Many SDSV are missing the outer black casing box. Their owners removed them in order to fit the brain into a standard 19″ rack. So if your SDSV brain demands a case, it is rather easy to make one yourself. all you need are two sheet metals, about 0.5mm thick (shouldn’t be much thicker or thinner), width x height = 600x300mm and an appropriate amount of “speaker skin”.
This is my Musicaid SDSV frame serial number #71 when I got it in 2010. Click here to read more about the restoration of the electronics.
I got the metal sheets (made of stainless steel) from a local metalworker. He also bended the sheets for me. This picture shows an experimental stage with blue pushbuttons and the blank stainless steel case screwed to the brain.
Cutting the skin. It should protude about 5-10mm on every side because it will be wrapped around the sheet edges
glueing the skin onto the sheets. Take care that there are no air or glue bubbles under the skin
the top of the case. Both parts have the same size
The holes which had been drilled into the sheets before. After the skin is glued I burned the holes with an old soldering iron through the plastic
now both parts are screwed to the frame. Doesn’t look too bad?!
the bottom brain has an original case, the top one is the self made. The parts for the case cost about 25-50 Euro. And today, after 3 years, my old fubar Musicaid brain looks like a new one again