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CheffoJeffo:

--- Quote from: pmc on September 20, 2005, 07:59:30 pm ---Happ pica vinyl or Parts Express vinyl. Twoud be best if I could get it in small bits since I need so little. Happs is $5 a foot plus shipping. Parts Express is like $15 a roll. Easy sleazy. No artwork to choose, fold the edges under and bang on some T-mold. Seems to be the easiest. Texturing is a plus. Color choice is more limited (black seems to be popular).

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I used Happs pica on the CPs for my cocktail and have been *very* happy with it in terms of feel. But then, I wanted a completely black box with coloured controls, so the artistic aspect (e.g. no CP art) didn't bother me.

Cheers.

Minwah:

--- Quote from: jcrouse on September 20, 2005, 06:42:34 pm ---I am also not sure if I want the heads of carriage bolts exposed or not.

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I like having exposed carriage bolt heads - most machines I remember did this, including a lot of control panels I have taken apart for parts.

I know a lot of people prefer the 'cleaner' look of using t-nuts however, not possible with a metal panel tho.
Minwah:
This is a bad picture but you can just about see how I did mine.  The rounded edge is two thicknesses of 18mm (3/4") MDF glued/screwed together.  I manually rounded the top & bottom off, and covered with Happ vinyl.

You can see a white line between the rounded part and my CPO - this is the edge of the CPO being picked up by the camera flash.  It is not usually too noticable, and is not due to the CPO being too thick or CP being too high but rather I rounded the curve off a little too much.  In hindsight I could have put a control panel in and filled up to the CP level, I didn't even notice it at the time.  It is probably only <1mm out anyway...
webgeek:

--- Quote --- Plexi scratches, and scuffs over time making your art underneath look dull.
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Yes, but you can also polish shallow scratches out of plexi very easily.

Mike
RayB:

--- Quote from: webgeek on September 21, 2005, 07:45:07 am ---
--- Quote --- Plexi scratches, and scuffs over time making your art underneath look dull.
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Yes, but you can also polish shallow scratches out of plexi very easily.

Mike

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You can also re-paint things, but most people want durable solutions with little to no maintenance.
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