Amiga 4000 Replica Case Fabrication

[FPGA]

Hello All,

My former partner was manufacturing some kind of inverter for trains in the past and I had to get involved with case fabrication for this product. It is almost the same thing with a metal computer case, except it accommodates a large power board and some fans instead of an ATX board, HDD/FDD trays.

I was wondering if there is an accurate mechanical drawing of A3000 and A4000 cases somewhere. I know that ABS front cover model is available at thingiverse; I am talking about entire cases. I think our technician can do the mechanical drawings to fabricate an identical case using similar metal sheet material.

So may be we can modify connector openings at the rear window for DVI socket, USB hosts etc. or even more, for instance to host an A600 mainboard instead of A4000 mainboard...

 

[ghoul]

Great idea, count me in for a case if this project is successful.

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[Niezgodka]

Well, great idea, but you must just get the case and reproduce it. I’m sure you would be able to sell 40-90 here, if quality would be great.

 

[FPGA]

I am not interested in for trade, mostly for fun; I have been crossing computers lately, Raspberry PI in Macintosh case for instance.

I want to use one of the cases for Raspberry based A4000, other one may be for A600 and if I can get a replica or original A4000 mainboard + cpu board; a real A4000 for my collection.

I opened this Wanted post so may be I can get lucky enough to find and empty case for measurements.

https://www.amibay.com/showthread.p...(with-or-without-the-PSU)&p=973441#post973441

We have a vendor here that we have worked for Inverter cases. They do electrostatic paint, anodizing, laser cutting and precision metal sheet bending.
If I can come up with unfolded mechanical drawing, I hope they can do the case.

 

[bradpadgett]

I could be interested in an entire case depending on your success.

 

[Woz]

Count me in on a case or two.

 

[FPGA]

well this thread is not for collecting interests but for finding drawings or dimensions for the actual case.

I will update here if I could get the case built.