Very nice case man! I love the vinyl covering and the handles. Boy I wish I
woulda... Just kidding, my home brew case is good for my format of setup and
the use of my Roland M-181 keyboard. I will try to find a disk of pics here,
back in a minute or so
Thomas White
>From: "J. Larry Hendry" <jlarryh@...>
>Reply-To: motm@yahoogroups.com
>To: <motm@yahoogroups.com>
>Subject: Re: [motm] MOTM filled case pic, & more spacer info
>Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 17:20:50 -0600
>
>Than is one sharp looking and functional cabinet. Trouble is, I think you
>will need 2 or 3. :)
>Larry H
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: elhardt@...
> To: motm@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 3:41 PM
> Subject: [motm] MOTM filled case pic, & more spacer info
>
>
> 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
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