A question on attaching stuff securely in A1200 tower

[Argo]

That just sounds wrong. My girlfriend's first computer, a PowerSpec, had all its connectors and ram hotglued in place. Made upgrading that cheap piece of crap annoying.

[kgrach]

@Eco

My A1200t has an internal flixer made by DCE I go everywhere with that stupid bugger and it has never come off. The cards in the Mediator pop out a little. If I hit some really major Potholes.
But if yours comes loose the only suggestion I can think of is a little hot glue tacked in the corners. The blizppc is another matter altogether over the years I have tried different things the easiest and works rather well. took a small platic clamp drilled a hole in it and mounted it with a screw on a standoff on the mounting hole by the accelerator. the clamp then holds my accellerator. On my Dream and Gear cases the clearance is so little once your put the top on with a mediator a small piece of soft rubber included wedges that sucker real good.

also I use a really sweet pair of straps from CaseAce that makes carrying around my tower case easy I also have their straps for my monitors I used to use their monitor stap with my 1764. I now however use thier LCD monitor holder with my 19 inch LCD. saves the back big time compared to a 21" CRT.

Kgrach

[kgrach]

@ jeffimix
you Can't use Superglue or hot glue on anything the gets hot. Thats how I remove screws and stuff that people super glued. I hit it with my hot air pencil and soften the glue right up

[Eco]

Only the second part of my internal scandoubler is a loose fit; the simple part where the two wires come from. Looking at it, it seems like a simple enough job to just use a bit of hot glue or two-sided tape to hold it to the chip.

I'll look into holding the BPPC down with some sort of clamp. I really feel it should not be moving from side to side .  :-o

[nEx]

I fit my chip-on-chip Keyboard Adapter with hot glue too... (a little on every end)

with your other prob... do you have a picture of it??

@all : keeping your a1200 into a tower  isn´t complicated as you use the same rules as on pc or others!! my A1200 is 99% ready ;-))

[Eco]

I don't have a picture of the thing. Maybe I could swivel my webcam and take some shots when I get home from work.

The problem is basically that the BPPC can tilt from side to side from the non-connected end, even when tilting the tower slightly for maintenance operations, etc.  This is basically not very good for the connection, and with the BVision attached, it moves as well.

The BPPC cannot separate from the connector, but this is a legitimate "build quality" issue for my tower.

[nEx]

send some shots and we will see  :-D

[Karlos]

My biggest gripe about the blizppc is that the CPUs sit on the 'outside' of the card - ie towards the side panel.

This means I have no room to fan them directly in my tower, so even my 040 is passively cooled with a (fairly chunky) heatsink. It actually touches the side panel in my case - however, that does tend to give me a rather large passive cooling surface ;-)

I really need to find some more of those really low profile 486 fan heatsink combos...

[Eco]

Ok, here's a shot of the the card when I hold it straight with a finger:



Here is how it tilts when released (always tilts toward the inside of the case):



I noticed there is a very small hole at the top of the card which could be used for mounting . Here is a nice location for a holding clamp:



Edit: Free image hosting my 4ss.

[Linchpin]

Hmm nice X shots :-)

[blakespot]

Do NOT use that kind of scandoubler / flickerfixer. Instead, use an external one that plugs into the RGB video port. Most of you guys do NOT know how to properly build an Amiga 1200 tower. I have seen many pictures of people's Amiga 1200 towers and they look like crap.

Using an external flicker fixer results in a lower quality signal (the video having already been converted to analog and needing to be converted back to digital, and then back to analog, once outside the box).  Internal flicker fixers would be a far prefereable solution.


blakespot

[Daedalus]

Hmmm... Can't see from those shots, but how close is the metal panel right behind the board? Where the Ram is? Any chance of a shot pointing the other direction? If it's close enough it could be secured to that panel or something in between, maybe using that small hole you pointed out. Again, cable ties could be your friend here :-) A pic from the trong-side of the tower and a further back shot showing the back of the tower would definitely help here anyway.

[Eco]

The metal behind the board is the psu, as you can see from this shot from behind the case:



The distance between the card and the psu surface is approximately 4 cm when the card is straight:



There are actually two metal clips with a hole, sticking out from the psu (the top one is visible in this picture):



Now that I'm thinking about it, the optimum solution would be to use these two clips and build some sort of support against which the card could lean. Remember that the card always leans toward the inside of the case. The one place where the card can safely lean on something is the black plastic strip between the memory connectors.

This would appear to be a good solution, since the card could still be removed without having to remove the support. Maybe I could even make it so that a fan can be pointed downward along the card, instead of the 80mm can you see in the pics being pointed "kind of toward the card". Observe the professional use of zip ties to hold the fan  :-D

[J-Golden]

Hey, been away for a while (and took forever to get through doomy's flames ;-) ) but yes!  those screw holes are put on genaric PS units for diff. mounting possitions.

Their are PC motherboard stands that are shaped like a "C" or more like a "G"  with a screw whole clip at the bottom of the clip.

This MIGHT be what you are looking for as it woulf mount into the top whole with out much modification...

Good Luck, I had to use a power drill and tin snips with my A1200 tower so  Ifeel for ya.

[iamaboringperson]

iamaboringperson wrote:
Edited by Argo: Off-topic


BTW your post count is currently '666' woooo!!!

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What?? What did I do wrong?

[lorddef]

iamaboringperson wrote:

iamaboringperson wrote:
Edited by Argo: Off-topic


BTW your post count is currently '666' woooo!!!

:-?

What?? What did I do wrong?

lol, mine was edited too, but I called doomy a kitty or something...