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Old 25th Mar 2014, 11:25 am   #68
G6Tanuki
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Default Re: Improvising with Household Items.

Over the weekend the handle broke off my kitchen sieve. I was going to throw it away until I realised the sieve-mesh was stainless-steel.

Now, two sections of repurposed sieve serve as cooling-fan inlet- and outlet-grilles on a QQV06/40A linear amplifier. OK, they may provide a bit of an impediment to the airflow but more importantly the prevent fingers, animal-fur and the like getting in, and RF getting out.

[Stainless-steel mesh is tinsnips-ruiningly-hard to cut though: I ended up using a cold-chisel, a steel block, and a lump-hammer].
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