<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Jeremy, <div><br></div><div>Thanks for posting the photos of your gorgeous Hermes finished product. After seeing the photos of yours I immediately ordered one too. Nice! </div><div><br></div><div>This evening I took the advice posted earlier about using a common radial arm saw to cut the case down a bit. I put a new carbide blade on the radial arm saw and simply sawed about 0.082" off the end of the case and covers so that I can use the black plastic bevels on mine with the Hermes board. Worked great! Cuts smooth, looks great, no problems. </div><div><br></div><div>Since Hermes was working fine sitting open on my desk I doubt that the plastic pieces on the case will cause any problems whatsoever but if I discover that they do I'll post something to that effect. The Hermes housing with the plastic pieces in place matches the Antec enclosure that I use for the Atlas-based HPSDR setup very well, so I just couldn't leave them off. </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks again for the heads up!</div><div><br></div><div>73, Joe K5SO</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Jeremy McDermond <<a href="mailto:mcdermj@xenotropic.com">mcdermj@xenotropic.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Re: [hpsdr] Hermes check out</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">April 5, 2012 4:42:16 PM MDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a href="mailto:phil@pharman.org">phil@pharman.org</a><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Cc: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">HPSDR HPSDR <<a href="mailto:hpsdr@lists.openhpsdr.org">hpsdr@lists.openhpsdr.org</a>><br></span></div><br><div>***** High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List *****<br><br>I have some notes after getting to the mechanical parts of Hermes after the MicroHams conference in Seattle.<br><br>I ordered a Hammond extruded enclosure from Digikey because I didn't want things getting damaged around my shack. Sometimes things are rather perilous. I ordered Hammond part number 1455Q1601, DigiKey part number HM1171-ND. <br><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>