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Wildrat
| | Posted on Thursday, January 15, 2004 - 9:00 am: | 
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I am thinking about mounting my equip, except the radio which will be up front, in an old computer case. Maybe an amp, modulator, meter.
Does any one forsee any probs with this. Also before anyone says cooling, the fans in a computer case typically use 12vdc to operate.
Your input will be much appreciated!
You can see my beast at this web site.
http://www.grump1.com
follow the photo's link.
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Bruce
| | Posted on Thursday, January 15, 2004 - 12:14 pm: |
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heck i dont see why not a mini rack case cool idea |
Wildrat
| | Posted on Thursday, January 15, 2004 - 1:38 pm: |
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Thats what I thought too!
You can see the beast it's going in at the above link. |
Barracuda
| | Posted on Thursday, January 15, 2004 - 5:02 pm: |
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Just make sure you have plenty of ventilation, either natural or forced via fan(s) |
Wildrat
| | Posted on Friday, January 16, 2004 - 7:10 am: |
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thank you |
Bruce
| | Posted on Friday, January 16, 2004 - 9:07 am: |
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thoes computer fans mount right in the case ...cool idea wildrat! |
Wildrat
| | Posted on Friday, January 16, 2004 - 11:51 am: |
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yea, i'm in the process of cutting up the case now, just have to wait on the freq mtr from copper to make it's hole. |
Wildrat
| | Posted on Friday, January 16, 2004 - 11:55 am: |
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bruce did not see you were from seminole till just now. a neighbor. |
Scrapiron63
| | Posted on Friday, January 16, 2004 - 12:30 pm: |
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I did something like this back about 1978, I used an old wooden broadcast radio case, the chassic was gone from the old radio. I mounted a 40 channel SSB/Am mobile radio with lots of channels, freq counter, palomar 500 wattmeter and power supply in the case. Also used the big speaker in the old radio, and some of the switches, and mounted a mike connector on the front panel. Looked pretty nice, and was a conversation piece. I've got an old pic, not very good, but will post it, you can tell a little about it. |
Scrapiron63
| | Posted on Friday, January 16, 2004 - 12:30 pm: |
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C:\WINDOWS\Desktop  1978
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Kc0gxz
| | Posted on Friday, January 16, 2004 - 3:54 pm: |
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Scrapiron63
Nice looking piece of work.
Jeff, kc0gxz. |
Wildrat
| | Posted on Friday, January 16, 2004 - 3:58 pm: |
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Amasing what a dremel tool will do. I just need that freq meter, and I will be done except for the powering up. |
Bruce
| | Posted on Friday, January 16, 2004 - 9:59 pm: |
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yep at the corner of 102 and 113 st right across from SPJC seminole |
Wildrat
| | Posted on Saturday, January 17, 2004 - 7:42 am: |
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I'm in CLW near the tax ofice, within walking distance of the car parts stores, or hobbling distance. |
Wildrat
| | Posted on Saturday, January 17, 2004 - 2:33 pm: |
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Well dug out all my junk I've been collecting, and even the small fans on the cpu's are 12vdc, so I have halfa dozen of those so far, plus some from power supplies. So I will use the smaller ones on the heat sinks for some of the equip. and use the big ones to pull air out of the case. Just need that freq. meter to show up on the door step, so i can cut it's hole. |
Bruce
| | Posted on Saturday, January 17, 2004 - 3:12 pm: |
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we should be within range ch 13 LSB 12pm tomorrow! |
Wildrat
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 9:55 am: |
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UPDATE: Well I am near completion of this project. I used three 4" fans on the back of the case to pull air thru. I used three 2" fans mounted on a bracket to blow air across the heat sink of the amplifier. I think this should be sufficient. i will post pictures to my web site when done. |
Bruce
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 21, 2004 - 4:49 am: |
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Wildrat
Your tower is sounding cool!
Have you checked Chesters in largo? The guy who run it is a ham he caters to the repair dealears the old TV repair shops but its been there 20+ years and in the back he has a pile of scraped computer and old electronics ..... you never know what you might find there.... They even have a tailgate party about once every 3 months.
Got a scanner?
http://www.carshamradio.org/bin/site/templates/splash.asp
Local nets Sun 8pm 146.550fm, Wends 52.02fm and you never know what ( or who ) might be on 146.97, 146.64 or 146.85.
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Wildrat
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 21, 2004 - 11:11 am: |
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Chesters is where I usually go locally to get stuff. I need to go there now. I need a couple of chassis mount female 259 connectors. |
Bruce
| | Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 5:20 am: |
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Wildrat
How did you do at chesters? Got any photos yet? I need myself to get started on moving the station and finshing up the antennas / coax feeds but just no time yet ...... even my crystal radio rebuild is sitting in a box ....just an't enough hours in a day! |
Wildrat
| | Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 7:51 pm: |
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Well, no pictures yet, I have been preoccupied with my web server, I have been getting denial of service attacks from sorry individuals, and i have been tinkering with a couple of websites i am working on, and i also have my 72 chevelle wagon project, plus the radio, plus,plus,plus, as you say not enough time, oh did i mention the video card going out in one of my machines. I had a good time with that one figuring out why the machine did not want to boot properly. Oh well, and that was yesterday, not to mention the new pain meds the doc gave me. Oh haven't got to chesters yet. Well see ya later. |
Bruce
| | Posted on Friday, January 23, 2004 - 4:53 am: |
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Hummmm sounds like you need a trip to skyline in orlando a $1000 to spend and a six pack ...... What do you think? |
Wildrat
| | Posted on Thursday, January 29, 2004 - 11:25 am: |
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Well I did get some pictures taken. I have not put them on the web site yet. I do have some more pictures of my chevelle wagon on http://www.grump1.com
They are just the engine bay where the frame has been painted in preparation for the motor, which is ready to be put in as soon as I get some help from one of my boy's so they can do most of the physical labor involved in removing the engine from my truck. Anyway that's my update.
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