AC power on front panels

All: I'm playing around with my relatively new IMSAI and I was pondering the following. The unit is constructed with the front panel power switch unconnected and the corresponding terminals on the power supply board jumpered together. There is a mains switch on the rear panel which takes the place of the front panel switch. While for safety reasons I cannot disagree with the approach - it's plain stupid to put uninsulated mains voltage in a low-voltage area (and unpassable by UL evaluators I'm sure) - it detracts a bit from its use because you have to reach behind the unit to turn it on. Has anyone come up with an elegant solution to being able to use the front panel power switch while keeping it safe? I was toying with some sort of low-voltage circuit (small LV transformer and relay, with the front panel switch in the loop on the coil side). Another idea I had was to hot glue a dielectric insulator board (that gray cardboard kind of stuff) over the parts of the front panel that would be exposed. Ideas? Too much time on my hands? Rich Rich Cini Collector of classic computers Build Master for the Altair32 Emulation Project Web site: <http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/> http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/ /************************************************************/