Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!bbn!bbn.com!aboulang
From: aboulang@bbn.com (Albert Boulanger)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Project Enclosures
Message-ID: <50872@bbn.COM>
Date: 13 Jan 90 00:38:34 GMT
References: <126@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>
Sender: news@bbn.COM
Reply-To: aboulanger@bbn.com
Lines: 59
In-reply-to: andreask@watson.bcm.tmc.edu's message of 11 Jan 90 06:24:18 GMT

In article  <126@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> Andreas Kasenides writes:

  In the past I have built a couple or so of electronic projects only to 
  find out that when I was ready to put a box around it and put the final
  screws on it, I could not really find that proper box anywhere. They were 
  either too short, too wide or too bulky. I checked a couple of catalogs
  but to my amazement nothing exciting was to be found. Well I though as a last
  resort I can always drop by the hardware store pick up a couple of square
  yards of aluminum and machine my own box. More surprises there. No hardware
  store (at least in my area, Houston) carries any such aluminum panels that 
  can be used to make boxes for electronic projects.


4 Ideas:
****************************************************************
I have bought boxes like this in a hit-or-miss fashion from:

Jerryco Inc
601 Linden Place
Evaston Il. 60202
708 475-8440

They have a couple of boxes in their current flyer.
****************************************************************
Get a subscription to Nuts & Volts Magazine which is a kind of poor-man's
equivalent to Computer Shopper:


Nuts & Volts Magazine
P.O. Box 1111
Placentia CA 92670
714 632-7721 or FAX 714 632-3041
$12/year subscription

****************************************************************
I remember on my trips to Silicon Valley two places that seem to have
good stuff cheap (including boxes) and from my copy of a Nuts and Volts:

Halted Specialties Corp (HSC Electronic Supply)
3500 Ryder St
Santa Clara CA 95051
1 (800)-4-HALTED
BBS# 408 732-2814
(I remember a big project box selection)

Haltek Electronics
1062 Linda Vista Ave.
Mt. View CA 94043
408 744-1333
(Lots of metal and plastic stock)

Perhaps you native Silicon Valley folk can elaborate further.


With an eye towards surplus :8-),

Albert Boulanger
BBN Systems & Technologies Corp.
aboulanger@bbn.com