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When you can't find a box to mount your project in

Sidecar Bob

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Have you ever spent more time searching online for the right size box than you did building the project? This guy has the answer
 

kellys_eye

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Love it when people can make their own pro-looking housings. It's often very difficult to get the right look off-the-shelf. Most often I develop my projects in 'reverse' by determining what housing I have and then what might look good in it!

I saw a video of a chap using aluminium (not, NOT aluminum ) by using a circular saw with the depth of cut set so that the blade JUST skimmed the surface, leaving a channel that allowed him to bend the line perfectly instead of ending up with a rounded edge. Great technique for making chassis or boxes.
 

Sidecar Bob

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Pask has done that with steel. He has a video about the jig he made that lets him cut any size needed.
 

kellys_eye

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Pask has done that with steel. He has a video about the jig he made that lets him cut any size needed.
Might actually have been him! I can only recall the process, not the actual person who did it.
 

Sidecar Bob

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I'd like to figure out how to do it with plastic one day. If I can ever find a plastic supplier close enough that I can get to.....

I was really impressed at how well hammering the steel around the buck worked for him, though.
 

kellys_eye

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I was really impressed at how well hammering the steel around the buck worked for him, though.
Hmmm. I got the impression that the steel stretched at those rounded corners but he didn't show what he did to shrink it.
 

Sidecar Bob

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He mentioned hammering it back & forth and that it thickened as he did that.
 
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