that's a long email with a lot of questions. you'll have more luck getting answers to one concise question at a time.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, 9 Jun 2018, 12:28 , <<a href="mailto:sleepy_dog@gmx.de">sleepy_dog@gmx.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hey list.<br>
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I just looked at some pictures of Moog synths like Model D, and even <br>
more so, Voyager, again, and I must say I'm quite a fan of that kind of <br>
case design and the fact you can tilt the upper part up to your liking, <br>
and back in for less cumbersome transportation.<br>
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Ok, apart from that, more generally: The upper part - metal case for <br>
audio electronics, with front panel.<br>
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Is that steel, or aluminum, or more importantly, whatever it is - <br>
*could* you make that out of aluminum and it's be stable enough?<br>
Probably only depends on the thickness. But I have no experience with <br>
such things.<br>
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So, is 1.5mm, or even 1.2mm, thickness of aluminum something that could <br>
work decently for a case roughly Moog Voyager case sized? (I would be <br>
willing "cheat" with some reinforcement bars here and there if that's <br>
what it takes ;))<br>
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Why 1.5mm (1.2) alu? Because that's the max thickness (for alu) handled <br>
by the strongest of those manually operated sheet metal bending machines <br>
that are fixed with a sturdy vice or such, for longer lengths it's only <br>
1,2mm. You turn a lever, presumably while making bear-like noises... <br>
Well, those are floatnig around on ebay (here anyway) for 100...200 EUR, <br>
depending on the max material length and thickness.<br>
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There you read my assumption - that one could bend parts of such a case <br>
yourself. Perhaps not exactly like the Voyager - it looks like the upper <br>
"5/6th of a box" are one part, or at least bent around two axes - they <br>
would be in each others way if I tried that with such a contraption I <br>
guess. And then just a plate at the bottom.<br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku0BdjNasko&t=2m32s" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku0BdjNasko&t=2m32s</a><br>
But maybe one could bend two halves, one "grabs around" in vertical, the <br>
other in horizontal direction? Not only bending sides/front/back, but <br>
another slimmer rim, another 90 degrees, to drill holes into and fix the <br>
other part onto.<br>
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(if it's not displayed with monospace font at your end, too bad ;))<br>
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Anyway, if it turns out that 1.5mm aluminum* is far too thin for this, <br>
at least for that size, I may forget about DIYing here (for things of <br>
that size anyway), as I don't think I'd buy something much more <br>
expensive than said contraptions for this purpose.<br>
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* no harder than, I think it was called "6061". Because that's something <br>
I can actually route openings out of, with my weak China CNC router.<br>
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- Steve<br>
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