My new "prototype" enclosure

[Emnitec]

Enclosures is a big thing in making your own stomp-boxes. I've had a homemade box earlier
but it was to much work making it so I endend up buying the hammond or copies of hammond
boxes. But now, I think I've made a prototype of a box that I'll stick to. No welding, pure aluminium
and a small amount of work to have it done...







It's nothing fancy but it'll work and it's my own.....

This is the enclosure I made earlier...This one is a Nurse Quacky with balls....:



And, this is a sample of a box made of hammond....:



What do you folks think about my new design of enclosure...?

[puretube]

 

glued?

[Emnitec]

Yes, the "top" is glued with the same glue they use when making cars these days. I have tested it really roughly and it sticks.....

[John Lyons]

Alright, spill the beans! please tell us how you did it. You glued the top to the sides. Care to elaborate on where you got the material?
Looks nice for sure.

John

[Gilles C]

Hey, great idea.

We once used Black Max to glue some parts together where I work, but I would have never tought of using glue to make a box... Cool!

Maybe I could try with the JB Weld I have.

Gilles

[Harry]

I like wedge.

[zpyder]

ooooooo, do tell... the bane of my existance: paying money for hard boxes......

zheers,
cpyder

[Snuffy]

I like wedge.

I wish hammond made those wedge shaped boxes... they are definately awesome stompers

[markm]

Yes, Quite interested to dunk one into some Ferric Chloride 
Do tell the secrets...... umm, please

[SISKO]

Nice
Great work, congrats!

Bye
SISKO

[puretube]

be sure, to have all parts electrically conducting amongst each other...

[tommy.genes]

Before it was revealed that you used glue, I was thinking that both top and bottom plates were screwed on. I also thought, not only would that look cool, especially if you used some protruding hex-head screws on top, but that might greatly simplify final assembly.

-- T. G. --

[Paul Marossy]

Nice! 

[puretube]

Before it was revealed that you used glue, I was thinking that both top and bottom plates were screwed on. I also thought, not only would that look cool, especially if you used some protruding hex-head screws on top, but that might greatly simplify final assembly.

-- T. G. --

in that case, you wouldn`t need to cut & glue the 4 sidewalls,
but could youse an extruded rectangular alu-profile,
and (have) cut it to length (=height, in this case...).

[mojotron]

What kind of glue did you use on these.. I like the approach.

[Cliff Schecht]

I like wedge.

I wish hammond made those wedge shaped boxes... they are definately awesome stompers

Fry's sells them painted or unpainted for about $6. I've used them in a few pedals with big flip on/off switches (like the switches used for the back of a computer PSU, but much bigger) and have had great results. The first pedal I built was in one of those and still works 2 or so years later.

[Emnitec]

Before it was revealed that you used glue, I was thinking that both top and bottom plates were screwed on. I also thought, not only would that look cool, especially if you used some protruding hex-head screws on top, but that might greatly simplify final assembly.

-- T. G. --

in that case, you wouldn`t need to cut & glue the 4 sidewalls,
but could youse an extruded rectangular alu-profile,
and (have) cut it to length (=height, in this case...).

This box IS made of an rectangular alu-profile, so the amount of work is very low. Just cut it to the right "height" and then cut the top and bottom, in this case 1,5 mm alu measured 100x100. The bottom is screwed and the top glued with a "metal-glue". I can check the type of the glue later because it's in my work-shop....

[tcobretti]

Where would one buy extruded alu-profile?

[Emnitec]

Where would one buy extruded alu-profile?

Here in Sweden you can get this cheap at almost every engineering workshop. Imagine, with 1 meters of profile U can get a lot of boxes....

/Emnitec