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Re: [TowerTalk] RE : custom aluminum panels

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] RE : custom aluminum panels
From: "Keith Dutson" <kdutson@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 10:09:44 -0600
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Same here.

73, Keith NM5G 

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[mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of k6xyz
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 8:45 AM
To: 'Tower Talk List'
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] RE : custom aluminum panels

Anyone else getting multiple messages?
I had received 4 or 5 of this one and others.

Regards

Dave Harmon
NSRCA 586
K6XYZ[at]sbcglobal[dot]net
Sperry, Ok.

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[mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of hermans
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 4:27 AM
To: 'Jerrry BOYD'; 'Tower Talk List'; 'Jim Lux'; 'Richard M. Gillingham'
Subject: [TowerTalk] RE : custom aluminum panels

Any equivalent in Europe, or even in Belgium? ( since the software is german
).
Thanks for a shout.

Jos on4kj

-----Message d'origine-----
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[mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] De la part de Jerrry BOYD Envoyé :
mardi 28 novembre 2006 2:25 À : Tower Talk List; Jim Lux; Richard M.
Gillingham Objet : Re: [TowerTalk] custom aluminum panels


Me too!  Been trying to find someone to fabricate and professionally label a
new front panel for an amp.  Looks like this might do it.  Thanks for
posting Jerry N7WR
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  From: Richard M. Gillingham<mailto:rmoodyg@bellsouth.net>
  To: Tower Talk List<mailto:towertalk@contesting.com> ; Jim
Lux<mailto:jimlux@earthlink.net>
  Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 6:23 PM
  Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] custom aluminum panels


  WOW.  Thanks.  I've been looking for a service like this for some time.

  Gil, W1RG
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  From: "Jim Lux" <jimlux@earthlink.net<mailto:jimlux@earthlink.net>>
  To: "Tower Talk List"
<towertalk@contesting.com<mailto:towertalk@contesting.com>>
  Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 9:08 PM
  Subject: [TowerTalk] custom aluminum panels


  >A great resource when you need an aluminum panel with holes, notches,
  > lettering, etc. at a reasonable price is a company called Front Panel 
  > Express.
  >
  > http://www.frontpanelexpress.com/<http://www.frontpanelexpress.com/>
  >
  > you download their software, design up your panel and send the order
  > off electronically. They've got libraries with all manner of weird
  > cutouts: D holes for things like BNC connectors, Sub D multipin
  > connectors.  And, they do holes of all shapes and sizes (including
  > tapped), pocket milling, engraved legends, etc.  Essentially anything
  > a good NC mill can do to a piece of flat aluminum.
  >
  > You can also get it finished in a variety of passivations, or paint,
etc.
  >
  > Delivery time is usually less than a week (depending on how much you
  > want to pay).
  >
  > It's remarkably cheap (standard 19" rack panels 4 U high with a bunch
  > of connectors run around $50, and most of the cost is the aluminum..
  > tapped holes are something like 0.38 each and so forth) and I daresay
  > you'd have a very hard time duplicating their product at home, unless
  > you have a good NC mill and a lot of programming time.
  >
  > We use them at work for things like breadboarding microwave circuits
  > (you know, you get all those little modules from Minicircuits and
  > need to screw them down to something).  I've made waveguide pass
  > through panels (the WG opening and the 4 tapped holes for the flange
  > bolts) to mount into the side of, strangely enough, a NEMA 4 Hoffman
box.
  >
  > Truly an amazing service.
  >
  > The software and machinery is made by a German company, and
  > occasionally, the software displays an error message in German, but
  > you can figure it out, and go on.  The place you send your order to
  > and which does the work is in Washington state.
  >
  >
  > No excuse for ugly connector panels where the bulkhead feed throughs
  > keep spinning when you tighten the connector!
  >
  > Jim, W6RMK
  >
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