aluminum plates and profiles

[Arthur Harrison]

My experience with the Bud 19" panel blanks is that they
are made of unbelievably soft, gummy alloy not at all great
for milling or drilling.
It seems they use the stuff convenient for them to stamp the
four or more mounting notches at the edges.

Then, they charge way too much for them.

Well, I suppose Bud isn't distributed in Australia, anyway.
When I need precut rack panels, I order them cut to size from Baltimore
(USA).
That way, I know precisely what alloy I am getting.  The mounting notches
are easy to mill as needed.

-Art


-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Perry <pfperry at melbpc.org.au>
To: synth-diy at mailhost.bpa.nl <synth-diy at mailhost.bpa.nl>
Date: Wednesday, December 09, 1998 12:38 AM
Subject: Re: aluminum plates and profiles


>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
>