Floating board?

[oldsoul]

I'm building some custom wooden boxes to house some Madbeans boards. I want to attach the pots, switches, LED, etc directly to the top metal panel and not attach them directly to the circuit board. I'm trying to figure a way of securing the board to the box in some way. These boards don't have standoff holes or much room to secure then anywhere. Just would love top hear any ideas yo may have on how best to achieve this.

[kaycee]

Hot glue, double sided tape?

[r080]

I have had good success using epoxy to attach standoffs to my enclosures. I believe there is a Geofex page describing it. I will try to find it.

[r080]

It was a small bear page, actually.
http://diy.smallbearelec.com/HowTos/Shell/Shell.html

[antonis]

Polystyrene Styrofoam Foam sheet..

https://www.ebay.com/itm/303816719878?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D1110006%26algo%3DHOMESPLICE.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20200818143230%26meid%3Dcb59286ccbb640f0a1f71589ab526abd%26pid%3D101224%26rk%3D3%26rkt%3D5%26sd%3D174758482086%26itm%3D303816719878%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2047675%26algv%3DDefaultOrganicWeb&_trksid=p2047675.c101224.m-1

Just hollow out a proper size dimple with a scalpel/X-acto knife or similar tool..

[Fancy Lime]

Just fill out the entire enclosure with generous amounts of goop. That instantly makes it boutique and also gives it a good heft so you can really feel the build quality!

Sorry, I have nothing useful to add here because I have had the same problem many times and have not yet found a proper solution. Following attentively...

Andy

[iainpunk]

i just wrap my boards in electrical tape and tuck them under some edge or leave them hanging inside. best thing is that those are more reliable than my old pedals where i mounted my boards on the pots.

cheers

[blackieNYC]

I will fold electrical tape over on itself to make a non-sticky insulator where needed.  My pots aren't mounted to my perf board, so the board is floating in a small nest of short wires.  I like to think of it as shock mounting, and not laziness.   But it has been very successful for me. 

[Mark Hammer]

These pots have increased in popularity and availability in recent years, as a way of holding a board aloft without requiring spacers or standoffs.


Personally, I'm always surprised by how well boards can be suspended in a very stable way by the wires connecting pots and switches to the board.  And these are not solid-core wires, either.

[duck_arse]

I'm building some custom wooden boxes ....

custom wooden boxes means custom wood offcuts. glue the offcuts to the box, use them as supports. you can notch the board edges and run a screw thru the notch. you can rebate the wood for the board edges, then add a wooden clamp-bar over the top.

failing that - use some cheese.

[iainpunk]

don't use cheese! its more conductive that you'd expect.

cheers

[stallik]

So it is. Here's a 500K Red Leicester resistor. I had a couple of 1M but ate those

More seriously, I use these quite a bit

[GibsonGM]

Sometimes I'll attach a machine screw (1 1/2" long perhaps...a couple of cm long) to the board using 2 nuts, like making legs for it. Cheap standoffs really.  Then, epoxy the heads where you want the board to sit in the enclosure. Later can remove the board if you like by taking the top-most nuts off...

Or just allow the pot/jack wires to center the PCB, and use foam on the bottom (enclosure cover) to keep it from shorting.

[iainpunk]

i was just watching tv and a PlayDoh ad came up and i was thinking, if you make an enclosure out of clay, you can mold it to physically hold the board in place with ledges/slits/ridges.

cheers

[PRR]

....if you make an enclosure out of clay, you can mold it to physically hold the board....

https://youtu.be/F02P2JO7yfc?t=35

There actually is a PlaDoh-like stuff you can bake hard in the oven. More a UK market thing than US?

[iainpunk]

....if you make an enclosure out of clay, you can mold it to physically hold the board....

https://youtu.be/F02P2JO7yfc?t=35

There actually is a PlaDoh-like stuff you can bake hard in the oven. More a UK market thing than US?

fimo clay. really great stuff for ergonomic perfect fit grips for diy projects.
its not even that expensive

cheers

[EBK]

For the proposed clay-like solutions, you can simply use epoxy putty.  No baking required, sticks by itself.

[Andon]

Why not use silly putty? That way if someone wants to clone your tone all you have to do is put that silly putty into a new enclosure and done.