@IDV : Thank you very much for your answers in detail.
First of all I want to wish you good luck with this project of yours.
@All :
But I am sorry to say this :
At its current state, Im not convinced to send my money into this.
Dont get me wrong again, I would really like to see this project come to live.
A very well made, milled, high tensile aluminium case at low weight would be a blast for the Pandora.
What I just dont want to see is a very poor made brick of Aluminium,
barely able to be carried around with, due to its dimensions and weight increasment.
A barely fitting PCB, Display, Displaycable and Keymat is the worst you can create here.
For my taste there are just too many unsolved variables left.
To sum it up :
No reworked / redesigned CAD-Models available yet.
No proper calculation of the production costs possible due to the lack of reworked CAD-Models.
No assurance of a functional working Al-Case at all.
WiFi = ?,
Bluetooth = ?,
Weight = ?,
Dimensions = ?,
Hinge = ?,
LCD-cablemanagment = ?,
PCB-fixation = ?,
Keymat-functionality = ?,
LED-functionality = ?,
How does it really look like in the end = ?,
(Any drilled holes left on the surface caused by clamping = ?)
and so on...
Im even not sure if that 9.000 / 12.000 rpm max (only) milling spindle provides you with enough circumferential speed
for the kind of tool-diameters you are going to require for our tiny little Pandora casings.
I do not expect a 1:1 copy, but there are several tricky corners around this current case-design which might be
required in aluminium redesign as well.
For me everything starts and falls with a fully functional prototype.
Everything else is far off the paths of engineering.