neilhart
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- Joined
- May 25, 2010
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- Motherboard
- ASRock Fatal1ty Z270 Gaming - ITX/ac
- CPU
- i7-7700T
- Graphics
- GTX960
- Mac
- Mobile Phone
Weekly update -
Last Sunday I had a little set back where my table saw kicked a sheet metal bracket piece back at me. I was cut and bleeding from both thumbs and two fingers on my left hand. Not much pain but enough blood to get my wife all worked up and pressing me to go to the emergency room. However I washed up and applied a good number of "bandaids" and took it easy the rest of the day.
I did make some progress this week.
Finished the brackets to mount the Icy Dock unit to the plate that sits on top of the modded PSU.
Then finished cutting the motherboard mounting plate and mounting brackets to secure it to the top of the Icy Dock unit.
Then cut the motherbaord IO access hole in the rear plate.
Added the standoffs to the MB mounting plate and a clearance cut for the tang of a GPU.
And cut the GPU access slot in the read plate.
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Next up is locating and cutting the window hole for the latch lever followed by a circular cutout for a 120 mm rear exhaust fan (or 120 mm AIO water cooler rad).
I have the front portion of the core set aside for the moment. I am seriously considering a mod that would remove the front panel power switch and IO ports from this panel. With this mod I would patch the front panel switch area with Apple mesh salvaged from previous projects.
That would then drive me to go ahead and finalize my idea for a right side control panel. More on that at another time.
Good modding,
neil
Last Sunday I had a little set back where my table saw kicked a sheet metal bracket piece back at me. I was cut and bleeding from both thumbs and two fingers on my left hand. Not much pain but enough blood to get my wife all worked up and pressing me to go to the emergency room. However I washed up and applied a good number of "bandaids" and took it easy the rest of the day.
I did make some progress this week.
Finished the brackets to mount the Icy Dock unit to the plate that sits on top of the modded PSU.
Then finished cutting the motherboard mounting plate and mounting brackets to secure it to the top of the Icy Dock unit.
Then cut the motherbaord IO access hole in the rear plate.
Added the standoffs to the MB mounting plate and a clearance cut for the tang of a GPU.
And cut the GPU access slot in the read plate.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Next up is locating and cutting the window hole for the latch lever followed by a circular cutout for a 120 mm rear exhaust fan (or 120 mm AIO water cooler rad).
I have the front portion of the core set aside for the moment. I am seriously considering a mod that would remove the front panel power switch and IO ports from this panel. With this mod I would patch the front panel switch area with Apple mesh salvaged from previous projects.
That would then drive me to go ahead and finalize my idea for a right side control panel. More on that at another time.
Good modding,
neil