[Silver]

Nothing special. Wife wants the comps up and to appease the commander I have been constructing this folding box. Should look like a piece of furniture of sorts while proving to be functional. Premium wood (home depots cheapest stuff - 98 cent) was used in its construction. I am by no means a carpenter and am doing the best I can with the experience and tools available. Pics that follow are pretty self explanatory and hopefully will serve all that have requested to see it either in public or by e-mail. I shall post as the work progresses towards completion. And with no further ado, the pics.

[Silver]

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One more:

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The door already stained and lacquered w/ ceo QC check.

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And a closer look at one pane of the door.

[Silver]

Run down on it. Cross air flow sucking air out of the case. Reason, less noise and equalized pressure across the filter face. Fans are located so as to supply air flow across ram, heat sink and mofsets as well as aid in pulling air out of case at heatsink exit. Psu will aid in hd cooling. Filters are standard furnace 16 x 20 from first layer to top layer. Not visible in the pics is the right side hold down for the filters. Left side hold down is fixed. Case is on casters. All fan grills are black and will be installed at the end. Black grills are intended to tone down the function of the case as it is in the living room. Filters are on the right side as the case will be located on the right side of the room and this obscures them from view. Given the surface area and number of fans the living room should be pretty dust free. Filters are cheap, readily available in a number of flavors and easily changed out not to mention allowing for tremendous filter surface area. Each layer slides out for servicing. Each layer will have a momentary switch located on the individual boards layer in order to further eaze layer slide out access. Case without caster is 72" tall with layers at 7". I presently have 6 boxes folding with 2 on standby for the new case. One will stay in the boys room so the case will start with 7 layers occupied leaving room for 3 folders. Fans are all 28db due to the potential for extreme noise and I will adjust this accordingly. One does not generally sleep in the livingroom but one does desire to watch tv. I do need to drop another breaker/outlet or two to support the power requirements of the case. Cost will be just under $100 completed. Mostly due to hardware, stain and lacquer. Sanded the case with 60 grit today, installed the glass panes in the door and did a little more filler work. Tommorow, temperature dependant, I will sand 150, 220 and possibly stain. If it is too cold then the case may be on hold till the next warmish day. Take Care one and all.

[pscout]

lookin' good

Are you planning 1 layer per shelf? Lots of layers!

[Silver]

Yes on the one layer per. I have however sized them so that I think dual micros and or larger mobos could be installed on each layer as the need arises. After all, a case should be designed so as to accomadate (sp) 40Ghz of folding power, No?

[godofgorks]

30 fans + psu and cpu fans...

it's a double duo, folder and dust vacumn!!!!

looking sweet silver

Pases my QC too....

[godofgorks]

Originally Posted by Silver

After all, a case should be designed so as to accomadate (sp) 40Ghz of folding power, No?

QFT!!!!!!

[WarriorII]

Very nice.

-whats up with the shelves?







Thier straight and level.


Good job!

[Mark620]

What, only 10 shelves & 10 Powersupplies (500 watts each).
BTW what are you going to feed that with...5000 watts is close to 42 amps...

[Silver]

Originally Posted by WarriorII

Very nice.

-whats up with the shelves?







Thier straight and level.


Good job!

Photography department is under funded.

[Silver]

Originally Posted by Mark620

What, only 10 shelves & 10 Powersupplies (500 watts each).
BTW what are you going to feed that with...5000 watts is close to 42 amps...

Been getting away with 380s on some of them. At any rate am dropping two lines from the fuse box. Does kind of explain why some might be a little upset about work load distribution.

Ah heck, double post.

[Mr.DLucey]

Hey really that looks really nice, you do high quality work thats for sure!

[Joe Camel]

WOW

EXCELLENT work!!!

thats going to be one beautiful electric heater/air purifier!!


PS keep an eye out for bowing from the front of the sides; as the weight builds up, the side posts may start to deflect, you might want a cross-brace somewhere near the middle for support. although, with as little weight as there is, this might not become a problem.
(i build filing cabinets @ work, 50+ lbs per drawer x7 drawers...10x computers arnt going to come to more than 1x drawer)

[ghettocomp]

Give Oreck a run for the money!!

Like I said in another thread, you can always tell the serious folders by the box they keep. that is looking great so far.

[Silver]

Can't really see it but each corner is 2 - 1 x 2's butted like an L. Hopefully that will aid in preventing bowing. Would not have been a big deal during construction to have tied the rail supports on a middle layer together for added support. Could have done it on the same plane and in line with a door pane support so as to hide it. Alas, retrospect....I shall hopefull be fine though given weight will not be that extreme. Psu's are designed to be mounted to the exterior skin further distributing the weight. Worst part is that I have really no wood working experience so am shooting from the hip. I was very dissapointed with the finish on the door after the first two coats of lacquer so not knowing what to do I sanded lightly (w/220 grit) the lacquer which made it look horrible then added two more coats of lacquer and what do you know, looks darn near professional. Must be the folding cause keeping a guiding hand on me.

