[PLUG-TALK] Want clear sturdy plastic boxes

[Keith Lofstrom]

Way, way off topic.

I have about twenty 5 inch solar cells, unmounted, currently sitting
in a styrofoam tray.  Fragile as hell.  I would like to find 20 very
stiff transparent plastic boxes for them.  Ideally, the boxes would
have inside dimensions of just over 5 inches square, and perhaps a
quarter inch thick.  Something that clamshells open like a "crystal"
CD package would be nice, but those are about half an inch too short
on one side.  Surfaces must be smooth; dremelling down a DVD case
would leave too many stress points unless I could polish it very 
flat.

Since this is about the size of the old 5 1/4 inch floppies (original
PC floppies), perhaps somebody has some hard boxes for those in their
junk heap.   One of the hinged 10-pack cases, with lots of padding,
sorta-kinda works.

I may end up getting some 5 inch square plastic mounts cut at Tap
Plastics, and store the cells adhesively attached to those.  However,
I will be doing things like hitting them with radiation from a 
cobalt 60 source, and I will need to try doses from both sides, as
well as doing 200C anneals.  Plastic would get in the way of that.

Any other ideas? 

Keith

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