Please help!
I'm considering building a UcD700AD and I'm really useless with metal working so I need an off the shelf one that looks reasonable. I'm in the UK so anything from Europe would be economical on postage but maybe shipping from the US would be a little expensive.
I've seen plenty of pictures on here with excellent looking chassis but can I heck as like find any suppliers.
I rather like the look of those 2U cases with the Alu fronts in this pic:
Thanks for any suggestions.
I'm considering building a UcD700AD and I'm really useless with metal working so I need an off the shelf one that looks reasonable. I'm in the UK so anything from Europe would be economical on postage but maybe shipping from the US would be a little expensive.
I've seen plenty of pictures on here with excellent looking chassis but can I heck as like find any suppliers.
I rather like the look of those 2U cases with the Alu fronts in this pic:
An externally hosted image should be here but it was not working when we last tested it.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Hi all,
I too am in the U.K and i need a source for cheap good looking 2U enclosures. The only ones i can find are at Maplins, but i fail to see how they warrent charging £35 for an empty case. I could buy a cheap peice of equipment for that and throw away the stuff inside to leave me with an empty case but that would be wastful.
If anyone knows of a manufacturer in the U.K please do post.
Regards
Mad.P
I too am in the U.K and i need a source for cheap good looking 2U enclosures. The only ones i can find are at Maplins, but i fail to see how they warrent charging £35 for an empty case. I could buy a cheap peice of equipment for that and throw away the stuff inside to leave me with an empty case but that would be wastful.
If anyone knows of a manufacturer in the U.K please do post.
Regards
Mad.P
Nitrate,
Cheap and good looking are two things that usually cancel out, just take a look at all the Taiwanese made PC enclosures, prime example of the above.
Best regards,
Sander Sassen
http://www.hardwareanalysis.com
Cheap and good looking are two things that usually cancel out, just take a look at all the Taiwanese made PC enclosures, prime example of the above.
Best regards,
Sander Sassen
http://www.hardwareanalysis.com
You could always buy an old amp, tape or tuner. Salvage the innards and fit a new wooden panel on the front. Secondhand shops often have a few dead components lying around and are happy to get a couple of pounds for them. You might even get a decent knob.
The cases from hifi2000 are available here: www.audiokit.it (under "cabinet/chassis")
The ones shown are the galaxy-series (the GX388 most likely). Beware that the top and bottom panels are steel, not aluminium and therefore not especially easy to work with.
/U.
PS: I've been eyeing the ATI-cases for some time, but unfortunately the postage costs are quite high 🙁
The ones shown are the galaxy-series (the GX388 most likely). Beware that the top and bottom panels are steel, not aluminium and therefore not especially easy to work with.
/U.
PS: I've been eyeing the ATI-cases for some time, but unfortunately the postage costs are quite high 🙁
For those in Europe!
A Dutch company called Speaker World carries the line of ATI housings.
Browse there online shop.
http://www.speakerworld.nl/
Regards
A Dutch company called Speaker World carries the line of ATI housings.
Browse there online shop.
http://www.speakerworld.nl/
Regards
If you like the ones in your picture, why not go for standard 19" rack cases, and slice of the 'ears'?
A big thanks to all who've posted links.
I've get plenty to choose from now and I like the look of the hifi2000 ones personally.
I've get plenty to choose from now and I like the look of the hifi2000 ones personally.
In a few weeks (hopefully) there will something quite special for housing smaller amps/DACs/etc. I don't know how big the UCD modules are but they should fit. Keep an eye out on DD for more news as to their availablilty.
I'm not the one supplying them but I have been involved in the design and have seen some samples. We are talking 'class' here rather than just an enclosure! 😉
I'm not the one supplying them but I have been involved in the design and have seen some samples. We are talking 'class' here rather than just an enclosure! 😉
Nuuk,
Can't wait that long I'm afraid my friend. Unless you can provide me a very good excuse to hold off - maybe a picture or two? 😀
Email me them if you like: zeroex_15 (at) hotmail (dt) com
Can't wait that long I'm afraid my friend. Unless you can provide me a very good excuse to hold off - maybe a picture or two? 😀
Email me them if you like: zeroex_15 (at) hotmail (dt) com
No pictures as yet Mr Impatient! 😀 They are waiting on one external part and the finishing of the main casing.
So you'll just have to settle for one of those boring rectangular things!
So you'll just have to settle for one of those boring rectangular things!
Nuuk said:So you'll just have to settle for one of those boring rectangular things!
Its rectangular but not as boring as it could have been:
An externally hosted image should be here but it was not working when we last tested it.
I like the 'tank' type amp enclosures and it sounds like yours is more 'compact'?
I probably wouldn't be able to fit what I need in there, though I'm not quite sure how small your case really is.
Thanks anyway.
perm?
This topic, who to use for PCB fab, what PCB software to use, and certain others I can think of come up so often that I wish there were perminent threads for this. Just me.
This topic, who to use for PCB fab, what PCB software to use, and certain others I can think of come up so often that I wish there were perminent threads for this. Just me.
Re: perm?
Maybe a sticky is called for listing such suppliers and manufacturers?
This would save the average user a hell of a lot of leg work with the less than brilliant search function ie. type in enclosure and you get 100's of hits but very little useful information.
lgreen said:
Maybe a sticky is called for listing such suppliers and manufacturers?
This would save the average user a hell of a lot of leg work with the less than brilliant search function ie. type in enclosure and you get 100's of hits but very little useful information.
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