How do you hold enclosures?

jessenator

jessenator

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Wanted to kinda poll people's thoughts and solutions on the matter.

I don't even know the technical description, because I know they exist, but a sort of mechanism, tool, hack, or implement to hold enclosures in the air to do certain types of work, detail painting, etc.

I'm thinking some kinda reverse clamp that goes on the inside of the box, pushing against the sides and allows you to manipulate it by hand without marring the finish on the outside.

That was long-winded, but like I said, I can't for the life of me think of the name for it.
 
Use a stand and get some stainless steel wire from harbor freight to hang them. Put a screw into the screw holes and now you have a point to hang it from!
 
Long sheet metal screws a couple sizes larger than the enclosure screws. The self tapping tip wendges in the threads nicely without chowdering them up. same for the lids/baseplates.
I've also used 2x zip ties, the kind with the screw mounting hole at the end, with screws through them, looped though each other inside the enclosure and screwed in diagonal holes from each other. Makes an internal handle of sorts. Or 1/2 of an x brace. But it doesn't lift them off the resting surface once painted and kind of a pain to sit them down without smudging.
 
I just sit them on a plastic cup that I’ve cut down height-wise to fit inside the enclosure. Sit that on a flat paper plate on a plastic rotating lazy Susan. Can spin it around for painting. I never have more than one enclosure being painted at any given time though.
 
Thanks for the suggestions. I've got these nifty paint standoffs for when they're just sitting flat, just putting on some rattle can coats.

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I guess what I'm thinking is something that you can wedge in there and then pick up with your hands, manipulate it. Like an inverse clamp…
 
Or 2 looped handles, angles on opposing sides that would also function as a stand, similar to the wire rack idea
 
I made these up a while ago. It's basically a 2x4 and some dowels. The enclosures are affixed with masking tape and super glue. Stick the tape to the inside of the enclosure and the surface of the 2x4 and super glue them together. This way I can get to all angles when painting and it's easy to move them. The dowel is glued to the piece the enclosure is taped to, but not to the base so I can pull them out individually. I think of them as lollipops. I've made up some different designs to hold bigger or smaller enclosures. In this pic they are curing after I've clear coated them

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falco_femoralis said:
I made these up a while ago. It's basically a 2x4 and some dowels. The enclosures are affixed with masking tape and super glue. Stick the tape to the inside of the enclosure and the surface of the 2x4 and super glue them together. This way I can get to all angles when painting and it's easy to move them. The dowel is glued to the piece the enclosure is taped to, but not to the base so I can pull them out individually. I think of them as lollipops. I've made up some different designs to hold bigger or smaller enclosures. In this pic they are curing after I've clear coated them

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Masking tape is amazing! I use it with double-sided scotch tape for when I need to set it right away . Or a minimum amount of wood glue for non-permanent connection over a larger surfaces, so that I won't have to retape the object all the time. So cheap and fast, and there's so many ways to use it in combination with pieces of wood.
 
An aluminum drink or canned vegetable can or a couple of Dixie cups. It’s pretty sturdy and won’t tip over easily.
 
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