How do you hold enclosures?
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pricklyrobot
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Bought a Panavise base and this head many years ago, and it is the single best investment I’ve made pedal-tool-wise.
Way more sturdy than those chintzy third-hand things, won’t scratch your stuff, and will securely hold anything from large PCBs and enclosures down to individual pots or even LEDs. The adjustment crank can be easily turned with one finger for quick adjustments.
I know sound like a Panavise shill, but this thing is legitimately pretty excellent
Alan W
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I made my living (or at least some of it) machining and painting things that were finger sized. None of this would have been possible without double faced tape. These range from the double face clear scotch tape that most are familiar with all the way to some VHB (very high bond) tapes that, if applied correctly, will be near impossible to break the bond without destroying parts.
But the most used double faced tape in my shop was “Intertape 591” which was a crepe (like generic masking tape) tape, just a bit thicker than masking tape, that had a white peel off cover on it. It was not the strongest, but still surprisingly strong, and one of its best features was that the adhesive was easily dissolved by alcohol. This meant that I could tape a block of plastic on the milling machine bed, surface it and do whatever other machining I needed to do, then squeeze a little alcohol on the bed, and easily lift the plastic off.(metal Waza no go for this approach, as the heat from machining would weaken the adhesive.)
The paint booth used scrap wooden sticks with small tabs of tape to hold whatever we were painting. You could angle them however you wanted, and then stick the sticks into a short tube that was glued onto a wooden base—I’ll see if I have pictures. This is still how I fixture enclosures to paint them.
That intertape is available online. Amazon has it, for about 2x what you’d pay from an industrial supplier, but note that a 1 inch piece of 3/4 inch tape will hold an enclosure to a stick just fine. (Make sure everything is clean and dust free). In the one picture I had on my phone, these disks are being held by about 1/8 x 3/4 inch of tape, on the ends of small slats.
But the most used double faced tape in my shop was “Intertape 591” which was a crepe (like generic masking tape) tape, just a bit thicker than masking tape, that had a white peel off cover on it. It was not the strongest, but still surprisingly strong, and one of its best features was that the adhesive was easily dissolved by alcohol. This meant that I could tape a block of plastic on the milling machine bed, surface it and do whatever other machining I needed to do, then squeeze a little alcohol on the bed, and easily lift the plastic off.(metal Waza no go for this approach, as the heat from machining would weaken the adhesive.)
The paint booth used scrap wooden sticks with small tabs of tape to hold whatever we were painting. You could angle them however you wanted, and then stick the sticks into a short tube that was glued onto a wooden base—I’ll see if I have pictures. This is still how I fixture enclosures to paint them.
That intertape is available online. Amazon has it, for about 2x what you’d pay from an industrial supplier, but note that a 1 inch piece of 3/4 inch tape will hold an enclosure to a stick just fine. (Make sure everything is clean and dust free). In the one picture I had on my phone, these disks are being held by about 1/8 x 3/4 inch of tape, on the ends of small slats.
