I think Dave mentioned the dangers of drilling holes in these pcbs on his site somewhere - I believe there's some inner copper plane of some sort, and unless you're very careful you risk shorting it out and damaging the unit.
There are other ways you can mount the pcb - I used a bunch of nylon standoffs - threaded on one end, and with pcb clips on the other end - mouser sells these; and then used zip ties to hold the pcb down on these - you can kind of see this in this pic -
https://flic.kr/p/dnLSJz-Steve
On Aug 23, 2014, at 5:52 PM, Richard Brewster pugix@... [motm] <motm-noreply@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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>> I just finished up doing a 5U conversion of the E560 Deflector Shield. It's basically the same as my E580 conversion but I took some photos and built a web page for it. Most of the conversion details are on my 580 page. This is a very nice module!
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