Gainclone chassis

[troystg]

Hi All-

I have finished my GC and love it.

As I mentioned before I needed 3 chassis for projects but my machinist said 3 or 30, the only thing that changes is material cost and Aluminum is not that expensive. So I had 11 built. 3 for my projects, which left 8 to anyone who needed a chassis.

Well I offered BrianGT some first since I used his boards and he bought 2, so I have 6 left.

If any one is interested, then please post it here! They will go in the order of request to this thread. Sorry but only have a total of 6 and this is the only fair way.

The only thing I MUST mention in advance is that the heat sinks are recycled. All parts are new/machined with the EXCEPTION of the heat sinks. The heat sinks were donated by Steve @ Apex.jr for us GC’ers.

Dynamat and circuit parts NOT included. Only case and screws.


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This is the email I sent BrianGT regarding these chassis:

As I mentioned before, I needed 3 chassis (this and other projects) and had 11 made. I will be selling 8 chassis for "slightly" more than cost and donating 100% of the profit to the forum because without the forum, none of this would be possible.

Since I used your boards and you have helped out TREMENDOUSLY, I will sell you 1-2 of the chassis first if your still interested.

My costs were:

1. Chassis material and machining: $70 ea.
2. Chassis coating/finish: $7.50 ea.
3. Chassis fasteners/screws: $9.25 ea.
TOTAL $86.75 ea

I hope to sell them on-line for $90 ea + shipping and I will donate an even 5 dollars for each chassis sold to the forum. Not much to the forum, I know, but I hope to do it again for the Bridge clones too.




I will see if Brian can host the pictures for those interested.

Thanks everyone in advance,

Troy

[troystg]

Second picture:

Thanks,

Troy

[troystg]

Third picture:

Thanks,

Troy

[wytco0]

rabstq, any idea what the postage would be to the UK?

If its not to much I will take one please.

What sort of payment can you accept?

[troystg]

Hi wytco0-

I have NO idea what the shipping would be off hand.

Please send me your address in an email and I will look it up and reply back.

I can ship them assembled or in the pieces but the weight would be the same, only size changing. I don't know if that will make a significant difference on the cost of shipping though.

Thanks for asking,

Troy

Edit: Oh yeah, I have a paypal account and ALWAYS accept cash .

[Mattyo5]

How about scaling something like that up to say an Aleph 2 monoblock size.... it'd be big. Heatsinks would probably be the limiting factor. Gotta find some that are huge and readily available. If you get a $$, i'm sure people would be interested. Of course, a chassis for a bridgeclone monoblock would be a nice idea as well Thanks

-Matthew K. Olson

[Killjoy99]

I am interested in one. Can you post the cost of shipping to 97201 and I’ll let you know. Thanks

Brian

[troystg]

Hey Kiljoy-

UPS Ground
Guaranteed by: By End of Day
Friday September 17, 2004
Billable Weight: 5.0 lbs.
$10.10 4 days

Hey Matthew-

You give me dimensions, my machinist can make it. I can then have a finish put on at the plating shop. Bead blasted and clear hard Anodized is my favorite, but they can do black, combinations, polishes, you name it.

Would you want a "rack/shelf" style case? I would do a tower for a class A amp or any big amp for that matter. I LOVE the ML #33H amps. If I were to do something big it would resemble them.


Well, peace out my brothers(and sisters if any read this),

Troy

[Mattyo5]

Yeah, like the 33H's or even just 33's the H i think stands for half size, the 33's are the full reference size. I may have no clue what i'm talking about. Right now i'm building aleph 2 monoblocks ...i have the aluminum and heatsinks. Total cost per chassis for heatsinks and aluminum alone was $140 worth of aluminum. The heatsinks came in at $1.50 per lb or so, and 40 lbs worth hehe. The other aluminum was a little pricier b/c I had it cut. But now I gotta drill and tap the whole thing... hours and hours of work. We're probably talking about a chassis that its 20" tall and 15-16" deep (big sinks ...could be smaller if sinks had a taller fin height...i'm assuming 1" fin height). The panels don't have to be anything spectacular, but a 1/4" front panel would be nice, probably 1/8" for the rest. ... probably not rack mount, so 12" wide or so would probably do. As long as there is about 9-10" of width for easy toroidal placement. Bigger sinks is better in this case, the higher the fin height, the smaller the sinks can be to dissipate the same amt of heat. Basically each chassis needs to dissipate 300 watts of heat passively, w/ 25degC-30degC rise above ambient. (anyone else jump in here if I screw up on my #'s). Even at $250 per chassis, would probably be worth it, though cheaper is better Especially if it looked like the Levinson hehe anyway, it'd just be nice to have a quote, and whats nicer, is the dimensions can be played w/ without too much adjustment, like the levinson, sinks 1/2" height etc. could make some sweet chassis for sure. its just an idea

-Matthew K. Olson

[tg3]

Could you post dimensions please?