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- Dec 27, 2008
Been busy the last couple of days with some scrap lumber and other odds and ends around the house so I scabbed together this test bench. Sure beats breadboarding on top of the motherboard box. Frame is made of 1"x2" lumber. Bottom is a leftover piece of shelving board. The video card stabilizer is made from one of those thin paddles the hardware gives you for stirring when you buy paint. If you look close you can see a 120mm fan fastened to the underside of the frame for the purpose of cooling the backside of the VRM/socket area. Notice the small blocks holding the motherboard off the frame to create backside ventilation. The PSU, optical drive and hard disk are stacked on top of one another and secured to the base with zip ties (If McGiver had of had access to zip ties he would have never gotten in to duct tape). The motherboard is held in place by tiny nails whose heads are a bit smaller than the holes which allows for quick installation/removal of the board. It just slips down over the heads of the nails. They're just studs, really that keep the board from shifting on the frame as you attach connectors, chords and such but don't really hold it down with pressure. Finally, I even put little rubber feet underneath the base to prevent the unit from sliding off the table top inadvertently as you are plugging things in.
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