[ARC5] Potential Source of Enclosures

[Leslie Smith]

  Hello Wayne,

  Yes, but you can do even better if you visit your local aluminum
  supplier (that is home-building aluminum supplier) and their shop has
  a 44 gallon scrap barrel.  A short length of 125 x 50mm channel (or 5
  x 2 inch) will do the job you describe and if you put two length back
  to back you can run a strip along the side (in the same fashion as you
  see in the 'command' receivers.  I tap the aluminum channel to take a
  3mm thread and this makes a professional-looking, solid, easily
  assembled/disassembled box.
As you say, keep scrap building aluminum in mind.

   73 de Les Smith
   vk2bcu at operamail.com



On Fri, Feb 16, 2018, at 12:31, Robert  Eleazer wrote:
> Hurricane Irma blew away my back porch/screen room and I'm finally
> getting it replaced.  Looking at some of the scrap I note that the
> structural supports are made out of 2 inch by 2 inch aluminum box
> extrusions.  The scraps look like they might make good enclosures for
> homebuilt electronic gear.  Admittedly, you'd have to put the
> components inside from the ends, but there are grooves inside  that
> could hold circuit boards as well as provide a way to attach end
> covers. And of course they are painted and designed for outside use.>  
> So keep such porch scrap in mind.
> 
> 
> Wayne
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