My "murder" project.

[charles_h]

Thanks for the comments Guys.

and what's this plexi thing all about?...

All will be revealed... in time.

Hey Charles, don't know if you consider it a trade secret or anything , but how did you get the juncture box and metal L brackets to stick without screws? It can't be tape. . .

Sorry for taking so long to respond, I’ve been utterly swamped this past week.

I must say that what we’ve settled on to secure the faceplate brackets has as Nils said, come only after a massive amount of research an effort. For that reason we’re going to keep that to ourselves for the time being.

I can tell you what didn’t work if that’s any consolation.

The challenge is a result of the thickness of the faceplate – it’s too thick to bend and not thick enough to tap threads into. That being said, we’re not interested in changing the thickness because we’re happy with how it looks. The other issue is the optical drive door mechanism and the space it requires.

One test involved welding threaded studs to the back and securing brackets with nuts. This concept failed because the heat of the flash weld altered the molecular structure of the aluminum, resulting in discolored areas on the anodized front face. The discolored area was around the weld stud and was only noticed in two locations on 3 faceplate samples and only visible at certain angles. Never the less, this was obviously unacceptable. The next concept involved two part metal epoxy. While the tensile strength was satisfactory, failures came as a result of static shear. It was amazing really, you could pry on the bracket with a pair of pliers for all your worth and never pull one off yet just the slight constant or “static” load of a pound or two over time caused a few of the test samples to fail… and by fail I mean fall off.

The ultimate solution involved a mounting system that successfully absorbed static load while providing satisfactory shear resistance and permitting space for the optical drive door mechanism.

I’m sorry I’m not able to fully answer your question. I try to be as forthright as I can in sharing information about the way I do things. A few things however, we feel the need to keep to ourselves, at least for the time being. I hope you can understand why.

Charles, do you take Kidneys as payment?

No but I could use an extra arm - that way I wouldn't have to lean the light reflector card on my head when I take pics.

just the perfect case awesom work
but why not use a quad radiator?

The build was using hardware that Fried Chicken already had.

Cheers.