You asked for it! (Be afraid……)

November 26th, 2006

Quinn requested some pics, so here we go! May not want to view if you have a heart condition, hangnail, or other serious medical condition. Keep pets and small children away. (This is so scary, it broke the blog!)

Display: display

Outside: Case

Inside: Inside

Close-up: closeup

Posted by abanks Filed in MythTV

5 Responses to “You asked for it! (Be afraid……)”

  1. davak Says:
    November 27th, 2006 at 6:03 am

    What the heck is the coke wrapper thing?

    My Coke Rewards?!?!?

  2. abanks Says:
    November 27th, 2006 at 10:52 am

    Well……

    The story goes like this. This machine’s CPU fan wore out, so I started scrounging for a replacement.

    The only fan I had laying around was a case-size fan, and it wouldn’t fit on the stock heatsink. Not a problem while building the machine, I just put the fan on top of the heatsink, and let gravity hold it there.

    Didn’t work so well when I turned it upright.

    Trouble is, that fan just wouldn’t stay anywhere useful, so I *ahem* engineered a duct solution to hold the fan in place and force its output over the heatsink.

    It’s worked well enough, I just left it!

    :-)

  3. davak Says:
    November 28th, 2006 at 10:52 am

    What the heck is that? It looks plastic from the pics…

  4. qmchenry Says:
    November 28th, 2006 at 12:02 pm

    I think that’s a beautiful piece of engineering. Thanks for sharing!

    I particularly like the use of packing tape as an alternative to duct tape.
    Note to self: don’t let davak look inside the Tech-Recipes servers…

  5. seamonkey420 Says:
    December 7th, 2006 at 10:13 am

    nice! hehe.. how did i miss this one? i love pics of other people’s rigs and setups and their macgyver skillz. :P

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