I want to build a case. And I'm hoping to leverage your collective experience.
The goal is a very dense stack of shelves in something roughly 16"x16"x12-16"h. Advice would be appreciated.
I'm considering laminating 1/8" acrylic, a conductive foil, an insulating sheet and the motherboard. I'll cut holes in the insulating sheet beneath the screw mounts and place conductive washers to fill. I'm hoping this'll give me a rigid enough platform to support the motherboard and a copper heatsink. And do it with a terrifically low-profile.
For the outer shell:
1. 1/4" acrylic. Front and back hinged doors. Bit worried that the shelving sides will buckle without some cross-bracing. If the shelving glides are just strips of 1/8" plexiglass, even a little buckling and the motherboard shelves may slip off the glide.
2. Extruded T-slot aluminum. Makes a strong frame. But I can't find it in any size smaller than 1" (ok 20mm at a few places). This is much stockier than I am hoping for. Contruction should be easy though. However, I don't see any components for these systems that'll give me low profile glides for my shelves. I could run more T-slot bars horizontally and use the slot to run the shelf. 1" bars mean roughly a 1/3" inch(6.05mm) glide. But I'd also have to cut out a 1/3" inch slot in the vertical supports to let the shelf in/out.
3. The acrylic frame(1) with horizontal struts beneath each shelf for additional support. Quite a lot of extra cutting and some fussy gluing.
What do you think?
The goal is a very dense stack of shelves in something roughly 16"x16"x12-16"h. Advice would be appreciated.
I'm considering laminating 1/8" acrylic, a conductive foil, an insulating sheet and the motherboard. I'll cut holes in the insulating sheet beneath the screw mounts and place conductive washers to fill. I'm hoping this'll give me a rigid enough platform to support the motherboard and a copper heatsink. And do it with a terrifically low-profile.
For the outer shell:
1. 1/4" acrylic. Front and back hinged doors. Bit worried that the shelving sides will buckle without some cross-bracing. If the shelving glides are just strips of 1/8" plexiglass, even a little buckling and the motherboard shelves may slip off the glide.
2. Extruded T-slot aluminum. Makes a strong frame. But I can't find it in any size smaller than 1" (ok 20mm at a few places). This is much stockier than I am hoping for. Contruction should be easy though. However, I don't see any components for these systems that'll give me low profile glides for my shelves. I could run more T-slot bars horizontally and use the slot to run the shelf. 1" bars mean roughly a 1/3" inch(6.05mm) glide. But I'd also have to cut out a 1/3" inch slot in the vertical supports to let the shelf in/out.
3. The acrylic frame(1) with horizontal struts beneath each shelf for additional support. Quite a lot of extra cutting and some fussy gluing.
What do you think?
