[ARC5] Control Box Mounts

[Michael Tauson]

On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 12:44 AM, Mike Hanz <aaf-radio-1 at aafradio.org> wrote:
> Steve KB4DMF was making these for a while, but I'm not sure he is still
> in the business.


Isn't he the gentleman who was also making shock mounts?  Last I saw,
that was all he was making.

> manual.  The only thing missing are the dimensions of the folded over
> portion, with the milled cutouts along the top, but those and the
> location of the snap slide stud can be inferred from an actual control box.

When I made 1:1 scale drawings using proportional dividers, I was able
to dimension these fairly closely from the original drawings.  I can't
say they were perfect but it did work and appeared correct.  One thing
I did was to anneal the aluminum first (I'll be darned if I can
remember what type I used but it wasn't 5052 nor was it anything like
2S.  2024?) to make the fold easier.  When I compared mine to a "real"
set of mounts, I found my fold wasn't quite as it should have been but
it did work.

Those drawings got left behind when I moved here and I have to make a
new set.  Darn it.  But then I left my metal shop behind too and
that's slowly getting rebuilt now.

Best regards,

Michael, WH7HG
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