If you wanted to be careful, you wouldn't USE a router....... (more)

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Posted by Intensify on 11, 2001 at 9:07 AM:

In Reply to: Re: Installing a Happ 3.5 inch Trackball question? posted by robert mcelwee on 11, 2001 at 5:12 AM:

If I was going to sink the faceplate into a control panel that was already built, I'd use a chisel and a hammer, or a friggin swiss army knife... :-/

I would DEFINITELY spend like 2 hours CARVING a space for the faceplate than 10 seconds totally messing up my control panel, and have to spend COUNTLESS hours building a new one. :)

Just my $.02 :)

--Intensify

: : If I want to install the trackball onto a ľ’ thick wood control panel, how is the trackball face plate installed in?

: When I built my spinner/track panel I got in a hurry and didn't flush mount it. I figured that I would be upset with the results and end up redoing it but now I really don't see any problems with having the plate a little higher than the formica. If I were doing it over (and really wanted to sink it) I would probably use a router and sink it into the formica. You would have to be really careful (which is another reason I didn't redo it) because one slip and you would have to scrap the entire panel and start from scratch.

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Re: If you wanted to be careful, you wouldn't USE a router....... (more) Steve 5/11/2001 (0)
unless you made a template to control the router first (nt) bob 5/11/2001 (1)
- True.. but in the time that took, I could have carved it out... :) {nt} Intensify 5/11/2001 (0)

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: If I was going to sink the faceplate into a control panel that was already built, I'd use a chisel and a hammer, or a friggin swiss army knife... :-/ : I would DEFINITELY spend like 2 hours CARVING a space for the faceplate than 10 seconds totally messing up my control panel, and have to spend COUNTLESS hours building a new one. :) : Just my $.02 :) : --Intensify : : : If I want to install the trackball onto a ľ’ thick wood control panel, how is the trackball face plate installed in? : : When I built my spinner/track panel I got in a hurry and didn't flush mount it. I figured that I would be upset with the results and end up redoing it but now I really don't see any problems with having the plate a little higher than the formica. If I were doing it over (and really wanted to sink it) I would probably use a router and sink it into the formica. You would have to be really careful (which is another reason I didn't redo it) because one slip and you would have to scrap the entire panel and start from scratch.

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