PotatoFi
Well-known member
Hey 68kmla! I would love to have an HD 20 SC hard drive, not so much for the hard drive, but for the enclosure. Seems like it would be a nice place for my SCSI ethernet adapter to live, and it would elevate my Macintosh SE a bit. But rather than gut an HD 20 SC, how about 3d printing an enclosure? I have a nice 3D printer (a Prusa i3 MK2S), and it looks like such an enclosure would just barely fit in the build envelope.
There would be a few challenges:
Any interest in a project like this? @maceffects, any thoughts? If something like this came to fruition, I'd be happy to print off a few enclosures for people, publish the files, whatever. I'm not really looking to make money on this (I mostly just want a couple for myself), but if I could print and sell a few to recuperate cost of filament and machine time, that seems like it could be fun.
There would be a few challenges:
- Need an enclosure of an HD 20 and/or HD 20 SC to create replica model from (I've literally never seen one in person)
- I can model in SketchUp and OpenSCAD, but would probably need to learn Fusion360 for something this complex
- Large, flat parts are fairly tricky to 3D print, as they're prone to warping issues
- Would need to find beige and/or platinum-like colors to print in, so the enclosures match the Macs in color (I've never liked painting 3D prints... would rather just find a similar colored filament)
Any interest in a project like this? @maceffects, any thoughts? If something like this came to fruition, I'd be happy to print off a few enclosures for people, publish the files, whatever. I'm not really looking to make money on this (I mostly just want a couple for myself), but if I could print and sell a few to recuperate cost of filament and machine time, that seems like it could be fun.