DropLit Assembly Guide
2 – Visual Bill of Materials
Your DropLit kit should contain a wrapped pack of Melamine parts, three bags of parts (two
bags of hardware, one bag of electronic parts) a short section of aluminum extrusion and a power
supply.
The Melamine parts are covered with a special cutting mask that prevents the laser cutting
operation from depositing laser cutting byproducts on the Melamine surface. You'll need to remove all
of this material before beginning construction.
This process is called the Five Stages of Masking Tape.
1. Denial - Oh there's no way I need to scrape all this tape off those parts? Do I?
2. Anger - @#$%@#! This sucks! I've NEVER SEEN SO MUCH TAPE IN
ONE PLACE IN MY LIFE!
3. Bargaining - “Well hi there, Significant Other! Would you PLEASE remove
all this tape for me? PLEASE?”
4. Depression - This tape hates me. *sobs quietly*
5. Acceptance - Well I suppose if I'm ever going to get this thing built, I'd better
get on with it and get all this tape removed...*sigh*
Ok, it's not THAT bad, it just seems like it. It beats having sticky residue all over your nice and
clean Melamine parts. :)
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Fig. 2-1: DropLit package contents.