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A bracket slit question.

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kuyaglen

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I'm mounting a mobo on a sheet of acrylic and will be using standard mobo standoffs.
What is the best way to make the slits for the brackets of daughter cards in acrylic?
Am I just gonna have to drill holes in a line with a tiny drill bit? Do they make tiny tiny nano files?

I have though about just making the brackets hang off the end of the acrylic sheet but that
would take away from the clean look (and support?) I'm going after.

-Thank You
 
I'm not sure exactly what you're asking, but to make small slits in acrylic, the best way would probably to use a cut-off wheel with a snake arm attachment on a dremel type tool.
 
I would just cut one long slit with the cutoff wheel. Or just have the metal peice hang over the tray.
 
Sheldron said:
the best way would probably to use a cut-off wheel with a snake arm attachment on a dremel type tool.
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Never thought about using the snake arm...but instead of the cutoff wheel I think I'll go with
one of those small wood carving bits.


penguin said:
I would just cut one long slit with the cutoff wheel.
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Thats damned interesting...gives me an idea for a some fan placement.
 
Can I ask why you're using standard mobo standoffs? You could make like, hot-swappable ones, where no screwing is required. Just some poles with a washer around them some of the way down, that the board just slips over. That way, you can change it around/abuse it as often as you like. It's what I do when I do bench-tests.
 
banGerprawN said:
You could make like, hot-swappable ones, where no screwing is required. Just some poles with a washer around them some of the way down, that the board just slips over. That way, you can change it around/abuse it as often as you like. It's what I do when I do bench-tests.
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Thats some "out of the box" thinking...I like it, but this isnt gonna be a test system and I would
bring this new main rig to lans about every 5 weeks or so. But its definately a cool idea that
I'll try to remember with other projects.
 
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