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RE: [motm] jack only mounting brackets.

2003-05-02 by John Loffink

I wouldn't recommend this.  Have you tried drilling Larry's steel PCB
brackets?  They're pretty tough to drill, drill press or not, even worse
if you need to drill 8-20 3/8 inch holes for jacks.

My recommendation is two L shaped brackets, one with two jack holes, one
with a single pot hole.  You would straddle the DIY panel across two of
these mounted to the front panel.  The two varieties give a mix and
match capability for PCB mounting with all jacks, all pots or a mixture,
without limitations on where the pots or jacks are located horizontally.

John Loffink
jloffink@... 

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> 
> I think the easiest thing to do is to make brackets that have NO
> holes in them. We can then just drill whatever holes we need for
> whatever bizarre PCB happens to come along. If you try to second
> guess every possible combination of hole spacing, you'll need to have
> 10,000 different kinds of brackets in stock.
> 
> The 4 brackets you currently stock should meet most PCBs sizes
> (except some sequencers and JP's vocal filter). If you could do those
> 4 brackets without holes, I believe this would be good enough.
>

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