Re: [slightly OT] - looking for PC case

["Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>]

I've seen that!!! - saw it online somewhere last week (forget where) -
showed it to SWMBO already...

Only the front panel of the case will be visible though, (if I can fit it
in
where I'm thinking of), so the top/sides etc. are irrelevant.. (and don't
even need to be there at all!

I'm actually now seriously thinking about custom building my own case to
fit
the space, - all the internal stuff is dead easy, - just a space to mount
the components etc... the tricky part will be the front panel...

I am considering two approaches, one of which is to try to butcher an
existing front panel, but I would be *very* lucky to find one which is a
perfect fit... my other thought is to make my own front panel... and if I
do
that I could either try to make it out of the same wood as the desk so that
it looks like it's a part of the furniture, or I could try to use a
different material altogether, - like a plain sheet of auminium or
something... either way, I have to try & make my own cutouts... My
current
preference is to make it out of wood to match the desk... I just happen to
have a surplus piece, as I won't be using the slide out keyboard tray that
it came with.....

Paul G.



>From: Tony Butler <lists@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [ukha_d] [slightly OT] - looking for PC case
>Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 12:38:17 +0100
>
>Quoting Paul Gordon <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>:
> > Oh, and it must look dead nice, or I'll have SWMBO on my case
(pun
> > intended!) again....
>
>If you live anywhere near Croydon, I was actually shopping on saturday
>(yes,
>not online either - physically going OUT!) and there's a new shop in
the
>Whitgift center which had a case with a clear perspex side.  So what?
>Loads of
>cases have that now.  ah, this was different......it had a fishtank
with
>fake
>fish built into it - Niiiiiiccceeee!!!
>
>Think she'd go for that? :D
>
>T.
>
>

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