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Our machine shop showed Celtec closed cell PVC foam board to me yesterday.  the 1/4" thickness would slide into the rails or could be inset to pop out. it is light weight and best of all, comes in opaque black.  I will use that for the top of the enclosure to give more clearance for hinges.  I think there are other manufacturers, but it looks to be a better material than plexiglas for enclosures where thicker styrofoam is not wanted.  

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> Hello Gary,
> i used the XE25 from Thorlab to build an enclosure for the LSM710 NLO, i ended up building a giant frame around the whole microscope with a TB4 hardboard at the top and BK5 blackout material around the sides. Works great to block the light, i think all microscope companies should sell enclosures with their instruments. 
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> Make sure that any enclosure is easy to remove for the service to reach the scan head. Mine is made out of two halfs, the front one just pulls out. You can clamp the rails with XE25CL2 to the optical table. 
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> It is a bit difficult to install or remove the incubator which is sometimes used with the mic.
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> I'm nearly done using the XE25 series hardware to construct a heated enclosure 
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> for a widefield imaging system. Filled in the spaces with 1" thick styrofoam 
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> panels popped into place and held with backstops of 1/16" X 1" or 1.5" aluminum 
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> flat stock bolted to the inside.  My doors are being cut right now, lower doors 
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> will bi-fold  to reach in for manual focus, and the main upper door will swing 
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> up, with a covered peep hole for eyepieces.  Buy a box of the Thor SH6M10LP 
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> screws, unless you can find a less expensive industrial source for screws.  The 
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> corners.  otherwise butt the ends together for corners, tapping the end of 1 
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> rail and drilling the other with an M6 clearance hole and a counterbore for the 
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> Craig's 8020 company looks promising, too.
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>> I am designing an optical enclosure to work with a Zeiss 710 NLO
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