Butcher's Hook - Day 10 - All your base are belong to us
um, dilemma? not enough room for stuff methinks...
as enthusiasts we'll make due with whats available right? The mobo plate will be suspended, but in the pic I had to stack it to see if the idea is even feasible.
if the owner of this case wants an optical drive they can stick it somewhere
Plan from here: no optical drive (or concern of it)
lets make an hdd mount
marked off holes
drill outs with 9/64" (lets 6-32 pass thru clean)
after I test fitted the holes to the drive they were off a "shade"
. In this pic, in the long direction, they were off by a 16th or so, so I decided to overbore the holes to 3/16 from 9/64...
during this endeavor I dropped the bottle of tapping fluid, and it shot all over the place, including on me. Luckily I had glasses on. Here's the mess. The bottle didnt break, luckily. cleaned it all up and opened the garage door, and cranked the fan - tap fluid sucks to smell and deal with, aside from that, its great
back to business
mounted the hdd in the mount (where else would it be mounted
) and aligned it to the frame
clamped the mount to the frame
after the mount was tight and in good position I removed the drive
welding time
this pic is like
this pic is like
and this pic is just stupid
I tried to tack the corners with 1/16" stick at lowered amps, and had all kinds of problems. at the end of the day, it came back to 5/64 at 100 amps (when in doubt, cook that son of a...
ugly welds but when grinded and repaired it should be cool, plus its a hidden section
there she am
I didnt mount the psu because I want to double-check some specs. more soon
thanks for watching
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