[sdiy] source of useful chassis

[Michael Ruberto]

Skot,

this place frequently gets some decent racks also. I replaced my old crappy 
one with a huge monster of a rack from this place and it cost me $5. I will 
keep this in mind and let you know next time I see a worthwhile rack. the 
chassis' I saw today are definately the 12" deep model. I will start 
bringing my little measuring tape to that store in the future ;-)

~M






>From: male man <flanger_man at yahoo.com>
>To: Michael Ruberto <frankentron at hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [sdiy] source of useful chassis
>Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 21:03:53 -0700 (PDT)
>
>i think i would be interested in a cool chasis.  now
>if i could only find a good affordable(to a college
>student) rack mount case for hauling this gear to play
>out.  oh well, still looks quite tempting :)
>
>thanks for your time
>skot
>
>p.s. how deep are they?
>
>
>
>
>--- Michael Ruberto <frankentron at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > hi all,
> >
> > I am quite blessed to be living almost next door to
> > the salvage store for a
> > giant university. every so often the various
> > engineering depts. there
> > offload alot of very interesting used electronic
> > equipment. some of it is
> > quite usefull as is if it's test equipment. but alot
> > of it is custom made
> > lab equipment used for some unknown purpose but is
> > housed in very nice
> > expensive well made chassis'. I now have collected
> > some of the MOST killer
> > future-synth chassis' I could dream of. I am quite
> > set for the next several
> > synth projects I build. however I see really good
> > stuff there every week and
> > was wondering if you peeps would appreciate it if I
> > brought some of these
> > gems to your attention every week or 2.
> >
> > today I saw 5 3U modular euro-rack chassis' housing
> > what appears to be some
> > computer networking stuff. I went and priced this
> > chassis in Digikey's
> > catalog and they go for over $160 new. these are
> > good clean units and
> > perfect for a modular system once you remove the
> > proprietary backplane and
> > remove the networking modules. I can buy them for $5
> > a piece anybody want
> > em? tomorrow and friday are the days the store is
> > open to the general public
> > so let me know. I might just buy them anyway and
> > post some pics...
> >
> > ~M
> >
> >
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