[Lab] acrylic project boxes

[Andrew Plumb]

You could also adapt PC water-cooling systems if you want something that looks "mad scientist".  Locally, RB Computing carries Thermaltake options:

http://www.shoprbc.com/ca/shop/categoryProducts.php?category=137

http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/Category.aspx?C=1443

Andrew.

On 2011-03-08, at 10:49 AM, Jean-Marc LeBlanc wrote:

> If they have large heat sinks on them then I would say it is important
> to keep the air circulating no matter what you make the box out of.
> 
> Jean-Marc Le Blanc
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> "Do you pine for the nice days of Minix-1.1, when men were men and
> wrote their own device drivers?" Linus Torvalds
> 
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> 
> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Darcy Whyte <darcy at siteware.com> wrote:
>> I don't know.
>> I'm planning on having lots of fans.
>> Is there a better choice for making boxes?
>> Perhaps I can come up with a rack mounting system or a stacking system.
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Jean-Marc LeBlanc
>> <jeanmarc.leblanc at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I don't see why not.  do the controllers produce allot of heat?
>>> 
>>> Jean-Marc Le Blanc
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>>> 
>>> "Do you pine for the nice days of Minix-1.1, when men were men and
>>> wrote their own device drivers?" Linus Torvalds
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 7:34 AM, Darcy Whyte <darcy at siteware.com> wrote:
>>>> Is there any reason not to use acrylic to make boxes for CNC
>>>> controllers?
>>>> I'm gong to have 7 CNC controllers with power supplies (three are
>>>> backup)
>>>> and that's a lot of wires so I need to start looking at keeping things
>>>> tidy.
>>>> 
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