Oh Joe, its going to the garage in the summer. I will not pay another year of heating the house to cool it during the summer. Now in the winter it is a nice heating system keeping the livingroom, dining room and kitchen rather comfortable and not adding a great deal to the heating bill (heater hardly ever comes on). Summer will be another story. Speaking of which how about a roughly 9 x 9 room (sons) with summer room temps of 85f possible being cooled by a evap system located outside with sealed rad and 120 fan or two blowing into room with intake for the 120's located in the room? Seems it ought to be able to handle a 8 to 10c drop in the room and making the room comfortable at a cost of very little. Just a thought. Then there is the solar hot water heater I'll probable take on this year. One thing a time, stay focused, folding box first or it will not get finished.

[WarriorII]

You could throw in a couple of "L" bracket on the inside of those 2-1x2's to help the bow effect. (just incase)

Very nice Silver.

[Silver]

Originally Posted by WarriorII

You could throw in a couple of "L" bracket on the inside of those 2-1x2's to help the bow effect. (just incase)

Very nice Silver.

Back sheeting is 1/4 in ply so not much there. L shaped 1 x 2s are glued and nailed so really four of them will have to bow at the same time. Lacquer should aid in reducing air/moisture content, the box will fold and it will not bow, so says CEO (wife). She really does not want to see any more ugly boxes in the livingroom.

[Joe Camel]

each corner is 2 - 1 x 2's butted like an L

yup, missed that...you should be golden with the weights your dealing with.

keep up the GREAT work

[TIS]

man that looks nice - i would guess that you will have cooling problems though - thats a lot of computers in a small space... would love to see some pics in operation.

[LandShark]

looks great!! and awesome creation you did!! plus 10 layers?? be sure to keep us info as it progress....!!

I've just received the fans and stuffs for my crunching cabinet this morning, hopfully I'll have the cabinet finished tomorrow evening!!

[Silver]

Originally Posted by TIS

man that looks nice - i would guess that you will have cooling problems though - thats a lot of computers in a small space... would love to see some pics in operation.

There is over 120cfm coming through each layer. Though not ideal (one has to take sound into consideration), I would guess the cooling to be adequate if not supperior for a box of this size. Air is from the right through filters to exit on the left thereby several feet away in the opposite direction. Cool incoming air would be on the left side of the case and virtually unrestricted. It exits directly above and around the cpu. One of the real issues for me of course was the filtering of the incoming air as can air usage on the six computers I have now is getting a little out of hand. Effective, cheap filtering with good air flow characteristics was important to me. The two exterior boxes I built gave me excellent results by pulling so I decided to go the pulling route on the layers so as to keep sound levels within reason while being as effective as I could be cost/performance/sound. I sincerely hope and believe there will be no serious cooling issues. In fact I expect better results than my present cases due to the lack of immediate dust pickup effectively rendering my present cooling solutions less than ideal within a short period.

Total case flow is 1200 cfm, filter surface (intake area) is 1,120 inches.

[Silver]

Originally Posted by LandShark

looks great!! and awesome creation you did!! plus 10 layers?? be sure to keep us info as it progress....!!

I've just received the fans and stuffs for my crunching cabinet this morning, hopfully I'll have the cabinet finished tomorrow evening!!

Great, now I would like to see the pics on yours.

[WarriorII]

My CEO needs to meet yours & take lessons.

[AlabamaCajun]

Nice work silver and yes that is how the pros finish furniture with several laquor and sand applications. I finished 2 violins that way 2 years ago, it produces the smoothest and glossiest finish ever. If you see a problem with the deflection in the sides, just get a length of 3/16 allthread and 2 blind cap screws and 2 nuts with washers. Nuts and washers go on to the threaded rod first to provide a stop so you cap tighten the caps on the outside.

Cap |=| washer nut ~~~ threaded rod ~~~ nut washer |=| Cap

[Silver]

Originally Posted by AlabamaCajun

Nice work silver and yes that is how the pros finish furniture with several laquor and sand applications. I finished 2 violins that way 2 years ago, it produces the smoothest and glossiest finish ever. If you see a problem with the deflection in the sides, just get a length of 3/16 allthread and 2 blind cap screws and 2 nuts with washers. Nuts and washers go on to the threaded rod first to provide a stop so you cap tighten the caps on the outside.

Cap |=| washer nut ~~~ threaded rod ~~~ nut washer |=| Cap

This is one of the better ideas. I shall remember that in the event it becomes necessary though I suspect it will not be an issue. I do like the idea. Thank you on noting the proper way to apply the lacquer. Dumb luck on my part and more done out of frustration. As you noted, it worked great.

[ihrsetrdr]

Very cool project- anxious to see some more pics! This is exactly the project I've been contemplating, complete with filters. Your comment that it will go in the garage in the summer drives home the important concept of portability.

Truly awesome job Silver!