[TenTec] Ten Tec custom enclosures comment...

[Stuart Rohre]

I take many trade magazines in electronics and manufacturing.  This year 
there has been a theme of the renovation and renewal of American 
manufacturing.

Building "stuff" is coming back on shore.  A prime example is the new 
Tesla car plant being wooed by a number of states.  There are a lot of 
suppliers that migrate to areas having an automotive plant as well as 
the brand plant.

There is also moves in electric batteries (for cars), and other areas.

The shale oil and fracturing technology, drove up the need to 
manufacture oil rigs in the USA.  Those are big projects and structures 
that generate a lot of auxillary machinery orders for winches, steel 
cable, motive power, pumps, hose, couplings, castings, machine shop work 
on oil tools, etc.

Thales, a British aerospace vendor, is moving its radio manufacturing 
production line to the USA after receiving a big contract from the Coast 
Guard to replace every radio in their fleet; cutters, ice breakers, down 
to patrol boats.

The recent friction in Eastern Europe is likely to put the spurs to 
developing the private payloads to orbit missions for supplying the 
International Space Station.  The manned transfer craft may not be 
available from the Russian space agency in a year.

The delay of the Canada to central US pipeline, has engendered growth in 
the two national Railroads of Canada running joint trains into the heart 
of the US and down to the Gulf Coast.  Just as there have been some 
trains with Engines from Mexico coming up into TX.

Even if the remaining unbuilt section of the pipeline gets out of 
Washington red tape, the expansion of oil carriage by train is said to 
be cost competitive by the time you figure that the train tank cars can 
do something the pipeline cannot.  In both carriage schemes, the oil 
must be thinned or diluted.  At the Gulf Coast, the diluent is recycled 
and by train can be sent backwards to Canada for reuse.  And by heating 
the tank cars, (already an existing technology used for syrups), you do 
not have to dilute it as much, as is done for pipeline transport.

There is a good business in making enclosures, especially custom ones.
Check enclosure prices even in surplus outlets.

Stuart Rohre
K5KVH