Actually, paper-based Grade XX Phenolic would be about 1/2 the cost of G-10. I get about $60 in raw material cost for a case with a design that could be epoxied together at home reasonably well.
On Thursday, June 4, 2015 at 10:36:40 PM UTC-7, Andrew Bingham wrote: > > Several people have asked about different S-100 enclosure options. Custom > enclosures are often time consuming to get, heavy to ship, etc. > > There was an article on Hackaday about making enclosures from FR4 PCB > board - > http://hackaday.com/2015/06/03/how-to-build-beautiful-enclosures-from-fr4-aka-pcbs/ > > While I think doing it with etched-copper clad board and a soldering iron > as shown in the Hackaday pieces is not really an option for an enclosure > large enough for S-100 systems (and a waste of copper board) - plain G-10 > FR4 is readily available. > > One could purchase a single 36"x36"x0.093" piece of black G-10 FR4 ( > http://www.eplastics.com/G10BLK-093X36X36) and cut it into the pieces > required to make a 17x17x7" enclosure, and still have about a 5"x36" > section of material left to make card guides, drive cages, etc. 5-minute > epoxy from the store could be used to bond the pieces into the final > configuration. With a simple PCB mill like the X-Crave, holes, ports, etc > could be added (and maybe groves to guide fitting the pieces together). > > An advantage here would be if someone made a kit, the G-10 pieces could be > shipped flat-packed similar to the way we ship our PCBs and the epoxy > purchased locally at a hardware store by the builder. Thus avoiding the > shipping costs of a heavy and volumetrically large metal enclosure, which > end up being a significant portion of the cost of any hobby enclosure > project. > > Andrew > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "N8VEM-S100" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
