Jack Coats wrote: > If you get a little brave, design a smaller case that is more > appropriate. Wood is good! > Put a good fan or two in it with filters, and keep a 'positive pressure' > in the case. This will > keep much of the dust/dirt/chips out. >
Personally I wouldn't go for wood - metal provides better grounding and electrical noise immunity. But Jack's idea in general is a good one. PC cases aren't some mystical black art. Just hack away at it till you have something you like. A couple examples - for my own machine, I chopped up a large tower case into something much smaller: http://jmkasunich.dyndns.org/cgi-bin/blosxom/shoptask/pc-cased-and-mounted-12-14-07.html On the Mazak that we retrofitted at the CNC workshop, all the computer parts are simply mounted to a flat plate, which we attached to the inside of the cabinet door as you can see in this photo, to the left of Dave Engvall's head: http://fenn.freeshell.org/retrofest/dcp_0366.jpg The strange blue glow in the upper left corner is from the tacky blue LED fan on the power supply. Regards, John Kasunich ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
