Hi all,
I am in the process of building a simple case for my gainclone amp. I have actually been "in the process of building it" for many months, but I am absolutely useless when it comes to this kind of thing, so it sort of hasn't really progressed....
I need to drill some reasonably straight holes in to the base of the heatsinks, on the top and bottom part, to allow the top and bottom perspex panels to be screwed to the heatsinks. Then it's just a case of attaching a front and back panel, which is also drilling some more holes attaching them to the side of the heatsinks (one heatsink on either side of the case. Hopefully that makes sense.
The problem? I have zero power tools, other than a powered hand drill and dremel clone type tool. I have tried on scrap stuff and have found many times that I am absolutely hopeless at drilling straight holes by hand, just by using the eyes! I can't really afford a drill press / pillar drill / whatever-you-call-them at this time, and know nobody with one to "borrow".
I was just wondering if anybody had used one of these, or knows of something like it which would work? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/TREND-SNAPPY-...yZ148467QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Depth doesn't really matter too much in this application. I don't require any accurate depth setting abilities!
If that thing actually works like it says it does, I think that would solve all of my problems, allow me to finish this darned case and get one project completely out of the way!! I think it would also be quite useful for drilling holes in to the heatsink for mounting TO220 style chips / chips with the same size mounting hole (ala lm3886) too. This is something which I am also not very good at because, again, I find they need to be drilled reasonably straight too.
Thoughts? Ideas? Help!
Regards,
Mark
I am in the process of building a simple case for my gainclone amp. I have actually been "in the process of building it" for many months, but I am absolutely useless when it comes to this kind of thing, so it sort of hasn't really progressed....
I need to drill some reasonably straight holes in to the base of the heatsinks, on the top and bottom part, to allow the top and bottom perspex panels to be screwed to the heatsinks. Then it's just a case of attaching a front and back panel, which is also drilling some more holes attaching them to the side of the heatsinks (one heatsink on either side of the case. Hopefully that makes sense.
The problem? I have zero power tools, other than a powered hand drill and dremel clone type tool. I have tried on scrap stuff and have found many times that I am absolutely hopeless at drilling straight holes by hand, just by using the eyes! I can't really afford a drill press / pillar drill / whatever-you-call-them at this time, and know nobody with one to "borrow".
I was just wondering if anybody had used one of these, or knows of something like it which would work? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/TREND-SNAPPY-...yZ148467QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Depth doesn't really matter too much in this application. I don't require any accurate depth setting abilities!
If that thing actually works like it says it does, I think that would solve all of my problems, allow me to finish this darned case and get one project completely out of the way!! I think it would also be quite useful for drilling holes in to the heatsink for mounting TO220 style chips / chips with the same size mounting hole (ala lm3886) too. This is something which I am also not very good at because, again, I find they need to be drilled reasonably straight too.
Thoughts? Ideas? Help!
Regards,
Mark