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--- Quote from: vib_ribbon on June 19, 2005, 03:49:01 pm ---pcb,

... i might "make" some sort of a non-enclosed wooden box/ bracket for them so that they can't be flexed easily and that there is a some protective cover for its top and bottom. they will be mounted to these boxes permanently in and out of a cab.

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A bracket or backplane would be OK, but I wouldn't surround or enclose the board,
except for storage.

You could mount each one to some type of board with mounting feet (Giving an inch or so between the backplate and the board).  Then 'store' them in some type of box when not in use.  Maybe make a standard sized mount for them in your cab, and mount different-sized boards on same-sized backplates.  But we are talking a bunch of work.  I have hundreds of boards and store them in boxes and if possible in static bags, but I remove them for powering them up.

Heat could very well be an issue if you fully enclose them so there is no air flow.
Kusanagi-sama:

--- Quote from: vib_ribbon on June 15, 2005, 07:54:08 am ---...this may be a daft question, but here goes.

like the average man, i can only ever afford the room in the flat for 1 cab, so i'm always having to swap PCBs in and out of it. All that handling of the PCBs, plugging and unplugging can't be good.

i'm also big on retro games, and the boards tend to come as this massive 3 tier stack of circuitry, 30 years old.

if only everything is like capcom's cps2 or taito's f3... PCB cased in a plastic shell.

the question is, does anyone make generic plastic shells for older/ bare PCBs? i know the old boards come in all sorts of different sizes, but if someone made these at an affordable price, i for one would be very interested in investing such protection for my boards...

thoughts?

chun

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I am having the same problems with my CPS3 boards...I wish they came with an official cover.
ChadTower:

--- Quote from: vib_ribbon on June 15, 2005, 04:33:45 pm ---this may have been bad practice, but i never use to screw my pcbs to the wooden board to keep it in place, the pcb would just rest against it (the cab's heavy, it wasn't like i can knock it and it would fall over).
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Yes, that is bad practice.  Think about the weight of the board resting on 20+ year old solder joints.  The PCB mounting legs are there to prevent the solder joints on the board from having to bear weight, if you lay them down you're asking for broken solder joints.
AlanS17:
I've just got 2 words for you...

"pizza box"

If that doesn't work, I really like the adjustable pcb holder mentioned above.
Kilgore:
Bob Roberts provides a good suggestion.
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