Homebrew PCBs

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, lists <stuart.winsor.lists@d...>
wrote:
> In article <4325cd49.4a779270.42cf.33c9@m...>,
>    Joe Xerox <joe.xerox@g...> wrote:
> > Hi,
> 
> > I'm interested in this way of building enclosures. Can you post some
> > pictures? An how do you bend the AL and make straight and nice looking
> > corners?
> 
> I don't have a case I'm currently working on ATM, I can take
pictures of.
> 
> I am very fortunate in that I have access to a metal cutting guillotine
> (shear) and bender at work but with retirement looming I have to
think of
> alternatives. I have already aquired one of those benders that
consists of
> some pieces of angle iron and a lever, which you clamp in a vice. As far
> as cutting goes it might have to be jigsaw or panel saw and a lot of
> careful filling, though I'm starting to watch ebay to see if some
sort of
> guillotine comes up.

I some times go to local industrial auctions - shears and brakes come
up fairly regularly.  The prices can vary wildly based on whose
bidding - I have seen them go from very cheap to above the list price
for new.  It doesn't hurt to keep an eye on them.  You never know. 

I have a Griz 30" combo shear/brake with box fingers and it works
quite nicely for that style of aluminum box.   Doubles as a PCB cutter
extrordinaire.