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> From: elle_webb <elle_webb@...>
> I used a piece of stiff cardboard for a couple of Scott Juskiw's cool
designs. THE PANELS REALLY SUCKED! Drilling cardboard just doesn't work -
and little bits of cardboard kept on rubbing off everytime I used it. A DIY
embarassment!

LH:  I gotta say, I can really see how that woudl totally suck. :) nyck,
nuck

> It would be nice to have 1u and 2u panels that have the max number of
holes drilled out, but just little white boxes where the labels should be.
Then we could use a dry erase marker to label them, and make temp panels
that we wouldn't be embarassed by.  Could be a Stooge opportunity. Any
interest?

LH:  When I first saw this, I thought, NFW (like the Norfork & Way Pal
railroad).  But, I will offer up whaT I think are some decent thoughts for
ways to do non-embarassing DIY temporary panels.  Now, what is non
embarassing no one person may not be to the next, so try to be open minded:

The king of non-embarassing temporary panels (IMHO anyhow) is paper printed
with your ink jet or laser printer, glued to the panel and covered with
spattered clear satin laquer. See here:
http://www.wiseguysynth.com/larry/misc/blacet_freq_divide.jpg

I've had people actually touch these and not realize they are not the real
thing.  Props to Ken Tkacs (who is WAY too quiet on this list these days
BTW) for showing me how to do this:

Then, when I did the prototype for the 850, I used my $35 casio label
printer.  Sucks for permanent.  But for temporary, the vaccum level is
something below watermelon through a garden hose.
http://www.wiseguysynth.com/larry/misc/850-proto-face.jpg

I have heard, but not seen, that the EFM kits (repeat 3 times after me, "I
am NOT recommending EFM kits") come with "stickers" which were printed out
on some kind of self adhesive paper with the home printer.  That seems way
cool to me for temporary home panels.

To me, all temporary panels will "suck less" if they do not come drilled
with every possible hole. :)

OK, that's my $.02 on the subject.  Now, can there be something out of
Stooge products to help.  Sure!  come to some reasonable consensus and we
will do these best we can.

Larry