We all understand where you are coming from Steve. I occasionally break down and get a
shaeffer panel but they I have to get it coated after I get it from FPE or it will scratch up
madly , out of the box they are too fragile for the money. We are still discussing knobs
and sliders and what kind of resistors to use and you want to go ahead. Have you got a
non .fpd version of the file we can view ?
>
> Ok, I finally got around to finishing this one up - I would have done
> it a week ago but had to deal with a case of Rocky Mountain Spotted
> fever - yuck. Tere's also a screen cap in the misc folder of the
> pictures section for instant gratification.
>
> I really wanted to work this into a 6u panel, hopefully incorporting
> parts of Thomas White's excellent rotary design, but just couldn't
> begin to make it all fit. It's pretty tight in 8u. I started with Jeff
> Pontius's old milton design, and basically erased everything below the
> middle, and incorporated lots of bits from Clickmrmike's and Will and
> Bill's designs, juggling some switch positions to suit my tastes and
> putting back in the switch they left out (it's probably not necessary,
> but there it is). Then I spent forever juggling everything around to
> make it look hunky-dory, at least kind of.
>
> Somehow in the course of doing this the price dropped a bit - my
> original layout with all the holes and labels was over 160$ (US), but
> the finished version is about 146$ - go figure. I did replace a bunch
> of loosely created place holder items with copied and pasted groups of
> items, like the switch boxes - maybe that makes a difference.
>
> I'm highly tempted to create a color version of this one - once you
> sart adding color fills, it's just a flat rate 7$ addon, and you can
> use all the colors you want after that - so since I'm already spending
> a bunch, why not? But there's the deciding on the miriad of choices
> part - fairly daunting. Anyone want to take a crack at this? It's free
> until you press the buy button, of course.
>
> The hole sizes are all for the same hardware synthtech uses - spectrol
> pots, switchcraft 1/4 jacks, nkk bat switches, lumex 5/16 leds, and
> all the knobs are meant to be the smaller version of the standard motm
> style PKES-60B-1/4 knobs. Other stuff would also work fabulously in
> there, but remember to adjust the hole diameters to what you're using.
>
> I'd love to get opinions and feedback on this - this was a pretty big
> undrtaking, and I'm not a graphics designer by any means, so there's
> probably lots of design rules I've stepped all over. And while I've
> read the various klee manuals and checked with the interconnect
> schematics, I may have missed something - let me know if this is the
> case.
>
> Apologies to Scott Deyo for not waiting patiently for his soon-to-be
> much more excellent design, which will of course cost half as much,
> but I've got all the other parts sitting here burning a hole in my
> build time plans. Actually, I'm not really ready to order this yet,
> due to some financial tightness currently - maybe I'll come to my
> senses. And you know you'll be geting a bunch of my money soon anyway
> for brackets for this and some other stuff, so it'll all work out.
> Brackets - I didn't really consider brackets in this design - I'm sure
> there's something that'll work - we'll see.
>
> Steve Drake
>