[PLUG-TALK] Want clear sturdy plastic boxes

[Denis Heidtmann]

How thick are the wafers?  Are wires attached?

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 10:35 PM, Keith Lofstrom <keithl at kl-ic.com> wrote:
> 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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