Sven
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If you can't find the right one, make your own after making a mold. Decided to go this route for the PI detector I built for land-beach use.
Made a quick balsa wood, glued it onto a flat board sprayed with primer and a glossy paint. Built a rinky dink dam around the box to contain the molding material
to be poured.
Mixed up some silicone rubber molding compound and poured it in. Since the rubber is flexible, after it had cured, filled the remainder of the mold with epoxy that has been sitting around a number of years.This would keep the rubber mold confined and rigid when it came time to make the control box.
After everything cured, I let the mold sit for a week. Then proceeded to lay up my first box using epoxy resin and fiberglass cloth. No mold release required when using a silicone rubber mold.
When the epoxy cured to the point of being stiff, within several hours of laying up the box, excess cloth was cut flush with the mold using a sharp medical scaple blade.
The first box came out pretty nice. Sprayed it with automotive Duplicolor primer and paint.
Have to say working with the silicone rubber and epoxy resin indoors was no problem. Both were for the most part odorless.
Made a quick balsa wood, glued it onto a flat board sprayed with primer and a glossy paint. Built a rinky dink dam around the box to contain the molding material
to be poured.
Mixed up some silicone rubber molding compound and poured it in. Since the rubber is flexible, after it had cured, filled the remainder of the mold with epoxy that has been sitting around a number of years.This would keep the rubber mold confined and rigid when it came time to make the control box.
After everything cured, I let the mold sit for a week. Then proceeded to lay up my first box using epoxy resin and fiberglass cloth. No mold release required when using a silicone rubber mold.
When the epoxy cured to the point of being stiff, within several hours of laying up the box, excess cloth was cut flush with the mold using a sharp medical scaple blade.
The first box came out pretty nice. Sprayed it with automotive Duplicolor primer and paint.
Have to say working with the silicone rubber and epoxy resin indoors was no problem. Both were for the most part odorless.
from my experience making hundreds similar projects I am learn to make very simple and ugly , because projects never stops 
, I think you can very confidently use your balsa wood box or just cover it with epoxy.
