wooden motherboard tray

ok, woods really easy to work with. i need to make multiple motherboard trays, and i was thinking why not use some wood i have laying around?

for the standoff screws, since wood isnt conductive, can i just get some bolts and nuts and bolt it through the wood to the motherboard?

You could, but you need to be careful of pressure, the bottom of a board isn't flat, and it would be really easy to damage something by overtightening. A simple way to avoid that would be to put some kind of spacer around the screw between the board and the wood.

Like a rubber washer

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Originally Posted by Trace

Like a rubber washer

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Or nylon

You can buy a length of nylon tubing at the hardware store for a few cents and use a razor blade to cut as many spacers as you need in whatever length you need them.

oooh nylon ;)

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Originally Posted by blueonblack

You can buy a length of nylon tubing at the hardware store for a few cents and use a razor blade to cut as many spacers as you need in whatever length you need them.

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But you'd have to make sure you get them the right size. You could do that or nylon or rubber washers.

I been in woods class for years...and WOOD MOVES AND WARPS...unless you use nasty chems...so plz use nast chems!

Most finish-grade plywood is very stable, with no need for "nasty chems".

Deskpooter is made of wood .. hasn't warped in three years or so :)

I nail a smaller hole and then hammer the stock mobo hexagonal 'legs' into the wood. They usually stick nicely. But that's for horizontal placement

I've used wood for a motherboard tray before also and I just used actual standoff screws threaded into pilot holes drilled in the board. They held great.