aluminum plates and profiles

[Paul Perry]

At 10:58 PM 8/12/98 -0500, Andrew Schrock  wrote:

>what I can get. I've tried midwest analog products 19" panels, but they're
>pretty soft, not so cheap, and bend with jack insertion. 

What you want, for rigidity, is not a flat piece but a "U" section.
The only difficult thing abt panels, is doing a standard rack mount hole..
but, you can always drill and file.
Any small sheet metal assembly shop can guillotine & bend easily and
cheaply. My one-offs are done by a place specialising in oven hoods.
You will get a cheap price at a one or 2 person shop. Not everyoune is 
interested in doing this work.
I got a rackmount irregular quadrilateral cross section steel box for $US 60.
You take it out of the rack, and it sits on the table with a sloping front
like a block of Tobler-1. Nothing like it in the catalogs!

paul perry melbourne australia