MOTM

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@...m, "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
> > >
> >
>