NRE=non-recurring engineering. I referred to it as in tooling and
design costs.
Using laser cut there is no up front tooling charges but the parts
would be a higher piece price. I have no idea at what quantity the
break even point would be but doubt that we'd come close to it. Would
be worth looking at, though.
Dave
--- In motm@yahoogroups.com, "mate_stubb" <mate_stubb@y...> wrote:
>
> What's NRE?
>
> Moe
> --- In motm@yahoogroups.com, "djbrow54" <davebr@e...> wrote:
> >
> > I'm thinking you could do these in lexan. To avoid any NRE, you
could
> > probably go with 0.030" clear and still laser cut it. The top and
> > bottom portions could be the dimensions of the screw head so that
the
> > only visible portion would be between the screws and the vertical.
> >
> > You could use clear lexan so the black could show through. It
would
> > probably need to be 0.25" wide to provide enough rigidity but
could
> > have a much thinner stripe silkscreened on it, perhaps 0.125".
This
> > would then leave only a very narrow clear portion on either side.
> >
> > There would be very little NRE but the piece price would be
higher.
> > At a certain volume it would make sense to stencil cut the lexan.
> >
> > If there is enough interest I may be talked into checking further.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
> > --- In motm@yahoogroups.com, Robert van der Kamp <robnet@w...>
wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sunday 04 December 2005 18:07, djbrow54 wrote:
> > > > A flat piece of metal. The "I" referred to the shape, not
> > > > the cross section. It is held in by the two side screws
> > > > of the module plus the two side screws of the adjacent
> > > > module. To replace a module you'd need to take out 8
> > > > screws but the adjacent modules would stay in place since
> > > > they still had 2 screws each on their other respective
> > > > sides.
> > > >
> > > > Nothing behind the panel, nothing in-between to change
> > > > the spacing, simply a decorative piece of trim sandwiched
> > > > between the screws and the modules on the surface. I put
> > > > a drawing in the files section. 'vertical.jpg'
> > >
> > > That's a very nice idea!
> > >
> > > Not sure about the cosmetics though. The construction near
> > > the screws could be ugly, especially since I'm looking for
> > > a very subtle separator. I think a single white or metal
> > > colored line, the width of the graphic lines on e.g. the
> > > MOTM-300 would be more than adequate. Anything thicker will
> > > probably not look very sexy, but I'd love to be wrong here.
> > >
> > > - Robert
> > >
> >
>