[GPS_Standard] enclosure for GPS Freq Standard (VE2ZAZ model)

[Chris Howard]

Mine is going into a 2U high rack mount box that used
to be some kind of temperature controller for a Kodak something
or other.

I bought the box at the local university's surplus store a few years ago.


Chris Howard


On 1/19/2011 12:45 PM, Dave Platt wrote:
> John Shadle wrote:
>> I was just wondering what folks have used for an enclosure for this
>> project. Finally getting around to building it.
>>
>> Parts numbers from Digikey or Mouser would be helpful.
> I didn't buy a new cabinet for mine.  Instead, I used my
> usual approach for projects like this - I went down to
> our local surplus-electronics-and-junk barn (Weird Stuff
> Warehouse in Sunnyvale) and looked around for a piece
> of obsolete electronics gear which had a case of the
> right size and shape for what I wanted to put into it.
>
> In the past I've found old serial- and parallel-port
> switchboxes to be good for things of this sort.  This
> time around, I found a box which held an old-style
> frequency-hopping wireless access point / controller.
> Bought it, gutted it, drilled a few new holes, made a
> new front label for it, and it worked just fine.
>
> Old, obsolete electronic devices with good solid cases
> can often be had for $5 or so at stores like this,
> thrift stores / charity shops, garage sales, flea
> markets, and so forth.  An equivalent-size new sheet
> metal box of equal quality (blank and unused) is going
> to cost several times that much.
>
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