Yeah! I've been collecting things from toy store closeouts and thrift
stores to be made into sci fi props and for test equipment enclosures.
Folding travel alarm clocks, handheld games (especially the ones that
fold up), clear plastic boxes that held perfume bottles, etc.
There are a lot of old modems around here right now. Good sturdy
aluminum cases, great to bolt power transistors to for heat sinking.
Seen some older rack mount 10baseT routers, picked one up for $1.00 at
a thrift store.
I see the 100meg Zip drives off and on in thrift stores, too.
Steve Greenfield
--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "wheedal99" <wheedal@h...> wrote:
> Thrift stores and dumpsters. Old modem enclosures can be nice. My
> favorites are old external drive cases; you used to be able to find
> lots of these when schools where dumping their old macintosh hardware.
> Anyway, there are a lot of "disposable" electronics out there that
> can be recycled for a project. My basement is full of this cra...
> er, RESOURCE.
>
> --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "greenseller" <Jay@F...> wrote:
> > Does anyone know of a good way to build/buy/scrounge/anything
> > enclosures for circuits? I've started making my own boards, but I
> > hate to spend a lot of money on those plastic boxes from radio
> shack.
> > Does anyone have any ideas for cheap enclosures?