[sdiy] Designing front panels for synths

[Roman Sowa]

Yes, right angle strips along backside help a lot.
You must watch out for proper angle while soldering. It tends to shrink 
when it's done, so you have to solder the parts in a few degrees wider 
angle to achieve clean 90 degree at the end. If it's not corner part so 
it can be soldered from 2 sides, do both sides at once piece by piece, 
soldering a bit of here and a bit of there.

Roman

W dniu 2020-10-15 o 16:49, ColinMuirDorward pisze:
>  >>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 
> <mailto: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>
>      > <mailto: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>>
>      >      >> <mailto: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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