This was my first mod, I have posted some pics in the modding forum but I thought I would do my little build log. Although I though I was taking lots of photos and of all the right things when I look back through them they don't show alot but I think you'll get the picture If you see what I mean. This was not really built to serve a specific purpose it was just to see if I could do it and to try and make it a bit different from all the rest of the maplin boxes. Maplin box used was the KR57M(P26) Here you can see the TR100 m/b I stripped out a compaq EVO D300v system, it's mounted using 4 16mmx4mm nuts & bolts. Push bolt trough from back the put nut on to act as spacer then put board on then another nut to hold it in place. Between the board and the box I used duct tape as a sort of insulator. Cutting the plate out the back of the box was just done by putting the plate on the m/b and putting it inside the box and marking where the edges wher and transfering these marks to the front, drilled a couple of holes then used a large hacksaw blade on it's own with some duct tape rapped round it to cut out shape. In this photo you can also see a hole with the female kettle socket fitted, all the ones I had seen before where fitted in the standard way so you could see the socket outside the box. I wanted to hide it so just cut a hole big enough for thr kettle plug to go through and mounted the socket inside. Power supply is a bog standard shuttle, this would just fit in but you could not plug into it as it was hard up against edge of box, if you turned it round so the socket was facing the m/b the the atx cables where to short to reach plug on board. ( now know you can get extenders for these). So it had to face the socket towards the box edge, I opened psu to see about modding it then had a brain wave about modding the lead instead to save me doing this, as you can see. Used stanley knife to cut away rubber. fitted Next job was to secure psu thought about drilling holes into it for fixings but it seemed more trouble than it's worth so I made a little enclosure for it from the lid of a smaller maplin box i had. The enclosure is secured to the box by those nuts and bolts again the head of the bolt + a washer giving me the spacer i needed to lift the psu up of the floor of the enclosure so I could sit it on top of m/b slightly this gave me more space a the socket end of the psu so i was not hard up against the edge of the box. Hard drive and dvd/cdrw fitting, just made to plates from the rest of that spare maplin box I had. You will see the left side is slightly higher as this goes to the top edge of the dvd where as the right side has to stop half way up due to the shape of the dvd. It just so happens that the width of the hard drive and the the fixing points on the dvd are almost the same I just had to put a washer inside at each fixing on one side of the hard drive so that the plates where the right distance apart to accept the dvd. The lips of the plates that sit on the box base have slots cut in them so i could slide the assembly back and forth inside the box so I could get the dvd face to line up with the outside of the box. cutting the slot out was just a case of putting the unit inside the box and drawing round the dvd then stripping everthing out driling a couple of holes and cutting it out using that hacksaw blade again. Every thing fixed and in it's place. The lid, as I wanted to make mine different i wanted my fans on the outside and when I seen those ducts I knew thats what I wanted. Did not have the right size of holesaw so as you can see a lot of small holes then the edges cleaned up with a file. The finished item as you can see there is one led on the front this is connected to the spare red & black on the spare foppy power connector, the one and only switch is mounted behind the left fan duct, the led in this is connected to the hard drive activity pins on the m/b you can see the swith in the rear photos. power switch seen glowing to show Hard Drive activity. As you can see using controller I can control fan speed, pitch and hawe ect but due to poor weight distrabution she's a pig to fly. job done
Looking very good, chap... Although you might want to put some fanguards on the fans if you haven't already. You know... just in-case you're vacuuming the room naked, and err.. get you hose caught
no guards needed, live on the edge. Although I will need to keep it out of reach of my 2 1/2 year old son who is sure to want to fix it with his hammer like he does with every thing else even if it don't need fixing.
Looking good. I see you started a new thread after all. In that last pic are you controlling your hover Box or the BMX on the wall.... What temps are you running???
the pic with the led showing at the front looks quit cool as my desktop on my tft as you can see here although thats the back shot but the front looks even better.
i was looking at this post in my computing leson (yep i do no work) and my mate pissed himself laffing at the first one with the scream mask
Maplin boxes rule Interesting space saving idea with the ducts. Very nice indeed Good work, these boxes are pretty hard to fit everything in neatly
