MCI 500 porn

I've just posted some photos of MCI 500 series channel strips that were sliced and diced into racks. Check out http://www.proharmonic.com/recent.htm if interested.

Rob

Dude! That stuff is tits. Nice work.

Ian

Great job.

Hey, I have 8 mic channels of a Yamaha PM1000 and 2 master modules. At first, I'm thinking of rebuilding it as a console, but now that I see your rack and the way you did it, I'm having second thoughts. I may do it your way.

Can you share some tips?

What chassis did you use? I see that it's an open frame chassis.
Where'd you get them? Do those come in standard height sizes?
How deep?

What did you use to cut the channel strip?

I assume the light colored L bracket at the top and bottom is used to hide the jagged cut?

Thanks in advance.

Owel
I built the rack frame from 3mm aluminium angle, it was the only way to get the dimensions right. This is a mother of a box 23kgs, 345mm deep, 8 units high!
Tools of trade, hacksaw, centre punch and drill-press and lots of time, about 16 hours to build the case, mount the backplane and punch out the rear panel. All panels are mounted with tapped holes into the frame, so they can all be easily removed.
The cream coloured strips lock in the channel modules, which plug into the backplane, being light coloured it can be used as a "scribble strip".

Tips: measure, check, measure again, go have a coffee and fag, check again, think about what you have forgotten to take into account, measure again...get more aluminium, 'cause you stuffed up, start over again!!

Thanks.

>with tapped holes into the frame,

How do you do tapped holes? Do you drill smaller than the bolt size and force it's way in?

tap holes with a "tap", this is a tool that cuts the thread into the walls of the hole.

really nice work. quite inspiring.
:thumb: :green:

great job done there... :shock: