[R-390] Panels

Sat Dec 28 22:55:58 EST 2013

I did some front panels in Collins S-Line front panel gray. I thought they looked great. It's not as dark as St. James, but I liked it better than the standard gray.

Barry - N4BUQ

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> On Dec 28, 2013, at 8:53 PM, ka9egw1 at britewerkz.com wrote:
> 
> 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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