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Silly_Pony wrote:Haha you just put two drives on the table and took a photo. Wow genius of the year here.
Look where the mounting holes are. Line them up using that. Then try again. Lo-and-behold the ST bezel will extend further out.
If you don't line up mounting screws, you don't get correct answer. Simple as that.
joska wrote:I finally had some time to take a closer look at my stash of drives last night. You are both right. I have Atari drives (both from STE's btw) that looks like the one in Silly_Pony's picture, where the bezel ("poking through-bit" excluded) has the same thickness as the typical PC drive. In this case it's rather easy to transplant the bezel to a PC drive, as long a you find a good solution for the eject button.
I also have Atari drives (small button) where the bezel is several mm thicker than the typical PC drive, which seems to be the kind of drive atarieterno has. In this case either the PC drive or the bezel has to be cut down to make it fit. Large button drives is a completely different thing and doesn't seem to have any dimensions in common with "modern" drives except for the width.
Btw. I also have PC drives where the bezel is thicker than usual, these drives does not fit in an ST unless a rectangular hole is cut in the ST case.
Silly_Pony wrote:Haha you just put two drives on the table and took a photo. Wow genius of the year here.
Look where the mounting holes are. Line them up using that. Then try again. Lo-and-behold the ST bezel will extend further out.
If you don't line up mounting screws, you don't get correct answer. Simple as that.
joska wrote:You mean show me some pictures? I don't have any, but take a look at spiny's picture earlier in this thread. See the variation in bezel thickness?
Atarieterno wrote:Do you think the alignment of the screws in a photograph is decisive?
Silly_Pony wrote:Yes because you use the screws to attach it to the computer. It is, as said above, the unchangeable constant. Unless you drill through your motherboard.
Atarieterno wrote:do not read my posts that apparently bother you so much.
joska wrote:I modelled this in Sketchup a couple of years ago:
MPF920-ST.png
It's a bezel and ejectbutton for the popular (and good!) Sony MPF920. Unfortunately it's not quite finished, needs a bit of adjustment to fit correctly in the ST case.
GokMasE wrote:joska wrote:I modelled this in Sketchup a couple of years ago:
MPF920-ST.png
It's a bezel and ejectbutton for the popular (and good!) Sony MPF920. Unfortunately it's not quite finished, needs a bit of adjustment to fit correctly in the ST case.
Can the Sketchup original or STL/GX files be downloaded somewhere? And is this still a work in progress?
It indeed seems the Sony drives are the ones to go for in terms of replacement floppy drives.
Regards,
/Joakim
GokMasE wrote:Can the Sketchup original or STL/GX files be downloaded somewhere? And is this still a work in progress?
joska wrote:I modelled this in Sketchup a couple of years ago:
MPF920-ST.png
It's a bezel and ejectbutton for the popular (and good!) Sony MPF920. Unfortunately it's not quite finished, needs a bit of adjustment to fit correctly in the ST case.
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