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This is a Four PC test system. It will be mobile (Wheels on bottom). It will have four computer set-ups for testing hardware. At no time will more than one system be powered, so they will share a single Power Supply. In a testing enviroment, I will remove the side panel, add the testable hardware, plug in the PSU, and power up the system. I will be using a KVM switch to share to Keyboard, Mouse and 17 inch LCD.

This is a storage unit I bought at Office Depot for about $40

The bars for the shelves came off pretty easy

I used very thin plexi so it would easily bend to the shape of this frame

Here's the high strength plexi I'm using for the shelves

Here's with the shelves inside. The blue is just the protective covering for the plexi and will not stay one. I thought of leaving it on, but I could see this stuff melting under the heat of the motherboards.

Here's with the systems all inside. Looks cool.

Here's the Lone Power Supply. It's 400 watts and has nice long cables

I cut holes in each level of plexi so that the PSU cable could snake through to the bottom.

So here's where I'm currently at. I still need to add the DVD drives, Power buttons, and hard drives

So I found a square bar that was left over from Hard Drive PC and cut a hole for the bar to feed all the way to the bottom.

I'll have to cut holes as marked for each level to feed in its SATA Cable

I'll be able to mask the onslaught of cables that I may have in this project.

I still need to find a seal of some kind at the top to lock the bar into the plexi

Same goes for the bottom. I'm thinking rubber or silicon maybe?

So I finally got started on installing XP on all those Hard Drives!

I just have to mount the LCD to the top.

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