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If anyone is interested this is how I recently housed my Elvis to protect it from harm;
I bought a black project box from Maplin that is just a bit wider than the Elvis and a fair bit longer.
Then, I glued the four rubber feet to the 'lid' of the box using normal superglue (carefully).
Next, I place the box back over the Elvis and marked a couple of notches on one side for the serial socket. Then I got a small hacksaw blade to make a nice neat hole for the socket to poke through (checking for placement as I went). Repeated the same process on the other side towards the back to get the power cable through (if you use an adapter).
Finally the trickiest part - the slot! To do this I put a card into the Elvis, and swivelled the box next to the corner of the lid to find out where the card slot should be. This took a few trial and error type marks with the hacksaw blade, but eventually I got it. Then using a gas hob and a large screwdriver (but a soldering iron would probably have worked too) I melted the slot through the plastic, giving a little extra either sides and top and bottom (but not too much).
To finish it off, all you need to do is screw the lid to the box and that's it. Total cost 2.50 ish and total time about 30 minutes.
I bought a black project box from Maplin that is just a bit wider than the Elvis and a fair bit longer.
Then, I glued the four rubber feet to the 'lid' of the box using normal superglue (carefully).
Next, I place the box back over the Elvis and marked a couple of notches on one side for the serial socket. Then I got a small hacksaw blade to make a nice neat hole for the socket to poke through (checking for placement as I went). Repeated the same process on the other side towards the back to get the power cable through (if you use an adapter).
Finally the trickiest part - the slot! To do this I put a card into the Elvis, and swivelled the box next to the corner of the lid to find out where the card slot should be. This took a few trial and error type marks with the hacksaw blade, but eventually I got it. Then using a gas hob and a large screwdriver (but a soldering iron would probably have worked too) I melted the slot through the plastic, giving a little extra either sides and top and bottom (but not too much).
To finish it off, all you need to do is screw the lid to the box and that's it. Total cost 2.50 ish and total time about 30 minutes.