Monday's task was to work out the mounting arrangements for the CompactFlash adaptor. Initially I thought I could secure it to the old floppy drive facia somehow, maybe by glueing a plate onto it and then using the pcb standoff holes to fix the adaptor to that. Nope, I could see various problems with that idea. In the end, after thinking through a few other ideas, I decided I would use long, tapped pcb spacers. I had heaps of various sizes in stock so after measuring the height the adaptor needed to be to align it's CF socket with the slot in the facia for the 5 1/4" floppy, I came up with the right combination of spacers for the height required.
So out came the hard drive and facia and I drilled two holes in the chasis. I also had to modify the drive rails because one side fouled the pcb of the CF IDE adaptor, so out came my trusty nibbling tool. I also needed my dremel to remove some plastic on the inside of the facia as it wasn't allowing the adaptor pcb to sit up against the facia properly. I then temporarily mounted the pcb and facia to test my measurements, and, yay, they were 100%, everything was aligned nicely. So the dremel, tin snips, drill, nibbler and other tools were packed away and it was back to the house to put the hard drive and facia back in and then test CF IDE adaptor...
That post will come next, after dinner :)
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