If you've had a really good run of successful builds lately...

[JabboWookie]

...and you think your enclosure drilling game is ON POINT...try a VFE build!

I am so glad I don't do this for a living, I have a feeling my margins would end up in the trash bin.

[Aentons]

Sounds like you need to get an auto center punch.

[JabboWookie]

Got one! Plus a decent drill press. Measured 10x, punched and drilled once. I'm not a CNC machine, I'm bound to not be perfect. Not much room for error with this thing.

[gordo]

I've just used the build doc drill guide.  Make sure you're printing to scale and exact.  Spend a bit of time aligning the template.  Tape it down and use a small bit to drill center holes.  Drill to specified hole size and you're gold.  Tricky part is getting the template taped down but visual is close enough.

[JabboWookie]

I've just used the build doc drill guide.  Make sure you're printing to scale and exact.  Spend a bit of time aligning the template.  Tape it down and use a small bit to drill center holes.  Drill to specified hole size and you're gold.  Tricky part is getting the template taped down but visual is close enough.

It was just a general observation guys. Build was successful.

[alanp]

One good thing about synths, I can be lazy and make someone with a factory full of precision machinery CNC drill and mill panels for me. With these new aluminium PCBs, I can even have aluminium panels done this way, not just FR4 front panels!

[blearyeyes]

One good thing about synths, I can be lazy and make someone with a factory full of precision machinery CNC drill and mill panels for me. With these new aluminium PCBs, I can even have aluminium panels done this way, not just FR4 front panels!

Thank goodness for a rat tailed reamer.


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[reddesert]

rat tailed reamer.

If Madbean doesn't name a pedal "Rat Tailed Reamer" in 2018, I'm quitting this board and going into business selling Monte Allums-style mods for cheap Chinese SMT pedals.

[fair.child]

Rat tailed reamer == Alpha Dog??

[somnif]

Seems like a good name for an Expandora. Take a Rat, boost the gain floor, then put the gain control on an envelope follower and go nuts.