[Amps] chassis maker?

[qrv at kd4e.com]

You surely have some Tech schools nearby with shops.

They used to take on small projects for a fee which gave the students
some experience & resume's and brought a little extra money into the
shop budget.

No idea what the bureaucrats and lawyers may have done to that in
recent years.

> I think what Dick had in mind was a company similar to the one Charles
> Byers owned and ran.  That is, a small metal shop where one could have a
> thick chassis built to your dimensions.  Charles offered such a service,
> produced the product promptly, charged a modest price and did good
> work.  Charles was not put out to do just one special chassis.  (He
> didn't make complex cabinets).  He bent metal.  This was a cottage
> industry for him and he was a ham.  Both WA5VGO and I used him for
> projects from time to time.  WA5VGO used him to build a bunch of chassis
> for his complex double conversion receivers and also for some nice 100
> watt type transmitters.  I used him for some Paraset boxes as well as
> for my Philmore NT-200 clone projects. Charles was always eager to help
> by building the chassis you wanted.  He was not into machined and milled
> cabinets.
>
> With so much small lot production done off shore these days,  it seems
> most small lot machine shops have gone extinct.  They sure have dried up
> around here in Houston, Texas.  I too would like to find a replacement
> small company who could generate needed small metal work for single ham
> radio projects.  I also have a friend here in Houston who constantly
> builds tube HI-Fi Amplifiers and he has a hard time getting chassis
> too.  I know he uses someone in Florida, but he needs to buy 50 at a
> time of any he wants built. If you try and build an amp, transmitter, or
> receiver today containing a few transformers, you may as well forget Bud
> or Hammond as the metal is so thin it can't handle the weight unless you
> put in a lot of time "beefing" up the thin chassis.  TenTec does a great
> job in a big way with nice cabinets  at reasonable prices but there
> product line is fixed and their line is mostly cabinets and not chassis.
>
> Anyone out there know of a replacement company for Charles Byers?
>
> Lee, w0vt
> Houston



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