MOTM

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
>