- #Power mac g5 case disassembly Patch#
- #Power mac g5 case disassembly mods#
- #Power mac g5 case disassembly Pc#
Hm, when I just checked the glue I noticed it hasn't hardened completely yet, so I took the G5 from the basement, where it is rather cool, to the flat and installed a professional heating unit to speed up the hardening process. I hope I'll also have the time to refit the fan-holes tomorrow that's gonna be a bit tricky. That means I'll have to mix the glue the old-school way when I use it again. The syringe has been rendered unusable by the residue that hardened in it. There is, however, no way of rinsing the nice mixing syringe that came with it (see above). One thing about the Loctite glue I used: As far as I can tell by now it does its job very well. I'll also dremel away the set-in screw threads of the panel over the PCI slots since they are in the way of the thumbscrews I got for affixing the PCI cards. Tomorrow the next step will be to rivet the I/O panel to the back since I can't use the pre-made screw holes of the modular I/O panel because they don't line up with the G5's mesh holes.
#Power mac g5 case disassembly mods#
Here it is, attached to the Mountain Mods modular I/O panel with an AGP (!) graphics card and a PCI card:
#Power mac g5 case disassembly Pc#
So, my brother-in-law kindly gave me his old Pentium 4 PC to use for the project well, I mainly needed the mainboard. I for one will get the rest of the cutting done (as far as I can without knowing exactly at what height I have to mount the Mountain Mods rear I/O shield) in the basement tomorrow.Īnother tip regarding rotary blade cutting: You get a nicer (read: thinner) cut by proceeding steadily through the metal at a reasonable pace as opposed to going back and forth between straining and relieving the rotary blade. Well, you could always ask your spouse to hold a vacuum next to the cutting tool. This aluminium dust is really nasty and settles everywhere. Hopefully I won't screw up the other two narrow edges.īut in the end the rear is more about functionality than about shiny looks, isn't it?Īh, and for all of you who are planning to do the cutting in their apartments: Don't. Maybe I'll glue it back in later but the fan assembly will be behind the gap anyway. There I didn't start cutting in the middle which resulted in the material being too hot and vibrating too much for this narrow section to sustain. I just made one mistake at the bottom, just above the power socket. On the other two edges, however, I should manage to get a smooth joint since there will be some excess material I'll have to cut off.
#Power mac g5 case disassembly Patch#
I know this will result in having small gaps where the cuts are now but I'll patch those up from the inside with bits of the part I have to cut out for the upper three PCI slots at the top (or plain aluminium bands ). So I did some measuring and decided to cut out the fan section as indicated by the first two cuts and turn it by 180° so the fans are closer to the other side. Well, as stated earlier in this thread I'm going to use the original G5 rear fan assembly, which won't fit in its normal position due to the width of the motherboard rear I/O section. "What is he doing there?!" you might think.
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