The next step is to mount the electronic mounts on the top of the instrument. This is simple enough of a process of placing them where you want them and then using an awl or a long nail to mark where you will drill the holes at. Once complete use the brass screws and nuts to hold it in place and verify the fit..
The next step is to drill the bottom out of the stock you are using for the laser emitters and make a channel for the wires to pass. Using a drill press is best to prevent any personal injury.
At the same time we are drilling the holes out for the wires we will also be drilling the holes out for the lasers to mount to. The brass shell of our lasers was about 3/8ths in dia and when we drilled our holes they were quite snug.
Next we insert our laser modules into the holes we cut. The front half of the laser diode we used was free spinning for the focus of the beam. We simply had to make sure not to push them too far into the hole so that we couldn’t turn them.
Here is another view of the block with the lasers mounted for reference.
And here we have the finally mounted laser emitter block on the project. It’s actually looking really nice at this point.
