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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: Wiliamo on July 18, 2004, 04:24:20 pm
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I have my Control Panel all installed. The buttons, Sticks, etc... are holding down the Lexan to the CP. When I attacth the T-Moding to the CP, how do you secure the edges of the Lexan to avoid lifting up. I have a 8" area of nothing between the buttons and the bottom of the CP, to rest your hands and wrists. The Lexan is not totally flat against with the CP near the T-Molding.
Thanks,
Wiliamo
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I have my Control Panel all installed. The buttons, Sticks, etc... are holding down the Lexan to the CP. When I attacth the T-Moding to the CP, how do you secure the edges of the Lexan to avoid lifting up. I have a 8" area of nothing between the buttons and the bottom of the CP, to rest your hands and wrists. The Lexan is not totally flat against with the CP near the T-Molding.
Thanks,
Wiliamo
I used screws at aprox. 1 cm (0.4") from the edge ... I like the result !
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I used these, the middle item on the page, Binding Barrels with Screw (http://www.mcmaster.com/asp/DisplCtlgPage.asp?ReqTyp=CATALOG&CtlgPgNbr=3039&CtlgEdition=&RelatedCtlgPgs=3039,3040&sesnextrep=420547352971967), actually found em in the 'specialty hardware' bins at Home Depot. Used 1 at each corner of the CP, gives it a nice machined look, from the top all you see is the plain end of the assembly, almost like a rivet. Aluminum is the ones I found, but it looks like you can get brass, stainless, alum, black, or plastic to fit your look
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Black screws about 1/2" away from the edge.
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I used screwposts.
http://www.screwpost.com/ (http://www.screwpost.com/)
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Thats the same thing I got above. Never really imagined there would be an entire company dedicated to that single item :)
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maybe im alone in this - but i found that my buttoms screwed down were secure enough to hold the plexi down. to t-mold around the edge was fine too. everything is secure with no flappy bits.
garry
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In my old CP I used #8 screws with finishing washers. On my current CP I just let the buttons do the work.
--Chris
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I paint my lexan control panels from underneath with paint desinged for painting lexan remote control car bodies. After paint dries I epoxy to control panel surface. You could just as easily put a bolt in each corner and allow the buttons to hold the lexan in place.
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If you want to reall stand out from the crowd, you can cut your lexan 1/4inch smaller in all directions, and exactly route out the area for the lexan depth
Doing that only works on a good custom CP, alsong as art fits within the borders. You do not need to screw it down then as Wiliamo said the buttons etc hold it in place...
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Thanks to all for the great ideas. I'll probably go the way of Screwposts on this CP. But I really like the idea given by TotallyOut2Lunch. That would really look nice with the right edging around the Lexan. Maybe for my next CP.