a lab bench · generated hardware

PCB enclosure for a lab bench

PCB enclosure generated for a lab bench starts at 106 × 66 × 30 mm and 60 g in PA12 + 30% glass fibre — €34 including VAT, delivered in about 8 working days, or €29 if you can wait 38. Heat-set inserts rather than self-tapping screws, because bench equipment is opened dozens of times a year and plastic threads strip after a handful. Fixings on the outside, and enough headroom for a scope probe to reach a test point.

What a lab bench actually demands

Bench hardware gets stacked, unplugged, re-plugged and knocked. It lives among instruments that cost more than a car and it has to be opened regularly by someone wearing gloves.

Heat-set inserts rather than self-tapping screws, because bench equipment is opened dozens of times a year and plastic threads strip after a handful. Fixings on the outside, and enough headroom for a scope probe to reach a test point.

The starting point this page generated

Everything in the specification below was computed, not written. We passed “pcb enclosure sturdy, taller, with more headroom” to the same generator the configurator uses, and this is what came back: a buildable pcb enclosure with every dimension inside the range the partner factory has qualified.

It is a starting point, not a product. Change any parameter in the configurator and the mass, the price, the tolerances and the manufacturability findings all recompute before you order.

Why this one can ship in days

Because the part that carries your dimensions is made by sls 3d printing — a process with no tooling to cut first. A mould would mean weeks before the first part existed; this starts the same day the order does.

General dimensions hold ISO 2768-m, which at this size means ±0.3 mm; the fits that matter carry explicit ISO 286 callouts in the table above. The batch lane makes the same geometry by moulding or nesting it in a production run and sends it by sea: €29 in about 38 working days.

Questions people ask before ordering

Effectively indefinitely. Every fixing runs into a brass heat-set insert, not into the polymer — that is the single difference between an enclosure that survives a lab and one that is glued shut by its third service.