mounting drives in a case

[Tyler Littlefield]

Hay greg.
How about using some of those styrophome pads. You can cut them to any
length and width you want, and it will let you compensate for the space
between the drive and the bay, or am I missing it altogether. If you want to
make brackets, you could just possibly rig some kind of wire that would hold
each side of the drive the front and the back, and come together at a v so,
it would look like a sorta messed up sphere, but the top and bottom of the
sphere would be attached to the bay to hold the drive in place. you could do
the same over the top of the drive.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 1:41 PM
Subject: mounting drives in a case


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> Hi all.
>
> I have an old Del case, that I'd like to mount 2 drives in. The way
> you mount drives in this box is to screw the long flat plastic
> brackets onto a 5.25I drive, one bracket per side, take off the front
> part of the case, and slide in the drive with the attached brackets
> from the outside forward, until the drive slides all the way in, and
> the brackets snap in, holding the drive in place.
>
> My problem is that I don't have extra brackets, and don't want to have
> to order them from Del, or to go out and get them anyway. A friend of
> mine told me that sometimes Del supplies extra brackets on the inside
> of their cases of this type, but short of unscrewing the motherboard to
see if there
> is anything between it and the case back, I've been over the inside of
> the case 4 times, with no extra brackets.
>
> So, does anyone have any ingenious ideas for how I can mount 2 5.25I
> drives in the case without having the extra brackets to mount them
> with? Anyway to attach screws to this type of case that isn't obvious?
>
> I also noticed that the metal covers that cover the unused bays on
> this case are held on by 2 screws, one on either side, screwed into
> the front edges of the case on each side. Any creative way of screwing
> the drives in somehow that way? Any suggestions would be much
> appreciated. If any part of my description doesn't make sense, please
> let me know, and I'll try to clarify. Thanks in advance.
>
> Greg
>
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