Case Enclosures

Vibration Tolerance

• William K. Borsum says:

  ...surviving 500 G impacts. NOT socketed! All SMT and firmly soldered in place.

  Trick is to dip first into GE-RTV silicone rubber (real watery, clear, self releasing two part stuff) to provide an easily removable conformal coating. Let it cure, then pot with a urethane or epoxy filled with micro-balloons (syntactic foam filler) for strength and light weight.

  Whole package is pretty much indestructible--and can still be taken apart for repair or failure analysis.

• Michael Rigby-Jones says

  We soldered the eproms into turned pin DIL headers (the type with the solder buckets) and these were plugged into turned pin DIL sockets (all gold plated type). There was enough room under the socket to fit a small nylon tie wrap which held the whole assembley pretty secure. We had no problems, but the resulting arrangement could hardly be called "low profile"

Enclosures, Panels

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See also:

• spamsteveSPAM at spamflight-cases.net refers to

  http://www.flight-cases.net Flight cases, custom cases, 19" racks and plastic waterproof cases for the entertainment, commercial, military and exhibition industries. Online ordering with 24hr delivery of Explorer Cases, SKB Cases and 19" rack mount cases for industrial, musical, medical and emergency services use.

• http//www.dragoncases.co.uk Great site. Dragon cases are the best case manufacturers I've ever come across.
• ToolLess Plastics (http://www.ttkbox.com/index.html), they fab enclosures from sheet plastic, and do a great job. No tooling costs to speak of, so even though the final unit cost is higher than injection molded plastics, for smallish runs it's very economical.
• http://www.globeplastics.com. They score, bend, and glue sheets with cnc cuts. Their catalog looks impressive and they advertise low volume work.
• http://members.xoom.com/_XMCM/mspong/about.html The Household Cyclopedia - Knowledge of the ages.
• http://www.dtonline.org/ A very interesting site that allows you to design cut and folded packages online. Also information on injection molding with hot glue guns, and bead blasting.
• http://www.pactecenclosures.com/

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Comments:

• http://www.samcases.co.uk Great site! Thought this link might be of use i get all my cases from them: www.samcases.co.uk hope it helps someone!
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