MOTM

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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