[hpsdr] Pand-oragami-Lego-mania

[Eric Ellison]

Paul

Yes, this looks like a very nice quality enclosure, to do what many people
would want to do. I could not get a 'close-up' shot of the enclosure, but it
looks like it is a clamshell top which would make it ideal for
troubleshooting or working on the internals, and routing wires fore and aft.
Front and back are the same.  The face also looks to have 4 screw mounts. It
should be large enough to mount a power supply. Does anyone have the
drawings for this enclosure?

It would be immaterial if Pandora's face were 9". It would allow folks using
custom enclosures such as computer cases to hack off as much as they needed
to make it fit the application, if needed. Only one cut if the slots were
right or left justified. Also the surplus face space could be drilled to
handle switches, leds, 12 V power, fuses etc.

Coming full turn, on this discussion, TenTec also has custom machining and
could probably ship the case with Pandora's pretty face installed, or
included. We could buy and stock extra faceplates for the faceplate only
crowd. The whole enclosure looks like it would retail for under $50 dollars.
With a 'group buy' we could probably get that price down, and the face
plates might become free or trivial cost.

I also think that TenTec has a European distribution.

Good Find
Thanks
Eric







-----Original Message-----
From: hpsdr-bounces at hpsdr.org [mailto:hpsdr-bounces at hpsdr.org] On Behalf Of
Paul Fletcher
Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2007 4:37 AM
To: hpsdr at hpsdr.org
Subject: Re: [hpsdr] Pand-oragami-Lego-mania

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<snip>
Let me throw out an idea.  One way to make the bezel a little more
user-friendly would be to size it such that it could drop right onto the
front of a Ten-Tec BK-959 case that seems to be a nice size to enclose
an HPSDR.  If you wanted to mount the bezel to something else, it will
still work, as the front panel of the BK-959 is nothing more than a
rectangular piece of aluminum that's about 5.5 inches high by 9 inches
or so wide.
<snip>

Great idea - also to save us folks outside the US having to ship enclosures
a readily available size could be chosen?

Cheers,
Paul M1PAF


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