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mnementh:

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--- Quote from: bd139 on July 03, 2022, 11:06:40 am ---Depends how many posts people deleted  :-DD

Revisionist bastards!  :-DD

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Oh right, and you haven't played that game...... how's your halo hanging these days ?  :-DD

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Oh I buried that halo 40 years ago  :-DD
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mnem
What... is it crooked again...?

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Its his secret signal to all the available redheads that he is on the prowl again  :-DD :-DD
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I can still look...

mnem
And every once in a while, a little taste...   

tautech:

--- Quote from: mnementh on July 04, 2022, 12:11:10 pm ---
--- Quote from: tautech on July 04, 2022, 10:43:36 am ---
--- Quote from: Vince on July 04, 2022, 10:07:29 am ---
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--- Quote from: Cerebus on July 03, 2022, 10:49:14 pm ---
--- Quote from: Vince on July 03, 2022, 04:46:45 pm ---Now I think or it, one big advantage of punches is that you can make any shape you want, not just round holes... so it opens up an entire new world of possibilities  8)
You could make a hole with a flat, to fit pots and keep them from spinning round and round, or anything... as long as someone somewhere sells the shape that you want...

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They used to be quite common - you could get punches for the classic potentiometer with flat, D connectors, IEC inlets, and so on. Last time I bought some sheet metal punches the ones for anything other than purely round and rectangular holes seemed to have disappeared off the lists of the moderately priced manufacturers and I didn't look at the extortionately priced ones.

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Made obsolete in industry by laser cutting and CNC routing.
I've bought a 2mm laser cut panel with D shaped holes for less than a blank panel by the equipment case OEM

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Ah yeah, laser cutting... but I hope prices have come down at least, at least an order of magnitude for x1 quantities / prototype since I last looked 15 years ago, where some German company wanted 100 Euros for a small piece of sheet aluminium with a square cut in it for an LCD, and a couple holes for knobs, forthe project I was working on... and they dared bragging about how "affordable" they were, at that !  :wtf:

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For the life of me I couldn't imagine chassis punches were obsolete so fished out an old Farnell catalogue and there they were under Hole Punches !  :horse:
Take your pick:
https://nz.element14.com/c/tools-production-supplies/tools-hand-workholding/punch-tools/prl/results/2?st=hole%20punch
https://nz.rs-online.com/web/c/hand-tools/measuring-marking/punch-die-kits/?pn=1&searchTerm=Hole+punch

Nobody said they were cheap.  ::)
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Yeah, I think those were "the extortionately priced ones" C was talkin' aboot. ;)

Jeezballs... Especially compared to the prices on that AliEx store.   

Even if you only get one hole per punch, still money ahead with the Chinesium ones.
mnem
 :-/O

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Yep it's not until you go looking you realize how much cheap stuff is there.
Earlier I found nearly every shaped die you could imagine and just now found what seems like a better set although this one is not exactly cheap:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002043213080.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.0.0.55467d450vV2WO&algo_pvid=3c8dab22-9351-4742-a90e-98e800450d3e&algo_exp_id=3c8dab22-9351-4742-a90e-98e800450d3e-32&pdp_ext_f=%7B%22sku_id%22%3A%2212000018525364035%22%7D&pdp_npi=2%40dis%21USD%21%2163.99%21%21%21%21%21%40210318b916569340456164196eafc6%2112000018525364035%21sea

Anyways, there's shiploads of all different shapes and sizes available for those that can be bothered hunting them out.

mnementh:

--- Quote from: nixiefreqq on July 04, 2022, 12:14:17 pm ---y'all got me playing with my 54622d ....


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You horrible tease! No pics of the component side, or the main PCB... or the component side of the main PCB...  |O

mnem
*toddles off to polish his wood*

nixiefreqq:

--- Quote from: mnementh on July 04, 2022, 12:32:52 pm ---
--- Quote from: nixiefreqq on July 04, 2022, 12:14:17 pm ---y'all got me playing with my 54622d ....


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You horrible tease! No pics of the component side, or the main PCB... or the component side of the main PCB...  |O

mnem
*toddles off to polish his wood*

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did that back on page 5002.

things move fast on this thread.

(not great pics.  but i am not a camera guy)

mnementh:

--- Quote from: nixiefreqq on July 04, 2022, 12:43:20 pm ---
--- Quote from: mnementh on July 04, 2022, 12:32:52 pm ---
--- Quote from: nixiefreqq on July 04, 2022, 12:14:17 pm ---y'all got me playing with my 54622d ....


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You horrible tease! No pics of the component side, or the main PCB... or the component side of the main PCB...  |O

mnem
*toddles off to polish his wood*

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did that back on page 5002.

things move fast on this thread.

(not great pics.  but i am not a camera guy)

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How the fuck did I miss that...?  :wtf:

It must've been the urethane fumes...  :palm:

Speaking of which, 2nd coat just went down on the Anniversary Project table... not sure how I like it so far. I went with warm semi-gloss to bring some color to the wood, but now thinking I maybe should've either gone hi-gloss or satin.

 :-\

mnem
"Never judge a paint job by the first coat. Patience, youngster." ~grand-dad

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