Help me find this enclosure type!

I have a mental image of what I need, but totally unable to find what
it's called!
Years ago I used this product. It is simply a two-part system to build
metal enclosures on a PCB. I don't mean an enclosure to put a board
inside, I mean something like an RF shield box on a board.
The first part is a long strip of sheet metal with pins and notches at
regular intervals. You fold it by hand into the desired size, being
careful to match the final size to a standard lid size.
The lid is simply a flat piece of sheet metal with tabs bent down to
form a lid, which squeezes onto "clasps" on the strip.
The strip is soldered to the PCB, and the lid can be installed and
removed by hand.
It was cheap and it looked cheap, but it worked quite well IIRC.
Please someone help me locate these guys again!
TIA

 

[jim dorey]

On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 18:27:42 -0300, <a7yvm109gf5d1@netzero.com> wrote:

I have a mental image of what I need, but totally unable to find what
it's called!
Years ago I used this product. It is simply a two-part system to build
metal enclosures on a PCB. I don't mean an enclosure to put a board
inside, I mean something like an RF shield box on a board.
The first part is a long strip of sheet metal with pins and notches at
regular intervals. You fold it by hand into the desired size, being
careful to match the final size to a standard lid size.
The lid is simply a flat piece of sheet metal with tabs bent down to
form a lid, which squeezes onto "clasps" on the strip.
The strip is soldered to the PCB, and the lid can be installed and
removed by hand.
It was cheap and it looked cheap, but it worked quite well IIRC.
Please someone help me locate these guys again!
TIA

oh, i've seen them in vcr's, but i usually ignored them, i wanted what was
inside, during my part recovery stage of lectronics larnin(bout the same
time that i'd watch fashion telivision regularly, coincidentally).

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