[hpsdr] punched metal backplate for Pandora

[w3sz]

Does anyone know if CAD files or text files with the exact dimensions 
used for Pandora [e.g. spacing/size of screw and other holes on the back 
panel] exist on the openhpsdr website or elsewhere on the web?

I have the boxes and can measure, but to keep errors as low as possible 
I'd like to start with the design dimensions first.

I couldn't find them at either

http://openhpsdr.org/wiki/index.php?title=PANDORA

or

http://openhpsdr.org/pandora.html

or

http://openhpsdr.org/documents.html

or

http://openhpsdr.org/download.html

or

http://www.tapr.org/kits_pandora.html

73,

W3SZ
Roger Rehr
http://www.nitehawk.com/w3sz

On 7/1/2009 8:05 PM, Roger Rehr wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Unfortunately my ham shack is in the country on the edge of the forest,
> and its impossible to keep mice out of it. I have had equipment damage
> by mice in past years at this location, so that everything I use is
> 'mouse proofed' or locked away after use. See
> http://www.nitehawk.com/w3sz/mouse-ft1000.htm if interested in proof.
>
> I very much like the Pandora enclosure and my Atlas/Mercury/OzyPenelope
> HPSDRs.
>
> But Pandora is not mouse proof, and I really do not want mice doing
> their mischief in my HPSDR enclosures.
>
> So I ask, would it be possible to design and have built a punched metal
> backplate to attach to the back of Pandora shaped to seal Pandora
> effectively with the above-mentioned boards in place?
>
> If it were possible to do so, I would like to proceed with moving this
> little project forward, as I am tiring of disconnecting and putting away
> my HPSDRs after each use and then getting them out again and
> reconnecting them for the next use. And I worry about the eventual
> effect of such repeated connects and disconnects on the stereo 3.5 mm
> connectors on Penelope and Mercury.
>
> So I would ask, of you experts on this list:
>
> 1. If this can be possibly done
> 2. What would be the preferred slot positions for Mercury/Ozy/Penelope?
> [so that the backplate can be designed to accommodate this arrangement]
> 3. What business concern might give a price for producing such
> backplates and then do a good job of producing them?
> 4. Who else on the list might be interested in having such backplates
> [if anyone] if I were to have them produced?
> 5. Is there anyone that would like to tackle the layout / dimensions of
> such a backplate? I could do it but as I have no experience in doing
> either the careful measuring or the CAD layout this would require, I
> suspect I'd screw it up.
>
> The mice can get in thru some very tiny holes, so I might also need to
> plug up the openings intended for Alex for those Pandoras that won't
> include Alex.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Roger Rehr
> W3SZ
> http://www.nitehawk.com/w3sz/osxhpsdrserver.htm
>
>

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