First of all, I put stuff into an album
here but let me point out some details.
http://i.imgur.com/dw0p1kF.jpg That one is pretty straight forward ... I've inserted my switches into the switchplate, which I have pictures elsewhere of, and have carefully laid the SMD-equipped board onto the pins.
Here's a picture with three spacer layers sitting onto the upside down plate. Because of their lack of size, and the harshness of the shop's environment / goons / my sudden stops getting them home / whatever, okay? / etc they're just a bit unstraight. Biggest issue I had was getting screws to go all the way through, but getting them to lay flat as in this picture below, was a close second. HOWEVER once you've jockeyed them into place it all starts to fit together.
My intent, now that I've seen all the parts, is to solder the pins to the board, as in picture one. I find already I'll wish for some kind of squishy thing like woodworkers have to hold pieces together while the glue dries. Moving on ... After pins are soldered, I'll stack three spacer followed by the 'official' lower spacer -- clearing the PCB will be a near thing, but that's what I want -- just enough to know it won't touch.
That pictures, is the spacers I have now -- more on that in a moment -- So, as above, three spacers, followed by the lower spacer which you can make out if you watch for outline changes, followed by another of JD's spacers, and it was bolted together sans base at this point, and moved upright for further fitment tests.
Of particular interest to some, might be the large open gap left by JD's spacer relative to the MD acrylic.
Because my inter-board connector is off-board I don't need anywhere as much clearance which is good, because communication isn't this shop's strong suit. Have I mentioned that?
So, JDcarpe's file is a nested both RH/LH thing. The project manager asked about that -- 'hey this makes two things. Are you ordering
things or
copies of the .dxf? Why, thank you for asking! Copies, not things!
I got things this afternoon. They're going to clean up their mess and
HOPEFULLY I'll have the other half in the morning. And hopefully this won't happen again when I submit the order.
Speaking of which, there's still about four unpaid invoices -- I'll be cancelling those if I don't hear from you
real soon so I can submit the order tomorrow after I finish updating all my notes in my various places. Once these are in my hand and in the mail, I'll be honest I'm probably not going to run a round three. Too many headaches.
A friend asked about buying a laser myself, so I could bypass the shop. Uhh? 1500w turn-key system (meaning all the important stuff is missing so you can buy it next month when you have income from the thing) starts out, supposedly at $300,000 plus maintenance, as they burn through CO2 like it was a fuel -- in addition to the 1500w of electricity.
Ah, well. I hope you're all still excited, because I'm still going forward with spending your money.
Because the Ergodox is metal.