MOTM

It sure does seem like a lot of people are painting/taping white lines on
the sides of the module panels to help break up the 'sea of knobs' that we
all hope to one day own. I myself was planning on looking for some white
pin-striping tape this weekend. People with larger collections of existing
modules may blanche at this suggestion, but... should maybe those white
dividers be part of the faceplate graphics...?

If not, I'll just do my pin-striping thing.

This has ben covered in the past, but as a repeat:

I *can't* have this screened on. Why? the silkscreen machine "won't let me".
Can't screen within 0.100 of an outside
edge.

How did Moog do it?

Well, he "didn't"! He used 'reverse anodizing', a *very* expensive process
to
apply the black conent to aluminum panels. The edges are not painted, and
have
clear zinc chromate coating. This costs about $20 per 1U panel! And, the
problem is that
there is a 20% reject rate because you can't control the "blackness" of the
plating very well
batch-to-batch (sort of lke wool dyeing).

One of these centuries I will see if a 'U' channel plastic extrusion can be
made to snap-over
the edges. But the die will cost $1800, probably!

Best solution: ChartPak white tape.

Paul S.
happens to *like* the sea of knobs