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QCX mini Template

 

Hi gang,
I am not planing to cheat Hans on his wonderfull case for the QCX mini, just because I am so penny-wise that I do not buy his tight-fit-far-east creation, but I need a custom enclosure to fit both some LiPos and maybe even a tuner of sorts.
Does anybody have a template for me to drill the front plat knobs? Yes, I could measure them out, but by experience, measured twice, cut thrice and still too short.. am humbly asking for advice.
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NO! I do NOT intend or even try to drive towards some of those new age crapy 3D prints. I already have a aluminium box that would fit, given the right holes punched trough it's roof. This is where a template would help.

Having the same for QCX+ and the old QCX standart would also help: I have some exemplares built and peacefully living in some chocolate-candy boxes still longing for a case I could punch out of some aluminium scrap if I would know where to put the drill.

Hoping for help! Thanks es 73!
Razvan DL2ARL
 

You could use a "new age crapy 3D print" as a template for the cutting.?

Also Hans has printed the display outline on the PCB's :??which allows easy taking over the location.
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73 Lex PH2LB?
 

Hi and thank you very much for the advices, but none help.
What a crapy 3D print is, is and remains a mistery to me.
The link you sent shows the photograph of an original QCX and even if this would have helped (it woult have not, because I can take a foto myself, but this will loose the scale)
I am in search of a template for the QCX mini.

What I might do: I might purchase a QCX mini case, put it on top of? a xerox machine in the next copy-shop, make a 1:1 copy of it's frontplate and have the template I need to punch trough while drilling those poor couple of holes and the window for the display.

And then: ......yess!..... Then I'll wait behind the corner until the next far east shortage comes and sell the unused NOS case for an insane price and reinvest the money earned in a multi-billion-dollar template making company.?

Yessss! That's me, or at least the faint shadow of the businesman my parents might have wanted to have for a son.

73, Razvan dl2arl
 

Hello Razvan

The drilling template for the older QCX was already on the QCX page for some years, see and scroll down.?

I have added the drawings for the QCX-mini and QCX+ at the bottom of their respective web pages?see and

73 Hans G0UPL



On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 1:58 AM DL2ARL <dl2arl@...> wrote:
Hi gang,
I am not planing to cheat Hans on his wonderfull case for the QCX mini, just because I am so penny-wise that I do not buy his tight-fit-far-east creation, but I need a custom enclosure to fit both some LiPos and maybe even a tuner of sorts.
Does anybody have a template for me to drill the front plat knobs? Yes, I could measure them out, but by experience, measured twice, cut thrice and still too short.. am humbly asking for advice.
?
NO! I do NOT intend or even try to drive towards some of those new age crapy 3D prints. I already have a aluminium box that would fit, given the right holes punched trough it's roof. This is where a template would help.

Having the same for QCX+ and the old QCX standart would also help: I have some exemplares built and peacefully living in some chocolate-candy boxes still longing for a case I could punch out of some aluminium scrap if I would know where to put the drill.

Hoping for help! Thanks es 73!
Razvan DL2ARL

 

P.S. to be clear - these drawings are OK to be used if you want to make 3D printed enclosures or your own enclosures for your own project involving your own QCX-mini, QCX+ etc. But NOT to be used for any kind of mass production or commercial use to make competing enclosures :-)

73 Hans G0UPL



On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 12:26 PM Hans Summers via <hans.summers=[email protected]> wrote:
Hello Razvan

The drilling template for the older QCX was already on the QCX page for some years, see and scroll down.?

I have added the drawings for the QCX-mini and QCX+ at the bottom of their respective web pages?see and

73 Hans G0UPL



On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 1:58 AM DL2ARL <dl2arl@...> wrote:
Hi gang,
I am not planing to cheat Hans on his wonderfull case for the QCX mini, just because I am so penny-wise that I do not buy his tight-fit-far-east creation, but I need a custom enclosure to fit both some LiPos and maybe even a tuner of sorts.
Does anybody have a template for me to drill the front plat knobs? Yes, I could measure them out, but by experience, measured twice, cut thrice and still too short.. am humbly asking for advice.
?
NO! I do NOT intend or even try to drive towards some of those new age crapy 3D prints. I already have a aluminium box that would fit, given the right holes punched trough it's roof. This is where a template would help.

Having the same for QCX+ and the old QCX standart would also help: I have some exemplares built and peacefully living in some chocolate-candy boxes still longing for a case I could punch out of some aluminium scrap if I would know where to put the drill.

Hoping for help! Thanks es 73!
Razvan DL2ARL

 

Also, the PCBs have soldering pads to allow you to place the controls anywhere you want in your enclosure. You can be very creative if you want your own layout.??
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73, Dan - W2DLC
 

Thanks Hans, I found them now and the drawings are perfect for my needs!
Wish you all the best 73, Razvan DL2ARL?

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