Converting BB Switch Panel to Rocker Switches: Fabrication Tips Needed

[Wuzabus]

Hey everyone out there in skoolie land! I hope all builds are going as well as planned and everyone is doing well. I need y'all's help with a fabrication project for Wuzabus. I want to keep my BB switch panel but I want rocker switches instead of the push/ pull ones. I have already converted my lights, fans, light bar, strobe etc. to rocker switches from push pull.... this is where I need y'all's help fam... Please don't judge my drawing but ...I tried...left side of course is what it looks like.. right side is what I need fabricated to look like with rocker switch cut outs..if it can be done. We have some REAL TALENTED PPL out here. Help me out!

 

[nikitis]

Your best bet is to take it out, size it up, draw it up in CAD like on tinkercad.com, get it accurate to size, then add the square holes, and download the .STL file it will give you when you pull the new design, and hand it off to a CNC guy to cut it out of sheet metal for you.

If you can give me a paper sheet like you did in the pic above with exacting dimensions of all lengths of every side, including the length of top to bottom, and side to side at the longest and widest part, I'll make you a .STL file you can send to a metal fab shop to cut you out the plate.

Also if you have the length of a rocker switch hole they need to be would be helpful too.

 

[Mr. Beefy]

We will be doing something really similar sometime in the future, though all our switches are already rockers... I just want to pretty up the panels using wood. To that end I've done a bit of thinking on the matter. I was originally planning to cut an individual hole for each in 1/8 to 1/4" ply - kind of like what you have pictured. But I found the rockers were made for sheet metal, so they wouldn't accomodate the thickness of the wood. And even if they did - unless you had a means of making precision-dimensioned holes (CNC, laser, etc), I couldn't figure out a way that wouldn't inevitably cause a little slop in fitment (which would drive me nuts). What I've decided to do - when I do it - is use pre-manufactured sheet-metal rocker-switch panels to mount the rockers in, and mount those panels to my wood... well... panels.

 

[Wuzabus]

Your best bet is to take it out, size it up, draw it up in CAD like on tinkercad.com, get it accurate to size, then add the square holes, and download the .STL file it will give you when you pull the new design, and hand it off to a CNC guy to cut it out of sheet metal for you.

If you can give me a paper sheet like you did in the pic above with exacting dimensions of all lengths of every side, including the length of top to bottom, and side to side at the longest and widest part, I'll make you a .STL file you can send to a metal fab shop to cut you out the plate.

Also if you have the length of a rocker switch hole they need to be would be helpful too2

We will be doing something really similar sometime in the future, though all our switches are already rockers... I just want to pretty up the panels using wood. To that end I've done a bit of thinking on the matter. I was originally planning to cut an individual hole for each in 1/8 to 1/4" ply - kind of like what you have pictured. But I found the rockers were made for sheet metal, so they wouldn't accomodate the thickness of the wood. And even if they did - unless you had a means of making precision-dimensioned holes (CNC, laser, etc), I couldn't figure out a way that wouldn't inevitably cause a little slop in fitment (which would drive me nuts). What I've decided to do - when I do it - is use pre-manufactured sheet-metal rocker-switch panels to mount the rockers in, and mount those panels to my wood... well... panels.

Your best bet is to take it out, size it up, draw it up in CAD like on tinkercad.com, get it accurate to size, then add the square holes, and download the .STL file it will give you when you pull the new design, and hand it off to a CNC guy to cut it out of sheet metal for you.

If you can give me a paper sheet like you did in the pic above with exacting dimensions of all lengths of every side, including the length of top to bottom, and side to side at the longest and widest part, I'll make you a .STL file you can send to a metal fab shop to cut you out the plate.

Also if you have the length of a rocker switch hole they need to be would be helpful too.

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