I was watching click online (www.bbcworldnews.com/click ) and they mention in the programme how you can build your own boxes into figures like spice racks , robots , cars ect . From the programme It seems you buy pieces of a box which act like lego and then build your own box . quite nifty.
Regards Malcolm On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Alan Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Nowadays many exposition halls, restaurants etc. in Europe have stratified > wood beams. These need to be treated with fire retardants by regulation, in > which case they are actually more safe than steel (steel bends and bucles > when warmed). > > You could take a look at whatever products they use to treat them. > > PS: My last DIY box was a TV table on wheels, with a couple of shelves for > video casettes underneath beahind glass doors. I took out the shelves and > put in 4 motherboards, and there I was with a 70x70x50 cm mobile cluster. > > Cheers, > -Alan > > > -----Missatge original----- > De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] en nom de [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Enviat el: dv. 24/10/2008 10:31 > Per a: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > A/c: Beowulf@beowulf.org > Tema: RE: [Beowulf] Cases for DIY boxen > > > I am not so sure that wood is as flammable as you think. > Hard wood needs sustained heat for a reasonably long period of time to get > going. > > And anyway for a computer system there is no reason why you can't do some > fireproofing - get some borates, silicates or other salts to keep the > organic matter away from the oxygen. Waterglass (Sodium silicate) is cheap > and readily available. > > Although I guess the main negative factor for us is the presence of a high > airflow bringing lots of fresh oxygen. So if you could use oxygen-free > cooling air (!) or otherwise shut the airfow off triggered by a smoke > detector ... > > Daniel > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] > On Behalf Of Peter St. John > Sent: 23 October 2008 18:33 > To: Robert G. Brown > Cc: beowulf@beowulf.org > Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Cases for DIY boxen > > Robert, > > Yes, the consensus (offline) had seemed to be that humidy, thermal > insulation, etc are not issues; and the only issue would be flammability. > And yeah, I actually watched a capacitor explode under ideal circumstances > (it was shadowed dark behind the box where I was looking, wondering why the > prototype game box was behaving badly); it shot a beautiful little jet of > flame. > > Incidentally, Sebastian Hyde has pictures of a really beautiful black > walnut PC. I think the right word is "baroque". Really beautiful. But yeah > consideration would have to made for the fire issue. > > Peter > On 10/23/08, Robert G. Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL > PROTECTED]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>> > wrote: > On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Peter St. John wrote: > On the subject of Doug's "A Case for Cases" > http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7164, I had noticed that the Helmer thing > ("bewwulf in an Ikea cabinet") is not > really in a wood cabinet (the steel box can be put inside a cabinet). I'm > assuming it's unreasonable to actually make a wood cabinet? On account of > humidy, or just weight? To me it just sounds easy to build a wooden rack > for > a bunch of ATX motherboards. And it could look nice. Thermal and electrical > insulation would be OK, and humidy controlled with a good paint job on the > interior...? > > What about fire? Anything electrical can in a worst case pop hot/molten > metal before frying and/or blowing a breaker. Capacitors blow up > (literally). A wire is badly soldered and pulls free and grounds out, > spattering white hot metal. > > Inside a metal shell, odds are you won't get a REAL fire as there isn't > much actively flammable around. In a wooden box, carefully dried by six > months of 50C heat... it wouldn't take a lot to get real flames, > especially if the box had e.g. a cooling fan mounted to actively fan a > hot coal into flames. > > rgb > > Peter > > -- > Robert G. Brown Phone(cell): 1-919-280-8443 > Duke University Physics Dept, Box 90305 > Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 > Web: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb <http://www.phy.duke.edu/%7Ergb>< > http://www.phy.duke.edu/%7Ergb> > Book of Lilith Website: > http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/Lilith/Lilith.php<http://www.phy.duke.edu/%7Ergb/Lilith/Lilith.php> > <http://www.phy.duke.edu/%7Ergb/Lilith/Lilith.php> > Lulu Bookstore: http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=877977 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > > -- Malcolm A.B Croucher
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