Project: Firefox

[Ta10n]

Okay another update on the project, we have started building the hard drive mount and it looks pretty good so far. It just needs to be drilled and frost sanded. Have a look.

And this is the hole we cut in the back of the motherboard tray for extra ventilation

And the sleeved ATX power connector. And yes I did try using real sleeving first, but the damn connector wouldn't come off .

Oh look another sacrifice! Freshly discarded from my brothers AM2 build .

Oh and if you have any comments, concerns, questions, or ideas please mention them!

[Airbozo]

The sleeving issue triggered a memory of having to bundle cables (while the system was on!) on a mainframe _many_ years ago. Back in the day, we did not have access to heat shrink tubing since it was mainly in industrial use only or tie wraps (not invented yet?). so we used flat cloth tape (about 1/8" thick) to wrap cables. Normally we would just use a simple hitch knot (http://www.realknots.com/knots/hitches.htm) about every half inch along the cable. It would tighten up the cable and was fairly easy to do and looked pretty good too. Just a thought...

Also I know there is an "open" heat shrink sleeve for just the issue you had. You just wrap it around the cable, tuck in the folds and the heat gun activates some adhesive and then shrinks the cable.

Man you guys trigger some of the strangest memories...

[simon275]

Oh look another sacrifice! Freshly discarded from my brothers AM2 build .

Can't wait to see what happens to this poor unsuscpecting heatsink looking back at what happened to the last one. =D Nice work man. Whats the point of cutting the hole in the back of you mobo tray?

[xpc]

Project Blackout?? hmmm.. If you know tribaloverkill his project named also "Blackout" check it on Featured Worklog

[M2k3]

Whats the point of cutting the hole in the back of you mobo tray?

One reason is for extra venting, and the other is so we can route wires back there and make the case look nice and clean.

Project Blackout?? hmmm.. If you know tribaloverkill his project named also "Blackout" check it on Featured Worklog

Uh oh. Ta10n and I will definitly have to check into that, Ta10n chose the name becuase we were going to paint the case black. I don't think he knew another project existed with the same name.

[GT40_GearHead]

dude what HDD is thar

[M2k3]

dude what HDD is that

We don't know much about the HDD. What we do know is that it is a Hitachi, it's a SCSI, it's noisy and it's as thick as two floppy drives stacked together. That's about it. I think Ta10n knows the exact size in GB it is but I don't think we even figured out what speed it is. Ta10n was thinking it might be a 10K RPM drive.

[GT40_GearHead]

i think you should use that, i'm shure i've heard of scsi to SATA or pATA

[M2k3]

i think you should use that, i'm shure i've heard of scsi to SATA or pATA

We are using that and we also have a PCI SCSI card. No adapters needed.

[GT40_GearHead]

the only thing about that hdd that could be aded to this conversation is this:
that sh!t is big