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Subject: [motm] MOTM filled case pic
From: elhardt@...
Date: 2001-02-25
I finally got one of my final cases filled with MOTM modules. There is a
preliminary picture at the following url:
http://members.aol.com/elhardt/images/case3.jpg
Module separaters:
(1) I finally ended up using 3/32" width tape made by Carl Goldberg Models,
Inc. They have different widths but 3/32" is perfect. It is normally used
for gliders and remote control airplanes and is a kind of rubbery and
stretchy compared to that charting tape found in office supply stores.
(2) For those of you who are still thinking of using Plastruct, I finally
found the H-beams that match the size of the wooden ones I bought, 3/16".
They were in white in this store as opposed to dark grey like in the other
store. The problem is that channels are tapered, so they can't be pressed
all of the way down on the module edge, thus pushing the modules even further
apart than the "bass wood" beams I had previously bought. Perhaps this is
not important to those with wooden rails anyway, but it just means that any
rows of modules that contain different numbers of 1U modules from each other
with get skewed with the other rows to a more exaggerated extreme (the reason
I dropped the wood or plastic spacer idea in the first place). Perhaps
grinding out the channels with a Dremel would help. Going to the next bigger
Plastruct size will probably be too loose.
-Elhardt