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

[Bob Bownes]

Mine went into an old 2U router enclosure, also rack mountable. Decent
enclosure, lot's of room, plenty of back panels that can be drilled
for BNCs, SMAs, or whatever. And it came with a nice little power
supply.

As someone said, these things can be had for a few $ at local salvage
houses if you are lucky enough to have one about. Alternately, look on
ebay for equipment within a few miles of your zip code. Often it goes
for a few $ because no one is willing to pay to have it shipped. I got
a great 3U case this week for $1 that just happens to have a cool
hardware FFT in it. :)

Bob


On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Chris Howard <w0ep at w0ep.us> wrote:
>
> 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.