[sdiy] Aluminum rack chassis.

[James Patchell]

I buy sheets of aluminum...the stuff is not cheap...a blank panel that is 
14 x 17 inches x 0.125 is about $50...

I wish there was a company out there that was like Front Panel Express 
except they would do the metal punching and bending to make chassis pieces 
at a reasonable price...so far...I don't know of any place like that... :-(

At 10:26 PM 8/24/2005 -0400, you wrote:
>Looking through mouser has my eyebrows raised.  I can't believe 4
>sheets of aluminum can cost 70$ and up...  Am I missing something
>here?  Is there a source of plain rack-sized aluminim chassis' out
>there?  I don't even need the front panel as I'll be having these made
>professionaly..  Seems I have no choice there tho.  Anybody know what
>the "Internal Chassis" from Bud is?  and do their Rack mount chassis
>really have no bottom panel? (WTF?)

         -Jim
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