unusual enclosures?????

[el duderino]

hey i want i dont really want to use any of the normal boxes for my builds any one no any unusual incloseures that i can recycle? :roll:

[claydavis]

go to your nearest thrift/second-hand store and look around. there are usually countless things that will make neat (or simply bizarre!) enclosures, and you can get them cheap.

[donald stringer]

I spied some lamp bottoms in the local ace hardware, some were brass, some were imitation brass. They already had a convenient 3/8 hole in the middle for the threaded lamp tube.

[Rodgre]

I think my first ever pedal was built into the carcass from an old cable box from the days when all you had was "switch one way and watch normal TV, switch the other way and watch Home Box Office!"

Remember when THAT was cable?

Roger

[Paul Marossy]

For 75 cents you can get something like this at a thrift store:





The hole where the LED is was already there. I used the bottom of a tuna can for the bottom plate.

[el duderino]

hey thank sofr the pics it kinda looks like a lid off of a coffee pot or somehing :shock:

[petemoore]

I took about 40 min. and chopped a Hard Drive box down to about 1 14'' tall, it now houses an AMZ OD Pro, 6 knobs along a long side, jacks out one end, battery enclosed.
 The board is screw/through rubber foot mounted, holes drilled in the phelonic, self tapping screws from scavenges used. I forsee N/P's...
 by loosening the two screws [that don't fall out, the rubber 'standoff feet' keep them handy, and make it very easy to align/reassemble] and tipping the board [all the knobs on one side], I can get right back to it easily for mods, etc.
 It wasn't hard to re-work, and re-attach the pieces for the lower profile.
 I used a toggle bypass switch, I don't know that I'd trust the thinner sheet to support much stompswitch pressures, I would attach another sheet under the top for support.

[Brian Marshall]

For some reason, now i want to build a pedal in one of those tap lights.  the whole thing can turn on when its activated


might make a good stage show....

better buy some batteries

[StephenGiles]

el duderino - I dare say that you have the same problems in Ireland getting decent enclosures that we do in England, unless you have a friendly metalwork company which will make you up boxes to order. I noticed a wooden paint box in our local art shop the other day which seemed an ideal size for a stompbox which maybe a start. It might also be possible to cobble something together using a combination of balsa wood and pieces of aluminium sheeting.

[StephenGiles]

el duderino - I dare say that you have the same problems in Ireland getting decent enclosures that we do in England, unless you have a friendly metalwork company wherethey will make you up boxes to order. I noticed a wooden paint box in our local art shop the other day which seemed an ideal size for a stompbox which maybe a start. It might also be possible to cobble something together using a combination of balsa wood and pieces of aluminium sheeting.

[gez]

I've never used any of these, so don't know how appropriate they'd be, but there's some nice shapes...

http://www.marquetry.co.uk/main/acatalog/Wooden_Boxes.html

[Dan N]

A thrift store trailor brake-

[el duderino]

so this post was a good idea after all

im going to go to the recycling centre near my house soon enough to see if the can help...... (when they get in books they put them on shelves so you can just take them i suppose its just the same for everything else, before they get sent to be mushed up and melted down into crap, that is!)

it might be worth a look ill let you guys know! :lol:
eamonn