Box for motherboard and power supply?

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Box for motherboard and power supply?

Has anyone found a convenient box to hold or store an Apple II series motherboard and power supply?

 

I have a system I knocked together from an Apple IIe motherboard to which I added a PSU, a few cards etc. I've had it on a workbench, mounted on nylon standoffs, but it would be nice to put it in some kind of enclosure. Not looking for an original or current-day case (I use a USB keyboard via the RetroConnector). It would be great if it's clear, but not looking to spend a lot. Just a simple box would work.

 

My apologies if this has been well-covered, but my search skills are undoubtedly less than high-end.

 

 

 

 

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Laser cutter

I have just made a box from plywood using a laser cutter. I used boxes.py (https://boxes.hackerspace-bamberg.de/) and you can input dimensions as needed. 

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Nice! I was wondering about

Nice! I was wondering about clean ways to cut slots for ribbon cables and so on. I could try to freehand it with a Dremel tool, but it definitely wouldn't look like this.

 

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It would be super cool if you

It would be super cool if you could post the design specs in case other people would like to order one.

 

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Design files for lasercut case

Here are the design files for the laser-cut case. 

I used a keyboard cutout that I found in the forum, and boxes.py.  The svg files can be modified to make additional cut-outs, etc.  

Package iconcase.zip

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pff000 wrote:Here are the
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Here are the design files for the laser-cut case. 

I used a keyboard cutout that I found in the forum, and boxes.py.  The svg files can be modified to make additional cut-outs, etc.  

Package icon

 Thanks!  I am sure someone will appreciate that.  I might take a look at it and see if I could adapt the keyboard cutout to fit a //e keyboard because I have a //e motherboard, keyboard and power supply that I may not have a usable case for.

 

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