how would you get this switch in a box

[Ansil]

i have a 1" unibit.

[The Tone God]

For me when I need to make a hole bigger then say a preamp tube socket I go to a hole bit. Don't get cheap wood cutting saws. Get ones ment for metal. When drilling I dip the saw bit into some greese before cutting and add oil during drilling process as needed. Buy a kit of different hole sizes while your at it. Its cheap enough.

A punch, or one using the punch , may have a hard time going through the thick alloy of say a hammond box.

If you only need that hole size once another more messy solution could be to drill out the hole with your biggest bit and use either a file, reamer, grinder or side cutting bit to expand the hole size. Takes a long time but you get there eventually.

Andrew

[travissk]

Antonio - are you using this as the main stomp switch for a stompbox? If so, how are you accomplishing the switching logic - a FET circuit like some of the Boss/Dod/Ibanez/etc use?

[Yuan Han]

I think you can look at The Tone God's webpage for ideas using CMOS (4000 series) for switching (a whole bunch of them).

I've been thinking of using such pushbutton switches, but drilling a big whole is pretty troublesome..... with no vice and with just a power drill. One could look at vandal resistant buttons used in lifts, etc too. perhaps they'll soon appear on super-high-end-boutique pedals.

or perhaps those pushbuttons with an led built in.....

[{ antonio }]

i am using this for a stutter pedal.  not really any logic behind it.  it is just basically to kill my signal when i want it too.  its a very simple design.

[Desert_Fox]

thanks much for the sites  some of those switches are wicked.

[Paul Marossy]

I have used these

on aluminum enclosures before. They work pretty well. I have even used them on a steel chassis once just recently, and they work OK as long as you drill a pilot hole first and if you keep a slow and steady speed on the drill. It also takes longer to drill than aluminum. But, of course, nothing works better than a tool that is meant for the job...  

[Peter Snowberg]

The picture of that button sent me right back to playing Defender and later Stargate.  :mrgreen: Right back to 5th grade!  :lol:

Take care,
-Peter

[niftydog]

you can get twist drill bits designed for use with sheet metal; the spur bit.



Some people call these dowel bits, because they're also useful for cutting very neat holes in wood for dowels.

still... an inch wide?  doubt you could get it, and you'd need a small prime mover to get enough torque! Interesting to know all the same.

Unibit is the bees knees for this kind of thing... expensive, but they're incredibly useful.

[crawler486]

[Hungeryhippie]

hello, i dont know if this will help but for cutting large holes in metal i use a cone cutter .

[John Catto]

I think I'd take it as far as I could with whatever uni-bit I had handy then mill the rest out with a dremel in a router base with a medium sized jewellers mill (like I use for inlay cavities, they're really made for metal).

[Paul Marossy]

I love my UniBit. It only goes up to a 1/2", but I have gotten thousands of miles of use out of it.