DIY Front Panels
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 มิ.ย. 2024
- A basic method of creating good looking and highly durable front panels for radio and electronics project boxes, with painting, rub-on lettering and sealing techniques. It's all straightforward, but it can be useful to see it illustrated. And there are a handful of things that make the difference between an average looking front panel and a great looking front panel.
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0:47 Was looking for some DIY Front Panel design and came across your video. Nice work, gave me some good ideas. Thanks. Grtz
My approach can look good and is long lasting, however the rub on lettering is getting harder to find. Good luck!
👍Very interesting, thanks. Remember Letraset and remember thinking I had rubbed a letter on, pulling the sheet away and finding half the letter was still on the sheet 😔.
That happened multiple times during the preparation of this panel! Fortunately the fragment can often be transferred back on with a bit of care.
Neat! Many thanks for sharing.
Hi Alex!
Just a suggestion, to get nice round holes in aluminium use methylated spirits as a coolant/ lubricant.
Good tip! Thanks. Actually my tools are quite basic, a proper workshop would produce improvements. BTW I used methylated spirits as a lubricant coolant when tapping M3 holes in aluminium heatshrink material.
Very nice, I love your case work! Do you make your cases or buy them, if so from whom?
I made all of these cases by hand, just using hand tools. All using aluminium sheet bases and tops, angle sides, front and rears, fastened with pop rivets, and nuts & bolts ranging from M2 to M4, but mostly M2 and M3.
What happened to your other video about the 2B2C transceiver? It was good!
Hi Jo, I unlisted it, as I want to do a short showcase video on the 2B2C rig first. It must have been on a scheduled publish, my little mistake. It will be up again within the week. Thanks for commenting. 73!
It is not really an American pronunciation difference from Europe, etc; "al-you-min-ee-um" is the correct pronunciation for the name "aluminium" (ends with IUM) while "uh-loo-min-um" is the correct pronunciation for the different word "aluminum" (ends with UM). Both versions of the word are considered correct, and it seems that the original name was "alumium", then was changed to "aluminum", then was changed again to the IUM ending of "aluminium", but the Americas stuck with the intermediate version of the name. The IUM was done to make the relatively new name more consistent with some other chemical names ending in IUM, e.g. "potassium".
Thanks again, that's the most thorough explanation of Aluminum I've heard 🤓
Now give me an explanation for Americans calling soldering " soddering"
@johnnz4375 , from various etymology sources, the word "solder", meaning the fusible alloy AND the process of joining things through the use of solder, has a long and complex history, stemming from a Latin source that had an L in it, through the old French 'soldure' and 'souder' (no L) and pronounced much like "sodder", and Old English 'souden' then 'sowden' (meaning to fix in place by application of metallic content). So apparently, while having the Latin origin strained through French and then through a couple forms in Old English, the L was dropped and the pronunciation changed. Then, in modern English the L was reintroduced in the spelling, but some geographical and/or cultural areas preferred to use the older (but not oldest) pronunciation. So, both pronunciations are considered correct.