I used the Makerspace's mill to drill holes in 1590a (tiny) cases last night. Using the mill + digital readout I can get accurate within a thousandth of an inch. I did a lot of measuring, math, and writing things down, so I have a repeatable process for getting the stomp switch and jacks to be packed into these little cases nearly touching, every time. I also found out that the amp-style jacks I ordered need a washer or something, because the 1590a case walls aren't thick enough to tighten down against. So that's why the jacks aren't in there tight in the pictures. I also need to figure out the math and drill the LED, single pot, and DC jack on the top, but those all take different sizes of drill bits, not mill bits, so I saved it for a different night.


Note that the pins are all level, (or will be when I have washers in place for the jacks) so I could build it all on a single PCB across the bottom of the case, if I wanted to. It'd just be mostly permanent in the case once soldered into the input/output jacks.


germy overdriving to commence? 




