Well, the preliminary cutting, routing, and drilling of the panel is complete. I did find out some interesting things...
1. Cutting MDF outside and with the wind blowing away minimizes inhalation...however, you can still get sunburned. Yeah. Really.
2. The urge to immediately place the control panel top on the 'box' that it will eventually sit upon, in order to use all of the controls immediately is almost irresistable. If you don't have anything wired you'll find, as I did, that this is really very ineffective.
3. You really can lose yourself in your work. I seem to be missing the hours between 8am and 5pm today.
4. You can rely upon the folks here at BYOAC to be helpful...usually after a little ribbing and the such.

I'm hoping to have everything wired up and ready for testing by tomorrow morning, (time to burn that midnight oil - not the Australian music group - just a figure of speech).
Thanks for the suggestions and direction so far...I'll be back to pester you all again soon.
