[R-390] Panels

Sat Dec 28 21:53:21 EST 2013

Chuck, the panel on my radio you did looks absolutely splendid!  Please do
not think I was disparaging your work in any way!

I have a little CNC mill [strictly as a hobby pursuit at this point], plus
some other bigger machine tools; I make some custom Harley parts for my
friends, and am starting to dabble in custom iambic paddles having worn
out my Bencher after 30 years plus and not rich enough to buy a Begali,
and I do odd one-off's here and there...see, making metal chips is what
keeps me sane when the weather sucks for riding *and* the band sucks for
radio-ing [both of which happen simultaneously far too often here in the
frozen tundra of Occupied Cheeseland].  If I were to get into making
R-390A panels, it would be more as a labor of love than expecting to make
any real dough at it...but a bigger CNC mill WOULD allow me to take in
other work I maybe *could* make a buck at.

My comment was inspired solely by idle curiosity--I've seen a HP
grey/black lettered '390A which I thought looked OK, and there's that one
black wrinkle one keeps reappearing on eBay [or more than one], and I've
seen pix of an OD green one, but never one in St. James Grey...

And also if I can get Junior into it, he will learn some autoCAD skills
and CNC skills which definitely have to pay better than burger-flipping...

'Twas never my intent to stir anything up other than to assuage my own
idle curiosity...beats watching Junior and the XYL fight with Win8 vs
Netflix...this is why I have a terminal in the shop too HI HI

73, Brian KA9EGW

> Brian,
>
> I have some engraved panels that would re-finish just fine.  As I
> recall, the panel on your radio looked pretty good.
>
> Tisha makes an excellent point which also serves to illustrate why I
> don't refinish a quantity of panels.
>
> --
> Chuck Rippel
>
> "Many of the truths to which we cling depend on our point of view."
> - Yoda
>
>
>> Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 19:31:42 -0600
>> From: "KA9EGW" <ka9egw1 at britewerkz.com>
>> To: <r-390 at mailman.qth.net>
>> Subject: [R-390] 390A engraved panels
>> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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>>
>> I had started the CAD files, for engraved panels, but we?re looking at
>> a
>> total of about 10 hours total CAD time [once], probably 2-3 hours of
>> CAM
>> time [4 different setups as my little mill can only do ? of the panel
>> at a
>> time] and $35 in materials for 6061-T6.
>> Yes, I?m kicking myself in the counterpoise for not spending the extra
>> thousand for a PCB gantry mill or the extra 2K for a CNC
>> Bridgeport?anyone
>> got a good cnc mill near Beloit, WI they?ll trade for a KWS-1?  73,
>> Brian
>> KA9EGW
>>
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