Questions on REALLY building your own Doepfer A-100

[Brett Duggan]

Hello guys,

I was looking into building up a Doepfer A-100 system.  However, I have 
noticed that Doepfer is charging quite a bit for the 3U rack-mount case 
that they sell that comes with the power supply already installed.

According to Doepfer, they bought these cases from a company in Germany 
named Isel.  I was wondering if any of you have checked to see how much 
it would cost to buy this case direct from Isel?  If the cost difference 
was large enough, I would have no problems with buying both case and 
power supply separately and then putting them together myself.  I am in 
the US and have never purchased anything from a European location, so as 
far as I know the shipping cost could be astronomical.

Also, I was wondering if anyone knows of any Net-based detailed pictures 
of a Doepfer A-100 case without any modules installed?  I would really 
like to see where they place the power supply in the case and how exactly 
the bus board is installed.  It looks like even if you buy the case with 
power supply installed from Doepfer, you still have to install the bus 
board yourself, and I am curious to see how this is supposed to be done.

Thanks very much for any information!
Brett D