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I made a tempered steel enclosure this morning, but I can't tell if it is cool or not. Yay or nay?

it looks like you're touching it. So, it's clearly cool.

Looks cool. Can you drill it?

Hard to tell from that photo but IMO anything that isn't a generic aluminium cuboid has to be cool - and I'm happy to apply that rule to the rest of the things that constitute the Universe.

Goats? Cool
Armpits? Cool
Mattresses? Cool
Hammond 1590b enclosures? Boring and not cool.

oldangelmidnight wrote:Looks cool. Can you drill it?

Totally drillable. I'm going to do internal welds on the seams, so it will be clean, but industrial. Definitely not a plain old Hammond box.

Anymore shots of this?

Worst angle to tell. Give us some depth. Where'd ya pick it up?

Yeah! I want more pics! I love the idea of hand-made enclosures.

I made it with my father. Prototype. The next ones will be prettier, once we have the jig made. He does enclosures, I do internals. I'm posting more pics in a bit.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4JA1i ... sp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4JA1i ... sp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4JA1i ... sp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4JA1i ... sp=sharing


Feel free to comment.

Looks pretty cool Chuck!

The only thing I'll say is you have to be careful of rust with steel. So if I were you I'd clear coat it. Steel, in my experience, tends to rust ridiculous fast for no apparent reason.

Yeah for real. There are some cool gun finishes you could try, though, since it's steel.

We will be clear-coating, for sure, to prevent rust.

My father is a gunsmith, so case-hardening is on the table.

Hand Cast Metal Knob!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4JA1i ... sp=sharing


Test Fittings:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4JA1i ... sp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4JA1i ... sp=sharing

whats up wit this?