[ARC5] Potential Source of Enclosures

[AKLDGUY .]

In case anyone doesn't know what a 44 gallon drum is, it's the same oil
barrel that Americans refer to as a 55 gallon drum. Australia and New
Zealand and other Commonwealth countries used the Imperial measure of the
gallon.

Once common in backyards throughout New Zealand as incinerators for burning
rubbish, until councils introduced roadside pickup.

Neil ZL1ANM

On 16/02/2018 11:39 PM, "Leslie Smith" <vk2bcu at operamail.com> wrote:

>   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
> WB5WSV
>
>
>
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