Sheet metal enclosures... inspire me

Erik S said:
This came up in my local Craigslist search. Looks like aluminum top screwed to flocked wood. Cool shape.

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RARE 1960s Applied Fuzz and Treble Booster Boost Effects Pedal Vintage - musical instruments - by owner - sale -...

I got this pedal as part of a package deal back in 1979 with a Sears guitar and DynaVox amp. Both of those are long gone but for some reason I stuck this in a box and kept it. I connected a 9 volt...
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Nice box, thanks for sharing.
 
darwin999 said:
Can you make a 2-piece enclosure that slides out (or has a hinged panel) for easy internal access?
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Sure, but...
There's some limitations of course. For example placement of the jacks, switches. I think that prism type box with hinged bottom is a good candidate. Or tonebender style enclosure whre the top panel is mounted to the side walls with 4 screws. Unscrew two screws and voila...
The other type of the enclosure could be an amp like box with a drawer that slides in and out. But unless you have a drawer with the front wall only (or rear wall only) you can't mount any controls on the top surface.
Regardless of the type of the box it's usually more precise work and takes longer to match two halves of the box.. and there's also thickness of the finish to consider.
darwin999 said:
What about more curved shapes? E.g., like the pic below - which also reminds me of the old Citroen Deux-Cheveaux car
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Doable too, but... You need a flat surface to properly mount jacks and pots. And probably you can't use board mounted pots here (unless it's a single row).
 
temol said:
You need a flat surface to properly mount jacks and pots.
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You raise good points in your comments, but I think there may be 2 ways to address this specific issue.
  1. Make it "locally" flat, i.e., immediately around the jack or pot but retain
  2. Place jacks and pots on areas with a larger radius of curvature, and use washers that are meant for non-flat surfaces, e.g., curved or "wave" metal washers &/or somewhat flexible fiber/plastic/etc washers. Maybe flexible washer on outer surface, and wave washer on inner surface.
 
andare said:
Must be a pain in the neck to make those slots but they look amazing.
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Not really... slots are quite easy to make. But a mistake or a slip of the hand when sawing the slot may be impossible to hide. Then the whole job has to be started over again. With a round hole it's easier. Often any mistake can be masked with a nut and washer :)
 
I think it was more meant to protect the pedal from the clumsy singer trying to overshadow the guitarist by standing in front of his pedalboard drunk of his butt but your explanation also makes sense :ROFLMAO:
 
Amptweaker enslosures are usually quite crammed with knobs and switches. It's crowded there. And the bar in this place is a strange idea. :)
 
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