Sorry about my last post, it was way long on excuses about sorry appearance and unfinished state, overspiced with my usual OT drivel and way shorter on real info than it should have been. Not to mention my posting a pic that wasn't right-sized. Should have read the maniac's posts more carefully about the fitment issues instead of just posting a QuickPic while I was tired.
Better pic of the backplane and a 6x00 drawer. You can see where the sheet metal of the case and drawer face need to be notched so they don't interfere with each other other's function. The case/drawer plastics are the easy part and will cover a multitude of metalhackage sins, just like mouldings do in woodworking. BTW, you can see that my "blocks of wood" are actually wedges for height adjustment in fitting, somewhat less inelegant than as described above. Almost, but I'm not
quite that close to being a Neanderthal.
Here's a shot of the card/connector bar clearance, let's call it 5/8" between the back of my vertically clipped USB card and the unnecessary connector bar. I say that because splitting the IDC cable loom for installation of discrete connectors for SCSI and power lines to the Optical Drive was always in the back of my mind. lopping off the AV section of the bar to hang free would work if you have clearance available for the kluge, depends on requirements. You'll gain about another 1/2" of additional head space for a installing a longer card that way.
Love the way the FDD and SCSI interfaces are interwoven. neither device can really interfere with each other and they provide crosstalk protection for each each other. Sweet, Apple's subcontractor
obviously came up with that bit of elegance when the whole cable loom/motherboard connector notion hit the drawing boards.
High angle view of clearances: the offset doesn't matter using the 6x00 drawer because there's a well built into it for the recessed connectors. Front to back angle of shot makes it look like the drawer doesn't fit flush with the chassis, optical illusion there, it does.
Another shot that happens to show the clearance limits: more importantly it shows why it's imperative that the Fan Assembly, sheet metal supporting it and the portion of the bezel hiding it with openings for the venting remain untouched. The offset from the backplane, dropped section of the PSU housing and venting of outside airflow to the PSU housing are (hopefully) carefully balanced with the case venting to get just the right ratio of heated air from the PSU and cool air from the case vents into the CPU chamber for proper cooling overall when vented out the top. Pretty sure support of Portrait Res. was dropped from the spec in case that lovely RFI generation unit might be placed atop the 6360 and exiting airflow from the top vent blocked due to ID10T error malfunction.
I said heat dissipation was the more important issue above, it is, but it's the airflow blockage by the higher two slot riser that's at issue. It's taller than the CSII card/closer to the overhead, so pointing a tiny fan at the CSII card for restoration of that blocked airflow might be a consideration. Higher CFM rated fan replacement should probably be done, couldn't hurt even if not absolutely necessary..
Not
really a gratuitous shot of the Crescendo L2/400/1MB for which I bought the refurb 6360 back in the day, but what the heck! It show clearances, the cooling complexities and more importantly the mobo connector for the mirrored A/V cable that pokes the DA-19 connector out would appear to be a redundant vestigal LC Expansion Card cover port. Snag one of those little puppies and that cable puts the Video Out Board into your parts bin along with the tuner module. Any obsolete broadcast/cable TV interface now requires a converter box. Just make sure it's a high end unit with S-Video and Stereo Jacks for the backplane connectors and you're even good to go for TV on your little 640x480 secondary (primary as far as the clueless A/V Card/6360 knows) display next to your VidCard fed beast.
Forgot to prep the high oblique shot of the clearance issues for my full length PCI card hack posed by the raised position of the lower PCI Slot. Depending upon the height of the board and components it positions underneath the Optical Bay floor it's still doable. The (DVD playback Daughtercard equiped) Vidcard in there now must be full height whereas the full length Radius VidCard I used in the 6360 back in the day wasn't
quite as tall.
Clearances in that HUGE expansion cubic wasted on the nice big speaker explains why you see it hanging off the side of the 6360 in the first pic. FDD, Power Button/IR Remote/Sound Jacks etc. box and the speaker all faced the front (backside) of the BenchMac6360
™. Never did re-install a CD, it was hooked up to an external CD/R/W Drive its entire bare@$$ nekkid sheet metal exposed service life.
There, was that a bit more helpful? I'll post HiRes versions of any pics requested. [
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