How to mount a board into a peli case

[Christian]

I would appreciate any advice on how to mount a circuit board etc. (battery ...) into a peli case without having to drill holes into the peli case in order to remain its waterproofnes. Thanks!

Best wishes,

Christian

[hobbes_lives]

Perhaps epoxy some board supports or standoffs to the case?

[Esteban]

You can use small pieces of wood and glued it. Fix with screws the PCB in these pieces of wood. But first you must to made the holes for not to force the glued pieces. The battery holder you can made in same way: calculate the size and made a receptacle (plastic or wood) and also fix this receptacle with glue. Also for this battery holder you can made a cover. Put a small piece of spounge inside the holder for battery for to adjust it and evitate movemente into the holder.

[Fred]

Polyurethane rubber (in cartridges, like silicone) is extremely strong for gluing the standoffs or whatever.

[jwms]

try mounting components to a thin sheet of plywood cut to size. Use double-sided duct tape from the hardware store to stick the board to the inside of the case. We have used the stuff to hold some pretty active equipment down. Works great. Nice thing is with a little bit of effort you can get it back out and reuse the peli case.

[geoscash1]

2 part epoxy and pelican

Regular 2 part epoxy works just fine. You can either epoxy mount directly to the case using stand offs or mount your board with stand offs to a small piece of abs and epoxy the abs to the case. The pelican and otter boxes work well with most all epoxies. Here is an example, I built a video trail cam and used some plastic abs to make shelves and mount a servo inside the case using 2 part epoxy from wally world.
The shelves in this case hold two 6 volt batteries (bout 2 lbs total) and it is still holding solid after 5 yrs, The servo is screwed to a piece of aluminum which is epoxied to the shelf, it takes some good torque switching the camera switch and has never failed or come off.