The Intelligence - Day 23
mixed a batch of evercoat and continued on the pinhole filling mission...
Time to get the mobo pan mountings done. I toyed with several ideas over the past few weeks, all of which ending up either making no sense or being too complicated for their own good. In the end I decided to employ the KIS,S rule (like we do when coding) Keep It Simple, Stupid.
With that in mind, I decided to ignore the predrilled holes and place my own where they made the most sence. There will be 5 screws holding in the pan on the back, but there are also 3 screws that go thru the pan into the main rails (below mobo) so I think it will be plenty sturdy
ended up not using this hole
a quick test fit prior to drilling
needed a square lip edge for drilling these holes
drilled out the upper and lower left holes, and the upper third from left, it wont be used tho, as youll see
on that right tab the upper and lower were drilled and will be used, not the stock one in the lower center
now that I had the holes in the pan I used it as a guide to drill the case. clamped like an sob so as not to slip, one chance at these or its epic fail
win right side upper and lower
win left side, both (2) upper, and 1 lower left
all unused holes will be filled or the tab will be cut off
after that I decided to get busy on the psu exhaust duct idea. thats an MNPCTECH.com 80mm fan duct about to get butchered by a hack-saw (never again, dremel next time)
ok so the idea was to make a square corner fence to mount on the scroll saw, and trim back the duct lip...
for perspective...
mounted guide on the saw
sorry for the blurry pic but thats the guide behind the blade. the idea is to push the cylinder back into the blade, then use the guide to simply rotate the cylinder, to trim off some of the lip in a clean circle. It was working at first...
then I noticed some badness, so I stopped and had a look
turns out the L-Bracket wasnt flush with the saw table so the lip was sliding under. I tried adding a second L on the other side and flipping the guide, but the same thing happened. I still think the idea will work but tomr I will make a better guide. For now chalk this attempt into the epic fail column
as the evening fell I decided to touch up the hinges with some more black. for some reason the rounded parts of them wigged out and turned a ghastly grey (like in the over-exposed pics from last night - yet they were pure black when snapped pics, odd) Anyway I think I may have went too fast during speed painting last night. For now I shot 2 or 3 coats of black on them again, but skipped the clear until I see how they look in the morning...
resume tomr
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