19" enclosures

[Guest damien]

hello,

Do you know where I can find cheap 19" enclosures.

I want to build my MD"thorsten"Sid synth in a rack.

I'm searching for a 1, 4, 3 and 4 U rack enclosures.

The price is realy expensive for such a thing. it's only made of folded steel  ???

I've mailed schaeffer app.  because I saw they have really well-built profiles to make his own rack but it's quite expensive. and the pack of 6 pannels to make the box are too much expensive.

Schaffer is rvery good for milling the pannels but the premium material is quite expensive too.

Do you know companies who sell 19" cabinets in europ for low cost?

I want this kind of stuff:

http://www.par-metal.com/10series.htm

Thank you...

Best regards

Damien

[NorthernLightX]

Hi,

19" equipment is never cheap, the best you can find is it being less expensive than somewhere else, but never  really cheap. I too want to have a 19" enclosure for my SIDBox, and also want it to slope, for that nice table-top effect. If I cannot find what I'm looking for I will probably order the frontpanel from Schaeffer, and make the casing myself, from a piece of wood or MDF.

With a bit of luck I can find someone who'll be able to weld such a case for me out of aluminium plating, that would be really nice.

Cheers,  Alex.

[LO]

For a really cheap one

go to old second-hand/junk shops and buy an old rack mount case then you can chop it up and paint it eg I picked up a 8 way rack mount power box for 10 euros, needed a bit of work to mod it but looks sweet now.

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[Guest damien]

Alright,

somebody told me wher I could find what I'm looking for.

You have to go there : http://www.stquentin.net/coffret/esmer.htm

it's a shop in France which certainly deliver to europe.

the 19" racks are very cheap:

1U *138cm(d) - 31,00€ VAT

2U * 238cm(depth) - - 65,00€ VAT

4U *238cm(d) - 82,50€ VAT

that's quite nice.

This is the best one who sells the best boxes for the sid project...

See you soon.

[Guest burjer]

Hello Damien.

Did you buy any parts/enclosures from that french company? I found your link to them and they have alot of useful things. My problem is that they do not seem to have an email address, and no english information. I had to use babelfish to understand anything :)

Have you been in contact with them? If so, how does it look?

Regards Anders

[Guest damien]

Hello,

I'm sorry, I have not buy a thing to this retailer yet.

It's true they don't seem to have a mail.

but you can contact them with this maybe this will work:

Registrant:

st quentin radio (STQUENTIN2-DOM)

  6 rue de st quentin

  paris, fr 75010

  FRANCE

  Domain Name: STQUENTIN.NET

  Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:

     MARIE, therese  (TMD461)            therese.marie@NOMADE.FR

     saint quentin radio

     6 rue de Saint Quentin

     PARIS, 75010

     FR

+33 1 40 37 70 74

+33 1 40 37 70 91

This is the contact infos linked to their website via a registering company.

bye

[bosone]

the SID enclosure is a problem also for me... but before finding something in which putting the circuit i have to let it work!  ;D

anyway, if someone find somethi9ng, let us know... spending 40 euro for th smallest rack unit is a theft!

[jasper81]

Try Tech. universities or something similar. Racks have been in use for ages and at my Uni sometimes they just throw the things away.. so...if yur lucky...you walk away with a few..:)