"Chronos" wrote in message
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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 ;-)

Always used to be a problem until I clamped down the workpiece in a drill
press and stopped trying to do everything freehand. Also, the old adage of
measure
twice and cut but once helps!

Being impatient myself, I did make a "PCB" by grinding out the lands using a
Dremel-equivalent
miniature grinding wheel, but where I transgressed with that was to grind
each land as I needed it,
after soldering in the previous component, with the result that the board
slowly curved.