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warnockm · 07-31-2005, 08:57 PM

thanks for all of the tips. I had great success for my first try! I had the glass pre-cut from the glass store. I traced out lines on the paper and cut them out w/ the dremmel using a drill bit. i cut holes and then moved it slowly to cut a line. finally, i went over it w/ the sander disc and smoothed it out. i made one hole for the entire motherboard and one for the connections on the connections on the power supply, but contored it to match every port/connector. I then drilled holes for each screw hole on the MB and epoxied the little motherboard risers. when i connected it, i connected a wire from the ground of the MB to the ground of the PS just as an extra connection. I drilled holes for the holes on the power supply and hard drive. I bought small bolts from Home Depot to attach. i epoxied the thing into a box using 5 peices. i still have to attach the top. i'll probably use a hinge or something. I just took my time and measured a bunch of times. I have a cordless dremmel and used it on speed setting #4 or almost everything. It definately melted a couple times, but you just stop and continue, nothing was damaged by any means. I'm going to keep this in mind for other projects! Quite a success!

07-31-2005, 08:57 PM	#5
warnockm Variable Bitrate Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Virginia Posts: 423	thanks for all of the tips. I had great success for my first try! I had the glass pre-cut from the glass store. I traced out lines on the paper and cut them out w/ the dremmel using a drill bit. i cut holes and then moved it slowly to cut a line. finally, i went over it w/ the sander disc and smoothed it out. i made one hole for the entire motherboard and one for the connections on the connections on the power supply, but contored it to match every port/connector. I then drilled holes for each screw hole on the MB and epoxied the little motherboard risers. when i connected it, i connected a wire from the ground of the MB to the ground of the PS just as an extra connection. I drilled holes for the holes on the power supply and hard drive. I bought small bolts from Home Depot to attach. i epoxied the thing into a box using 5 peices. i still have to attach the top. i'll probably use a hinge or something. I just took my time and measured a bunch of times. I have a cordless dremmel and used it on speed setting #4 or almost everything. It definately melted a couple times, but you just stop and continue, nothing was damaged by any means. I'm going to keep this in mind for other projects! Quite a success! __________________ Progress - VIA EPIA SP8000 \| 120 Opus Power Supply & Case \| 1GB Ram \| 120GB 2.5" Hard Drive \| Bluetooth 2.0 \| GPRS/3G \| Wifi \| Road Runner/LSX 2.0 (waiting for a day skin for 3.0) \| iGuidance 4.0 \| Lilliput 7"