Cheapest case?

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Cheapest case?

Post by im_an_alien »

What's the cheapest way to make a case?
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Frankencase. Take the system case, screen case, and controller and mutate them together (I think Triton has the most experience with frankencasing).
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Other than that... Although I guess that would be good, I was planning on selling the original case
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Cardboard box?
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wood? box? wooden box??
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Don't make a case, just hot glue everything together. Then you can buy a lot of sliced bread from the money you saved! Anyone with Ben's book should get my joke, I hope
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limpport wrote:the money you saved!
I have no money to save :P
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Post by Skyone »

Plexiglass + Sheetmetal Strip works best. Take to plexiglass sheets and seperate them with sheetmetal.

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Post by CronoTriggerfan »

Project box. Cheap, efficient, and professional. The only potential problem is it's a bit.....boxy for some people's taste :lol: . Other than that, I'd say do a franken or case mod, if you keep the case. The styrene/bent aluminum works ok too.

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Post by im_an_alien »

I think I'll do a project box, 'specially since I'm not keeping the case
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Post by dman762000 »

or you could get a free sample of cases from several enclosures companies, I am currently using a polycase AG series for my porta-geni (codename No. 1)
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Post by Jakq »

Put it in a bag.
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Post by XFactor »

Buy one of those "wine-in-a-box" cartons and use that.
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Post by Kurt_ »

Why not just finsd a buncch of different things and hot fglue it all together?

You can have a cardboard/cd case/hard drive cover case!
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Post by Krepticor »

hell just coat the project in hot glue and cover it with duct tape

think about it (It would be nearly bullet proof)
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