Serial # 002 is born

The last few days have not gone well. I've been trying to come up with a solution for creating a face plate. Up to now I've tried the following things:

• Spy paper( leaves fine paper fibers that will mess up the background color paint)
• Water slide decals. They are not very transparent, it looks blurry.
• Window Cling film (Blurry)
• Transparency, air bubbles

Sunday showed promise, I bought a el-cheapo ($32.99 at Wal-mart) ink jet printer and tore it apart. I'm going to build a ink jet printing machine to print directly onto the Lexan faceplate. The paint should seal and protect the ink, since I'm printing on the back of the Lexan faceplate.

While Amp #1 is still waiting on the face plates and the Ink jet machine, I've started work on Amp #002. This one is for a friend of mine.

Onward to Amp #2

I've tweaked the layout a little to add more room for the larger components and also to keep the components further away from the board standoffs. Here I've made a template (Mirrored) using spy paper and have just ironed it onto the Turret board.

Here's a video of the spy paper dissolving in water. I could have just held it under that water and it would have instantly dissolved, but this way you can see that as soon as this paper gets wet all the binder is gone. All that is left is just a bunch of pulp fibers.

The finished freshly labeled turret board.

Here's a video showing how the turrets are riveted onto the turret board. The cone shaped anvil in the drill chuck spreads the tubular turret outward, thus securing it in place.

The Finished Turret (The underside, since it is tubular a wire can be attached here, as well as on the topside of the board)

Amp #002 is born. I have to pickup some silver solder at Radio Shack tomorrow. Then I'll start soldering some components in place.