Vince, I've had good luck with applying painter's tape to the edge that I am going to cut, and then removing it after I am done. That seems to mostly control chipping.
- Alex On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Vince Mulhollon <[email protected]> wrote: > Plywood's more dimensionally stable because the plys are aligned at > different angles, thats the good news. The bad news is even with the > "fancy" plywood blades that stuff chips pretty well depending on glue bond. > My luck is whenever I don't care what a plywood cut looks like, it looks > like it was cut with a laser, and when I really need nice edges its > inevitably not my lucky day. Of course there are tricks to that too, like > cutting really one really wide board and letting it chip out all it wants > and then ripping to width at the end of the project. > > I'll have to think further about the whole wood issue. > > > > On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 6:14 PM, J. Alexander Jacocks <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Vince, >> >> I, too, am working on a wooden chassis, but I was going to use >> hardwood plywood for mine. I'd be curious to see what you have in >> mind. >> >> - Alex >> >> On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Vince Mulhollon <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > I'm thinking of making an oak card cage for my 18 S100 slots. I've got >> > the >> > original IEEE-696 physical parameters, is that good enough for all >> > modern >> > N8VEM projects? >> > >> > Nice thick oak to be non-flexible. Thinking a short "U" with the board >> > at >> > the bottom and slots cut in the arms. Probably not coming up all the >> > way on >> > the side of the cards. That rather firmly bolted to standard rack mount >> > shelf (heavy duty) bolted inside a steel rack case >> > >> > Poly coated on all surfaces for humidity stability and it'll live in a >> > stable climate controlled area at constant temp/humidity anyway. >> > >> > Will live inside a ventilated steel chassis I have access to for EMI/RFI >> > whatever. Thank you PCI/DSS financial regulations for forcing the >> > production of cool little networking device cases with great ventilation >> > and >> > locks and access on all sides etc. >> > >> > I have more than enough 'leet table saw skills to pull this off. >> > >> > I'm thinking of two MBs one on top of another in the rack case. I've >> > got >> > 12U of space to hold these two MBs which will make a tight fit >> > vertically >> > but probably survivable (Will have to model that extensively, maybe I >> > can >> > get access to a 16U case...) >> > >> > Crazy? Sane? Better idea? I can' t be the first guy in 40 years to >> > think >> > of oak as a card cage material. Also are all the N8VEM cards under the >> > IEEE >> > size standards around the perimeter? I've seen some mighty full cards >> > with >> > "stuff" right up to the edge. >> > >> > Curious if anyone tried it and the tannins in the oak made their pcb >> > corrode >> > or poly finish sticks to rosin flux or something I haven't even >> > considered >> > yet. >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> > Groups >> > "N8VEM" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> > an >> > email to [email protected]. >> > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/n8vem. >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "N8VEM" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/n8vem. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "N8VEM" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/n8vem. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "N8VEM" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/n8vem. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
