Joel Uckelman on Tue, 19 Jul 2005 20:12:29 -0500 (CDT)


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Re: [hosers-talk] Is it wrong?


Thus spake "Jon Stewart":
> > Can't you find a broken SGI to gut?
> 
> 
> I was able to find an empty Octane chassis on eBay, and I bought it.
> 
> There are a couple of problems. It doesn't have any 5.25" drive bays. It 
> doesn't have any fasteners for J. Random Motherboard. The PCI cards are 
> supposed to be on the other side of the case (which is impossible with a 
> stock mobo) and the 3.5" bays in place currently would conflict with any 
> cards on a stock mobo.
> 
> So, it's a big project. But it will be cool.

A Dremmel and a nibbler (http://www.directron.com/nibbletool.html) are your 
friends for projects like this.

-- 
J.


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