Sat 16 December 2006 |
| Continuing with the clean up / finishing of the oil flap. Sanding back the 2oz and blending the edges. | 
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| The cowl edges were re-done also - everything seems to be sitting down well now. The cowl still needs a finishing layer of glass at some point. | 
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| This is the underside - shows the hartwell latches closed. Works well but I'll probably add a ~0.032" spacer between the latches and door to help the alignment a little. | 
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| Close up detail of the AL reinforcement plus single 2oz layer. The latch has made a nice 'seat' in the glass and locates well. | 
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| Then I went back to proto-typing the annunciator stuff. Yesterday I managed get some smoked 4.5mm thick acrylic sheet and also a test order into RS components for some DIP mountable LED bars. I re-did the CAD layouts and made a new plastic insert. | 
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| One of the problems is I end up with square corners (rather than filleted / round corners) with the above milling, so more testing for the panel cutout. | 
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| This is the example result, a board with the LEDs will mount behind this. Look like it should work and provide a 'smooth' front surface to the panel. A couple queries are outstanding - one in particular is how well the coloured lights comes through the smoked glass. We will hopefully find out later in the week. | 
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