{"id":73,"date":"2014-01-08T16:38:26","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T16:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.3.4\/?p=73"},"modified":"2018-01-09T06:48:23","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T14:48:23","slug":"making-the-case-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudacm.com\/?p=73","title":{"rendered":"Making the Case 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Making cases and enclosures always seemed like a job that required specialized tools.\u00a0 Most of my attempts at making enclosures resulted in some sad looking boxes.\u00a0 I just settled on using enclosures already fabricated.\u00a0 This presented its own set of problems.\u00a0 Fitting became an issue, the boxes would be either too big or too small.\u00a0 Another problem was machining the enclosures so I could place connectors, switches, or displays.\u00a0 All said, my skills at making enclosures is truly poor.\u00a0 This is my reasoning behind studying the subject and taking on the challenge to do it right.<\/p>\n<p>While searching I came across instructions provided by Tap Plastics.\u00a0 They are a reseller and custom fabricator of plastic enclosures, among other things.\u00a0 I found this video inspiring.\u00a0 Now, I had some direction in the whole business of custom enclosures.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hT6Ow_cBTps\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making cases and enclosures always seemed like a job that required specialized tools.\u00a0 Most of my attempts at making enclosures resulted in some sad looking boxes.\u00a0 I just settled on using enclosures already fabricated.\u00a0 This presented its own set of problems.\u00a0 Fitting became an issue, the boxes would be either too big or too small.\u00a0 Another problem was machining the enclosures so I could place connectors, switches, or displays.\u00a0 All said, my skills at making enclosures is truly poor.\u00a0 This&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudacm.com\/?p=73\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudacm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudacm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudacm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudacm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudacm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudacm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudacm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudacm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudacm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudacm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}