lavrgs wrote: ↑Sat 06/05/21 11:15 am
I am considering making a chassis, that I will call a composite; it would be constructed of machined side walls and use flat aluminum panels for front back and top.
How would you attach the pieces to each other? Angle aluminum? Or would you weld it together? I've been making chassis for hi-fi gear from rectangular aluminum extrusions. They're 1/8" thick, sized 10" X 2", 8" X 3", etc. I cut them to length, cut out the bottoms for working inside the chassis, then add front and rear panels that are anodized and engraved. It's a huge amount of time and work cutting all the pieces, and I probably won't continue this process when my current small inventory is used up.
I think there are more off-the-shelf solutions for instrument amps than for hi-fi. And they're cheaper, too. A pre-made chassis for the type of gear I frequently build would cost upwards of $400 if the shop did everything (anodized and/or painted and engraved/silkscreened).
It's a never-ending problem.
Jack