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I ended up building one for my college-bound
nephew, complete with a 450mHz G3 processor, 256MB
ram, an ATI Radeon 7000 video card, a 20GB HD, an
Adaptec 2930 SCSI card, and dual optical drives, a
CD-R/W and a DVD-ROM (tho DVD playback doesn't work
so hot with the flashed PC R7K.)
The second optical required cutting away some of
the case face, plus chopping some inside sheet
metal. I fabbed an L-shaped bracket to support the
right-hand sides of the opticals, the bracket
attached with pop-rivets to the optical bay
'floor'. The heatsink just clears the added optical
bracket though I had to trim the bracket a bit in
the process.
I made a faceplate from a scrap PCB stripped of
its components with a heat gun. It was nearly the
right size and seemed to fit the theme of the box.
I trimmed it to fit and punched holes into it for
the original front buttons. I drilled out the IC
that covers the speaker and then soldered it back
on. The face-PCB is stuck on with double-sided foam
tape. As for feet, I have some nice self-adhesive
BHF (Big Honkin' Feet(tm)) which I stuck to the
bottom.
I didn't get to finish it as completely as I'd
have liked. I had made only the one handle (from SS
tubing) but had no time left to make another. Also,
I had envisioned some sort of faces for the
opticals, fabbed from some more old stripped PCB
'stock'. Just didn't get around to it before the
kid took it away to school.
Yeah, I know this pic sucks, but in the rush to
get it out the door I didn't have time for anything
fancy.
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