Well, the rack is done and I’m actually rather chuffed with it all 
In total it’s probably taken me about 10 hours and I’m not starting to think/feel if I could put this level of dedication into my course, well a first might not be an unrealistic goal. Somehow, in the last week I’ve managed to find all this time to make a box, now I just need to do that for programming.
Anyway, as I said I’m fairly chuffed with it. I ordered the original shell, which included the rails but everything else I had to make myself. So that’s a removable back with a gap for cables and ventilation, proper front door with a window to see all the flashing lights and moving the rails back 90mm to fit the cable management bar in. Ooh and painting the whole thing, 2 white layers of undercoat and a shiny blue for the outside and just a clean white for the inside.
I’ll post some photo’s this evening, sadly only from my phone, I’ve got a feeling I’ve left my camera in Kita’s handbag, well I hope it’s there :S
Dan
12th April 2008
12:56 am
Rate my rack?
I reckon 6.5 to 7 out of 10. Good efort.
FWIW I’ve been trying to set up a dual boot with Mandriva 2008 on an IDE drive and keeping my XP separate on the SATA drive. Success has no yet be enjoyed.