OK, so this is my own SP-10 mk3. I didn’t have a lid for the plinth so had one made locally, it’s a light brown smoke, made of real Perspex.
As usual it would not stay up and I agonised over the various hinge modifications. I dismissed tapping out to M5 or a rivnut/captive-nut solution as both meant removing material and potentially making it weaker. So a good friend made two 3mm thick reinforcement squares. The existing M4 thread was kept and the thread on the addition pieces was tapped deliberately at the same wrong angle as the existing distorted thread, giving far more material and thread. Now this lid and a customers original one stay open really well.
The EPA-500 and EPA-A501 G shown here will be available when I finish the FR-64s rebuild.
As usual it would not stay up and I agonised over the various hinge modifications. I dismissed tapping out to M5 or a rivnut/captive-nut solution as both meant removing material and potentially making it weaker. So a good friend made two 3mm thick reinforcement squares. The existing M4 thread was kept and the thread on the addition pieces was tapped deliberately at the same wrong angle as the existing distorted thread, giving far more material and thread. Now this lid and a customers original one stay open really well.
The EPA-500 and EPA-A501 G shown here will be available when I finish the FR-64s rebuild.
