[sdiy] Designing front panels for synths

[ColinMuirDorward]

>>because it's PCB you can easily solder stiffeners made of different parts
of PCB making it solid as a rock.

Anyone else doing anything like this? I've been imagining soldering long,
thin, right angle strips along the backside of the panel. Any tips, Roman?

C

On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 7:15 AM Roman Sowa <modular at go2.pl> wrote:

> It was raw material. I was lucky to get one big sheet of 1-sided copper
> clad epoxy from one of the proffesors at my uni for free. That was in
> times when getting any scrap of copper clad was a challenge. But being
> 1-sided and rather old, it was not the best choice for etching a circuit.
> This wasn't obviously big enough, so it's 2 parts soldered together.
>
> Roman
>
> W dniu 2020-10-15 o 15:46, Spiros Makris pisze:
> > Wow, now that's extreme! Did you buy the board material raw in bulk or
> > is this ordered from some fabhouse? I can't help but think that it would
> > be rather expensive to get this from a fabricator.
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 2:01 PM Roman Sowa <modular at go2.pl
> > <mailto:modular at go2.pl>> wrote:
> >
> >     Here you are, 90kB picture taken just now.
> >     The bottom base plate, end cheeks and front bar are made of
> chipboard.
> >     Everything else is PCB (except the keys obviously).
> >     The sad thing is also seen in this picture, it's standing in the
> >     storage
> >     among other sad keyboards :(
> >
> >     Roman
> >
> >     W dniu 2020-10-15 o 11:41, Adam Inglis (sdiy) pisze:
> >      >
> >      >
> >      >> On 15 Oct 2020, at 6:44 pm, Roman Sowa <modular at go2.pl
> >     <mailto:modular at go2.pl>
> >      >> <mailto:modular at go2.pl <mailto:modular at go2.pl>>> wrote:
> >      >>
> >      >> The biggest thing I made out of PCB was 140cm long cover for DIY
> >      >> keyboard and it feels almost like made out of 1mm steel, and
> >     because
> >      >> it's easily solderable, I could build fancy mounting system, so
> >     there
> >      >> are absolutely no screws on top.
> >      >
> >      >
> >      > OK Roman, you can’t get away with that statement … without a
> >     picture!!
> >      >   C’mon, we need evidence...
> >      >
> >      > A
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