{"id":6856,"date":"2023-05-28T13:43:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-28T03:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/05\/28\/greg-latta-aa8v-on-making-aluminum-chassis-fdim-interview-by-bob-crane-w8sx-2-audio\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:02:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:02:24","slug":"greg-latta-aa8v-on-making-aluminum-chassis-fdim-interview-by-bob-crane-w8sx-2-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/05\/28\/greg-latta-aa8v-on-making-aluminum-chassis-fdim-interview-by-bob-crane-w8sx-2-audio\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg Latta AA8V on Making Aluminum Chassis — FDIM Interview by Bob Crane W8SX #2 (audio)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Our correspondent Bob Crane W8SX caught up with prolific builder Greg Latta AA8V. Greg gave an FDIM talk on how to make aluminum chassis without having a machine shop. I guess I am now going to have to buy a belt sander from Amazon. <\/b><\/p>\n

I was really glad that Greg mentioned his real passion: retro building. FB Greg. I have talked to Greg several times on the ham bands — it is always an inspirational experience. <\/b><\/p>\n

Here is Bob’s interview with Greg: <\/b><\/p>\n

http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/AA8V23.mp3<\/a> <\/b><\/p>\n

Here is Greg’s pdf file on his aluminum chassis construction technique.<\/b><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.frostburg.edu\/personal\/latta\/ee\/chassis\/aluminumchassisconstructionnomovies.pdf <\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

And here is Greg’s amazing web site: <\/b><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.frostburg.edu\/personal\/latta\/index.html<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Thanks Greg! Thanks Bob! <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our correspondent Bob Crane W8SX caught up with prolific builder Greg Latta AA8V. Greg gave an FDIM talk on how to make aluminum chassis without having a machine shop. I guess I am now going to have to buy a belt sander from Amazon. I was really glad that Greg mentioned his real passion: retro … Continue reading “Greg Latta AA8V on Making Aluminum Chassis — FDIM Interview by Bob Crane W8SX #2 (audio)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[228,133,335],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crane-bob","category-hamfests-and-flea-markets","category-metal-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6858,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6856\/revisions\/6858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}