I had a P-I/233 built for me about 6-7 years ago, maybe more, by a local White Box outfit and the system collected dust under a work bench for a couple of years when I decided it might make into a usable case for a system in an uncooled/ unheated environment that gets very hot in the afternoons this time of year (we're in south Texas, after all). It's an old enough design that good air flow through it wasn't a major consideration, however.
With no suitable fan mount on the back panel, I decided on a top blow hole. I have a "Blue Mol" hole saw that's supposed to be good for metal cutting. I have to use a hand-held 3/8" drill, and decided to take a break when it got hot enough to be uncomfortable holding it in my hands. The case is made from some heavier guage stuff, I suppose, than many current mid-range cases. I'm just surprised how much resistance it's giving to the hole saw teeth.
I was thinking about a 120 mm fan side panel intake -- I hope that panel isn't as heavy of a guage! I've put antenna mounts through car body metal (mid-60's cars before the cost of gas mandated lighter weight cars with paper thin sheet metal) that went in with a quarter part of the effort expended so far. I also have an unwindowed Antec side panel I wanted to put fans in, but at least with the side panels, I can use (I think it will fit) a drill press instead of a haldheld drill.
Of course, another reason to be grumpy is that the work area I consider appropriate for heavy shop work is uncooled, itself, so my own comparatively poor resistance to that much heat is a factor as well. (I remember coming to this area before AC was common, and not thinking that the local 90 degrees-and -up weather was so bad then (humidity was lower compared to now). Anyway, I've cooled off, I'm sure the drill cooled off, so I'm going to get on with it now. Thanks for letting me bend your collective ears!
(Edited. I'm back, I was a lot closer to finished than I realized. But I did fail to make an allowance for the relative roughness of the hole's edges. I'm not sure I can still put my hands on a round or half-round file around here to clean up the cut! And I looked all over the thing for any maker's mark, found nothing.)
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With no suitable fan mount on the back panel, I decided on a top blow hole. I have a "Blue Mol" hole saw that's supposed to be good for metal cutting. I have to use a hand-held 3/8" drill, and decided to take a break when it got hot enough to be uncomfortable holding it in my hands. The case is made from some heavier guage stuff, I suppose, than many current mid-range cases. I'm just surprised how much resistance it's giving to the hole saw teeth.
I was thinking about a 120 mm fan side panel intake -- I hope that panel isn't as heavy of a guage! I've put antenna mounts through car body metal (mid-60's cars before the cost of gas mandated lighter weight cars with paper thin sheet metal) that went in with a quarter part of the effort expended so far. I also have an unwindowed Antec side panel I wanted to put fans in, but at least with the side panels, I can use (I think it will fit) a drill press instead of a haldheld drill.
Of course, another reason to be grumpy is that the work area I consider appropriate for heavy shop work is uncooled, itself, so my own comparatively poor resistance to that much heat is a factor as well. (I remember coming to this area before AC was common, and not thinking that the local 90 degrees-and -up weather was so bad then (humidity was lower compared to now). Anyway, I've cooled off, I'm sure the drill cooled off, so I'm going to get on with it now. Thanks for letting me bend your collective ears!
(Edited. I'm back, I was a lot closer to finished than I realized. But I did fail to make an allowance for the relative roughness of the hole's edges. I'm not sure I can still put my hands on a round or half-round file around here to clean up the cut! And I looked all over the thing for any maker's mark, found nothing.)
:beer:
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