using lego for a case

Geckovich · 12 Jan 2009 at 19:54

Preliminary mock up was horrible. I'm obsessed with keeping my PC quiet (despite the raptor drive) and this lego build was anything but.

I basically just mad a little mobo stand but it sucked.

Creaky, rattly, ugly.

It's a nice idea but I wont be wasting any more time on this. Shame really.

MikeHunt79 · 12 Jan 2009 at 21:40

Geckovich said:
Preliminary mock up was horrible. I'm obsessed with keeping my PC quiet (despite the raptor drive)

Raptors aren't that noisey if you suspend them in elastic...

Geckovich · 12 Jan 2009 at 22:38

MikeHunt79 said:
Raptors aren't that noisey if you suspend them in elastic...

That's exactly how I have it

BringTheRain · 13 Jan 2009 at 00:47

DO IT DO IT, I WANNA A SEE A LEGO CASE

Crashgate3 · 13 Jan 2009 at 11:22

Lots of rubber standoff washers would minimise a lot of the noise I imagine. If you've got lots of the lego pneumatic hoses, you could cut a mm length off and put it over the lego axles and mount stuff on them.

Geckovich · 13 Jan 2009 at 11:53

Its not the hardware in the case, its the creak of the bricks that did it noise wise.

I might give it another bash in a month or so as I'm too busy at the moment.

I'm thinking of a purely technic construction, very open, kind of just a glorified test bench aka MDF with mounts, aka antec skeleton.

MikeHunt79 · 13 Jan 2009 at 13:08

Geckovich said:
That's exactly how I have it

Nice

gergon69 · 13 Jan 2009 at 14:59

with the lego would you glue the pieces together or just have them loosely fitted

Artest · 14 Jan 2009 at 09:30

Lego case

Infam0us · 14 Jan 2009 at 11:45

anant_shah94 said:
the only probelm, is it could melt if ambient temperatures are too high,

Do you actually know how hot plastic has to be to melt?

adbp1 · 14 Jan 2009 at 19:14

brilliant idea, always wondered what to do with the lego/technics in the loft, seeing as ive just upgraded too i got a whole setup to put in it

ive got about 2 boxes ( recycle container size) if this too

jakspyder · 14 Jan 2009 at 20:51

everyone has a few tonns of lego in the attic, you cant beat it! its just the best toy ever made! would lvoe a technics case, if you get the mental mindstorm stuff you cuold have little pneumatic vents that open up when temps get high XD or something silly like that, id love to try it!