The ramblings of g1powermac

Decided today was the day to start really working on my home made cluster/computer. Took out my 16 gauge steel plate, measured the 3 8×12 inch pieces and decided to cut them with a Dremel-like rotary tool. Thought the little cutting wheel would have worked quite well. But, to my surprise, I must have went through at least 15 of them to cut through the metal and took a couple of hours to complete. Should have thought about using another tool, but I really didn’t have any other means to cut it. Oh well, it took a while, but at least it worked.

After cutting them, I decided to use some metal sand paper to smooth over the cut sides and sand the main surfaces to give it a brushed steel look (yea, like MacOS X). Came out quite nice.

I then wanted to put some holes in one of the plates for the hard drives. First drive went in quite easily. But the second was a real pain. Seemed while I was drilling the hole for one of the holes, the drill had slid slightly from where it should have drilled and made the whole thing go off. Took a long time to correct, and still isn’t fully fixed. But, nevertheless, it looks alright (except to my perfectionist’s eye).

I’ll be posting some of pics of what was done tomorrow.

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