[AMRadio] chassis and resistors

[Bernie Doran]

There is no problem finding  low and high resistance values suitable for 
bleeder and what ever. 50 to 100s of watt rated. all you have to do is a 
simple search, Newark has them by the hundreds!!! so what is the big deal? 
a chassis  may be a little more difficult but as I said earlier call the 
local sheet metal shop, do not ask for a chassis ask for a pan, not a 
panel, ask for sheared flat plate. How is that too difficult to do?  If that 
is too difficult go to the lumber yard and buy a sheet of 5 core 3/4 plywood 
and some 2x4s and make the thing, cover it with Aluminum flashing or Copper 
flashing and it will hold anything you can put on it. and all at one stop, 
the lumber yard.  It seem to me that a lot of people on here just want to 
whine!!   The best part of making your own chassis and panels  is that no 
longer do you have to be concerned with 17 inch and 19 inch widths.  Ever 
try to put a pair of 4-1000s  on a 17 inch chassis?   Use your imagination, 
can not find perf aluminum sheet, use hardware cloth,  need some soft 
washers for under ceramic insulators, cut them out of the dead CDs you have 
laying around all over the desk.  Lexan makes excellent coil forms and 
insulators and is readily available in all sizes and shapes, and on and on, 
we are a long way from having to make our own vacuum tubes.   The next thing 
someone will say is they are expensive, sorry, but I do not have the time to 
spare looking at junk and shopping for the big steal.   Plus the prices on 
most stuff is less in real dollars than it was in the 60s and 70s.  Bernie 
W8RPW