Now that I have mounted the motherboard tray, it is clear that the entire assembly is to slide in and out of the chassis from the front-side. There were some items that needed some addressing:
- 24-pin ATX cable
- 4/6/8-pin aux cable
- Liquid tubing for the CPU and NB blocks
- Handle for the tray
In the end I decided to attempt to satisfy all these needs with one piece:
In the image below, one can see that the groove for the motherboard is not centered; this is intenional. The recessed t-nut that I am using as a receiver is 1/4" deep, so one side needed to be this thick.
Test-fit with some hardware:
PSU rear panel:
I messed up:
The one on the left is the FUBAR, the one on the right is the newly-made and (so far) error free iteration.... let us hope that it is the last. This is the 2nd or 3rd piece that I have had to go back and make again.
The one on the left was profiled on the wrong side; I needed both the interior surface and the perimeter surface to be profiled on the same side, not opposite sides like the panels for the case.... no biggie... it gave me an opportunity to use the router to make the inside cuts as opposed to the Dremel; the former yields a much cleaner cut than the latter.
Pump Supports:
Here is the inital plan... it may change:
I also spent some time on the front radiator panels this morning, but I will post images of those when it comes time to fit them.
