aluminum plates and profiles

[Dave Halliday]

I noticed the .edu address - you might want to check your school's 
physics or science departments - frequently they will have an
in-house machine shop and would have a large sheet-metal shear.

Check for local commercial metal vendors - they will want to sell you 
sheets a couple feet by a couple tens of feet but since they also cut 
to size, they may well have a pile of shorts that you can paw through 
and buy for a buck or two a pound.  Take these to the physics metal 
shop and have them cut them for you.  Offer to trade something fun - a 
CD of your music or a simple synth circuit or couple pints or...



>     From: Andrew Schrock <aschrock at cs.brandeis.edu>
>     To: synth-diy at mailhost.bpa.nl
>     Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 18:55:59 -0500 (EST)
>     Subject: Re: aluminum plates and profiles
>      
>     Which leads nicely into my question.. where can I get large pieces of 
>     19" aluminum suitable for panel mounting? Would need to be fairly 
>     sturdy, since I don't like my panels to flex at all when I 
>     insert/remove jacks. I would prefer to be able to purchase them in 1U 
>     width increments. I'm definitely looking to do this on the cheap, so 
>     any info is welcome. I realize this is probably a FAQ, but I couldn't 
>     find info on it anywhere. 
>     Thanks, 
>     Andrew
>      


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