PC Shelf 'Case'
TLDR: I made a shelf for my desk and mounted my PC components on it. Lookit!
Having changed my PC desk a while ago, I've been growing gradually more annoyed at my tattered cardboard PC case sitting as an eye-sore in plain view of the whole living room. The hard drives were hanging loose and the cooler radiator was balanced precariously on top.
After much thought, I decided to add a shelf to my PC desk. That way the PC could be off the floor, and the components could show through the glass desk-top. Fixing a shelf to the metal box-section desk frame would not be easy, but I decided on drilling holes through the frame and bolting the shelf to it.
Making the MDF shelf (with some battening to keep it rigid) was fairly easy. Drilling the holes in the frame was a pain in the backside. I should really invest in some proper drill bits for metal. Eventually, after realising my M4 bolts were too short to fit through the wooden battens, I dug out some M6 bolts, widened the holes in the metal and got the bolts through.
It turned out the holes in the frame were a fair way from being level, which made it a nightmare locating the holes in the battens. Eventually, after much drilling and re-drilling, I had an attached shelf which was approximately level.
By this time, I was tired and cranky so actually mounting the motherboard, etc. to the shelf involved much faffing, un-faffing and re-faffing (like not remembering that the bracket on the graphics card would need to sit in slots cut into the shelf, making me take the mobo back off, cut the slots, then re-mount it before realising the slots I had cut weren't deep enough, etc., etc.)
But it is done! At some point in the near future, I might dig out that set of neons I bought a million years back and see if they still work. :)
Having changed my PC desk a while ago, I've been growing gradually more annoyed at my tattered cardboard PC case sitting as an eye-sore in plain view of the whole living room. The hard drives were hanging loose and the cooler radiator was balanced precariously on top.
After much thought, I decided to add a shelf to my PC desk. That way the PC could be off the floor, and the components could show through the glass desk-top. Fixing a shelf to the metal box-section desk frame would not be easy, but I decided on drilling holes through the frame and bolting the shelf to it.
Making the MDF shelf (with some battening to keep it rigid) was fairly easy. Drilling the holes in the frame was a pain in the backside. I should really invest in some proper drill bits for metal. Eventually, after realising my M4 bolts were too short to fit through the wooden battens, I dug out some M6 bolts, widened the holes in the metal and got the bolts through.
It turned out the holes in the frame were a fair way from being level, which made it a nightmare locating the holes in the battens. Eventually, after much drilling and re-drilling, I had an attached shelf which was approximately level.
By this time, I was tired and cranky so actually mounting the motherboard, etc. to the shelf involved much faffing, un-faffing and re-faffing (like not remembering that the bracket on the graphics card would need to sit in slots cut into the shelf, making me take the mobo back off, cut the slots, then re-mount it before realising the slots I had cut weren't deep enough, etc., etc.)
But it is done! At some point in the near future, I might dig out that set of neons I bought a million years back and see if they still work. :)
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