The Intelligence - Day 02
Cutting aluminum u-channel with a Dremel is no picnic, let me tell you. I needed 6 pieces (3 * 5", and 3 * 9 5/8) it probably took a couple hours
And it was dangerous. The metal wants to bind and grab the tool at every moment, and on a few occasions I stopped the Dremel dead for a second. Meh, anyway
cutting some alu bar...
theres the pieces all cut up and filed
test fitting. I levelled the work table then I used an array of levels to see if my plan will work
looking good so far
I basically circumvented the concavity issu by rising T shapes off the center of the case
the left and center bottom bar in this pic is on its side, but the far one (right) it stacked u-down to make up for the 1/8 rise in concavity on that far edge. I think this might actually work
perspective of same angle
t d c...
acceptable tolerances me thinks
the plan is to jbweld those bottom-most beams to the case, then make threaded mounts (holes) thru them, then mount (using screws) the 9 5/8 bars to them, into the final positions. To those the mobo offsets will be tapped and mounted. I have measured the IO port from this position and there is about a 1/4 of play in the vertical so I think i am good to go. Tomr I will need to do some work fixing up the shop with shelving and building a frame stand for a 66 inch table, but I will mess with this a bit more as well. I plan to derivet the p4 case back-face and start to see whats what with the IO port cutout and the pci slots
Thanks for watching
I <3 OCN
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