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Written by Mikhail Ivanenkov
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Wednesday, 13 June 2007 |
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With all the parts laid out it's time to start putting it all together. While there is a set progression in the instructions, it doesn't make much of a difference which order you do things in. Furthermore, the instructions are pretty bad. While they are clearly written, they're a bit tough to understand the first time around. For one thing, the small screws aren't terribly well distinguished and I ended up using the wrong ones, wondering why they wouldn't go in (the diameter was slightly larger). There's also a serious lack of pictures to go along with the writing, making it difficult to visualize the end result. I ended up putting the thing together incorrectly 2-3 times before I finally went online and saw a picture of what the final outcome should resemble. But other than that it's no rocket science.
The first thing I decided to do was mount the rubber spacers on the bottom shelf. Here you use 10 screws with washers and 10 corresponding rubber spacers. This is where your motherboard will rest. Along one of the edges you'll end up with two plastic protruding screws in place of the sunken steel ones. These will be later inserted into a pair of your motherboard holes to keep it from rocking back and forth.
Eventually your bottom shelf will look something like this. For the majority of the project you'll be fine with a standard Philips head screwdriver. However near the end (when it's time to connect the two shelves) it will be next to impossible to create a tight fit without a powered drill. One thing to notice here is that no metal ever touches any of your components. This makes the entire Tech Station non-conductive which is a big plus.
Once that's done you'll want to insert 4 long screws from the bottom (through rubber feet of course) with about a quarter of each one sticking out the other side. You can then manually screw on the 4 pillars. Two of them have holes on the side for the AGP/PCI support bar and are labeled with a black marker in the direction they should be facing (marked side up). It might take you a few tries to screw in (i.e. properly align) these two bars so that they're both firmly inserted into the base and at the same time facing the right direction. The next step is to screw in the brackets and then attach the AGP/PCI support bar. The bottom section is now complete.
The upper shelf is a lot easier to piece together. The first step is to mount steel brackets for where the 120mm fans will go. Then simply screw in the fans and grills. Note that one of the fans might come very close (or even into contact with) your CPU cooler if you have an unnaturally large/awkward one and may have to be removed.
Next up you'll want to thread a few screws through the acrylic racks and plastic spacers before screwing them into the shelf. When turned upside down, this will serve as your HDD rack. You'll be able to slide your drive in and forget about it. There's enough length for a pair of 3.5" drives.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 15 June 2007 )
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