Working on radio chassis.

[Yorkie]

Fixture?
Rob.

The are always holes on chassis to which brackets can be screwed as required. If you look at the example I posted above, you'll see two brackets which secured the chassis into the cabinet. I just popped a couple of screws through the holes already in the brackets and screwed then to the inside of the stand.

Think how awkward it is to work on the ubiquitous DAC90A perched upside down to replace all the caps, and any other repair work, with the risk of damaging such items as the aerial coil. A stand on which to fix the upturned chassis makes life so much easier, but I doubt that many bother to do that - just have it 'wibbly wobbly' perched on whatever happens to be to hand.

Although we're 'amateurs' it doesn't mean we need to be unprofessional, just that we do it as a hobby - not as a means of earning a living, so we don't have the same time pressures.

I guess it depends on what workshop facilties and materials we have. I know of someone locally who lives with his elderly parents, and who has to use his bed as a workbench, kneeling on the floor to work on radios perched on a sheet of hardboard on the bed, with a few tools in a box under his bed. Hardly conducive to fancy embelishments in working practices.

David.