PLAN B analog blog

It's made from 3/4 inch MDF - this is the high-density compressed wood used
for a lot of speaker cabinets.  It'll run you $35 or so an 4 x 8 sheet.

I did a rendering of the shape of the side plate in
Freehand/Illustrator in scale.  I had the lumber yard cut out the
sides as a rectangle, then print out the arch (which in this instance
fit on a tablet 17 x 11 piece of paper) and glued it to the corner of
the one of the wood sides with rubber cement.  Used a hand-held
electric jig saw to cut away the arch using the printed line as a
guide, then used that cut-out side for the trace template for the
other end plate. One both are cut I clamped the two ends together and
sanded the face of the arch on both together until they were smooth
and uniform.

Using two sets of right-angle bracket clamps and wood cement I glued
the cabinet together, then routed the edges with a bull-nose bit and
sent it to the paint shop.  It tok me about two hours form start to
finish to make the cabinet.

Once back from painting, I bolted in the Vector rails to mount the
modules to then cut the back plate to size, mounted that to the back
using two pieces of 3.7 inch aluminum angle iron, cut out/filed the
clearance patterns for the fuse, IEC connector and power switch anf
the two 1/4 jacks for the rear outputs, mounted the PSU's inside and
used two Model 1's as the dist. strips and bang - it was completed. 

I used Molex connectors for all the primary cabling so that the rear
panel can be completely removed for rear access if required.

If you have the tools, the complete chassis will cost you about $250
all things considered (painting was a bit more than I wished, but the
shop which was going to do it wanted surprised me at the very end with
a two week turnaround when they usually do it overnight,...and I had
exactly three days in which to do it! I had to hunt around for a
facility who could spray wood (nobody likes to do this. it's pain in
the butt as it requires a lot of paint).

hope this helps

- P



--- In PLAN_B_analog_blog@yahoogroups.com, "(i think you can figure
that out)" <peter@...> wrote:
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> I did!
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> --- In PLAN_B_analog_blog@yahoogroups.com, "drexciyaecho"
> <drexciyaecho@> wrote:
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> > Nice system and agree that the case is great.  That's the type cabinet
> > I'm looking for , except with the addition of another row on the top.
> >  Any info for us on who made the case Peter?
> >
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