Eddystone Enclosure... another solution...

[Bullet79]

Its cheaper than Hammond B series enclosure...less rounded ..almost the same size.. die-cast aluminum alloy...
just arrive...


including 9v studs.. 3pdt

its gonna be drilling madness tommorow...

[Hanglow]

where from? I get them from rapid

[dromilious]

where do you find cheap aluminium enclosures?do you know a good ebay seller for electronic parts or an e store?

[The Tone God]

BTW Eddystone is made by Hammond.

Andrew

[cpm]

i think Eddystone is a European manufacturer associated with Hammond (or owned by), they are usually the same sizes, even if with another codenames
That may well be the reason they are cheaper in EU than Hammond

[deadastronaut]

they are the ones we use in th uk.....less rounded than the hammonds....around £4.20. for a 1590b.

i never understood why we get the eddystones (squared) in the uk, and the rest of the world get hammond (rounded) ones.

i even sent them an email about it, and got no response....

[frequencycentral]

they are the ones we use in th uk.....less rounded than the hammonds....around £4.20. for a 1590b.

£3.07 at Rapid:

http://www.rapidonline.com/productinfo.aspx?&tier1=Tools%2c+Fasteners+%26+Production+Equipment&tier2=Enclosures&tier3=Metal+Cases&tier4=Eddystone+series+die-cast+thin+wall+aluminium+enclosure&moduleno=71713&catref=30-1532

[newfish]

+1 for both Rapid and Eddystone Enclosures.

Easy to drill out, and readily available at a fair price.

[deadastronaut]

£3.07 at Rapid:

http://www.rapidonline.com/productinfo.aspx?&tier1=Tools%2c+Fasteners+%26+Production+Equipment&tier2=Enclosures&tier3=Metal+Cases&tier4=Eddystone+series+die-cast+thin+wall+aluminium+enclosure&moduleno=71713&catref=30-1532

[deadastronaut]

Totals      £3.07   £3.07

Spend another £26.93 to qualify for Free Delivery (UK Mainland Only)       Delivery      £4.95
Sub Total      £8.02
VAT      £1.60
Grand Total      £9.62

   

[frequencycentral]

Totals      £3.07   £3.07

Spend another £26.93 to qualify for Free Delivery (UK Mainland Only)       Delivery      £4.95
Sub Total      £8.02
VAT      £1.60
Grand Total      £9.62

   

If you buy 20 at a time you pay £3.12 per enclosure including VAT - free shipping. You do plan to build more stompboxes don't you? 

[juansolo]

Before you finish the big Eddystone enclosures, run a file around the bottom edge of the box and the base, they tend to have a bit of casting flash.  If you dont the paint ends up collecting on it, and results in a untidy edge.  The small ones are fine.

[deadastronaut]

Before you finish the big Eddystone enclosures, run a file around the bottom edge of the box and the base, they tend to have a bit of casting flash.  If you dont the paint ends up collecting on it, and results in a untidy edge.  The small ones are fine.

@rick.. no.

yeah they used to be quite rough at the bottom, they seem to have sorted that out now...they are ok.

[Hides-His-Eyes]

Special offer at rapid this week: free postage for orders over £10exc. Code FREE04 .

[dromilious]

I quess for me here in Greece the shipping cost is about 30 GBP !!! I usually buy from banzaimusic enclosures but i have to pay more 10 Euros for shipping.

[frequencycentral]

My latest Rapid order just arrived, less than 24 hours after I placed it. All the 1590B's are perfect as far as they have no flash to file off. The 1590BB's on the other hand are all seriously flashed, as are the 1590A's. I wonder why the B's are perfect and the others are not........?

[deadastronaut]

hmmm....different departments, or foundries?..or just lazy sods..


i'll have an order up then...

[Electric Warrior]

yup, apparently there's two different versions. The ones with the rough edges have an eddystone logo on the inside of the lid. The cleaner ones don't.

[The Tone God]

My understanding is Eddystone got bought by Hammond a few years back. Hammond has some restrictions that in the UK the Hammond name will not be used but outside the Eddystone name will not be used. In the process Hammond merged some of the Eddystone molds with their own to expand their available box sizes while replacing the redundant sizes with their own. The 1590BB style Eddystone used to make with the sharper edges are now Hammmond's 1590BB. At least I haven't seen a recently produced Eddystone 1590BB with the sharp edges. I have a bunch of those still but I got those many years ago. I don't know but maybe they pulled the older molds out for the sharper edge 1590BB. Some of the Hammond labelled case sizes still have the Eddystone name inside them. The 1590J comes to mind.

Andrew