Chronos wrote:
On Wed, 20 Aug 2014 11:38:57 +0100
"gareth" wrote:

Nowadays, to manufacture an HF RX, with all the concomitant
high density ICs that are around, the biggest design chore
is to cut out the opening for the LCD display on the front
panel.

I have to say that anyone who can make a decent looking front panel has
my admiration. My attempts at chassis bashing have always looked like
something salvaged from a rather nasty car accident. The Dremel doesn't
help - it just makes making a mess faster ;-)

http://www.frontpanelexpress.com

Now, they don't do any fancy 3-D work, so if you are of a mind to have
heatsinks in the panel or fancy bezels around your slide rule display
along with the mounts for the pulleys built into the front panel, you
will be out of luck.

But if you don't mind machining the pulley mounts separately and having
a second metal plate with the scale bolted on standoffs to get your
frequency display for the tuning, it can work out nicely.
--scott
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