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Old Aug 8, 2005 | 03:05 PM
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hey guys,
i have this burried in a thread of mine in the appearance section, but its for my nitrous setup so i wanted to show it off here.

here is a pic of my switch panel that I made.

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its plexaglass. I painted the backside black and then CNC'ed it from the back. I'm going to use the ashtray light underneath it so it will illuminate the lettering red at night. should look pretty cool

the holes on the top are for my switches
arm is to arm nitrous,
open to open the bottle
heat for the bottle heater
the center hole, left side is for the LED to let me know my cutout is fully opened
the center hold right side is for the switch for my line lock
bottom left is for the switch for my electric cutout
bottom right is for my purge push button



i didn't really like the ones i saw forsale online, so I made this one. Plus nobody else has one like it
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Old Aug 8, 2005 | 03:09 PM
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looks great
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Old Aug 8, 2005 | 04:08 PM
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Has a nice mil-spec look about it
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Old Aug 8, 2005 | 04:31 PM
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thanks guys!
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Old Aug 8, 2005 | 05:51 PM
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how well does it fit? looks sharp.
can you make anymore?
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Yep, add some switches in that plate and I am sure you could turn a profit on here
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Old Aug 8, 2005 | 07:03 PM
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how well does it fit? looks sharp.
can you make anymore?

i haven't fit it yet. I think I am going to mount it to the ashtray, and cut off the bottom of the ashtray to run the wires through. (so i'm looking for a spare ashtray if anyone has one)


probably wont have it all wired up until december since i'm heading for school soon
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Old Aug 8, 2005 | 10:25 PM
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thats very clean, i like it. good work.
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Nice, very good idea.
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Old Aug 9, 2005 | 05:30 AM
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thanks guys!
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Old Aug 9, 2005 | 07:53 AM
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Back light that ****, maybe blue led's...that would look sick

I just re-read your first post... you mentioned lighting it with the ash tray light.


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Old Aug 9, 2005 | 12:58 PM
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Matt, glad to see your making use of your buddies CNC machine. Looks really good and will look awesome with a backlight. I would expect to have some people harrasing you for some of those.
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Old Aug 9, 2005 | 02:26 PM
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Matt, glad to see your making use of your buddies CNC machine. Looks really good and will look awesome with a backlight. I would expect to have some people harrasing you for some of those.
Thanks Andrew

The guy whose CNC I used at first said that he wouldn't be interested in small jobs like that. But when I told him what the other switch panels go for, he changed his mind!

Once I get it done and if I have enough people interested, I'll see if he can run off a couple more. Only took a couple minutes, and thats because we were running the machine slow so it wouldn't melt the plastic
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Ha, cnc a metal one, that'd be pimp too, even without the lights.
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Old Aug 9, 2005 | 08:45 PM
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yeah i could swap it out for metal, but i wanted the backlight option, so here i am!
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