{"id":1680,"date":"2015-02-11T15:33:01","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T15:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/?p=1680"},"modified":"2022-02-18T15:05:16","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T15:05:16","slug":"custom-plastic-enclosures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/guides\/enclosures\/custom-plastic-enclosures","title":{"rendered":"Custom Plastic Enclosures"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>No tooling required plastic enclosure manufacturers<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartboxx.co.uk\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1682\" src=\"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/smartbox.png\" alt=\"smartbox\" width=\"150\" height=\"44\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/smartbox.png 150w, https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/smartbox-60x18.png 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSmartbox offer a very viable alternative to machined off the shelf plastic enclosures.\u00a0 These guys will bend and machine sheet plastic to make fully customized enclosures without the need for any plastic moulds etc.\u00a0 Using different plastic materials and shaped edges you can end up with a really attractive looking enclosure for the same or lower cost than using a nice off the shelf enclosure.\u00a0 Setup costs are not high (very low if you can provide a drawing or model of what you need) and they can manufacture 1off prototypes no problem and then no minimum order quantity production batches.\u00a0 Snap together plastic cases are a bit of a specialty, but screwed together is also no problem for them using threaded metal inserts into blocks of plastic that are welded in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No tooling required plastic enclosure manufacturers Smartbox offer a very viable alternative to machined off the shelf plastic enclosures.\u00a0 These guys will bend and machine sheet plastic to make fully customized enclosures without the need for any plastic moulds etc.\u00a0 Using different plastic materials and shaped edges you can end up with a really attractive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enclosures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1680"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2410,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions\/2410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}