Mounting a scandoubler inside an 1200

[Brian]

The scandoubler fits very well inside the standard A1200, however you can NOT use the original HD cradle with it. I, as you, wanted this in a standard A1200 (for my mod project) so I simply cut and bendt a metall plate to fit and it worked well for me... thought I do have a sligty slimmer drive than that of the stock A1200. I didn't have a dremmel at the time so I simply put the drive in an antistatic bag and taped it to my custom cradle. :hammer:

[Brian]

About the taped and antistaticbag thing... yes it's not pro in any way or form but as I said I didn't have a dremmel at the time and it is actuallt quite firmly secure and work like a sharm so haven't bothered to change it yet. It's a 2Gb IBM drive and they are known to run very hot but it haven't given me any trouble so far. When I do more extensive work with the computer next time I will probably fix that aswell.

I was thinking of desolder the audio plugs and put the VGA connector there... then move audio, aswell as changing it to a standard stereoconnector (found on todays computer speakers), and mount that a bit to the side above the RFmod pointing down so to not render any port unusable.

[Brian]

@adolescent
Ehm... coeect me if I'm wrong but it seem to be plenty of room there... ofcause you can't use the standard VGA connector that comes with the scandoubler but it's real easy to create your own without the extra "big" card so there should be space enough... I will ofcause have to mount the port upside down but that's a small problem. I wouldn't remove the RFmod for anything... sure I don't use it often but if I want a mobile unit I want it to be real mobile and then it has to be able to plug into a TV also (no I don't want an external RFmod for that).

@EnyGmaTiK
All scandoublers I know get hot but even though my internal one made the rubberglue used on it to hold a cable in place sticky again it ran without any hickups... I would think even though the space is tight it's possible to mount a custom coolingplate on it if you like.

@jeffimix
The boxes you talk about give a crappy picture and cost as much as a scandoubler do... also we want it to be internal please.