>
>> http://www.sdiy.org/wicked1/images/seqpanel.jpg
>> I didn't center punch or pilot hole anything
>
> And it shows. :-) Even on a photo, you can tell the jacks in the
> multiples area are misaligned.
>
> -- 
> André Majorel <URL:http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/>
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