Helmer has entered the building

Helmer was delivered this afternoon and I've already set him up and I'm already using him! Unfortunately for the moment it is for the purpose for which he was designed, as a set of draws. Just to keep things tidy I've put all my motherboards and parts in the six draws. Which makes waking around in my study somewhat safer.

I've also purposefully not completely finished assembling him. He has been designed quite cunningly with only two screws holding the whole cabinet together (there are 12 screws to attach the handles and 8 screws to attach the feet in the box which I'm not including in my count). What they've done instead is have a series of metal lugs built into the cabinet's sides and draws which you then fold over to keep everything in place. Both ingenious and cheap. Well for the moment I've just not folded all the lugs over so that I can easily disassemble it.

I will need to cut the vents into the back and I also want to drill vents into the top as well. In addition I'm also unsure at the moment whether to mount the motherboards in the draws like the Americans  or loose the draws and mount them on the draw rails like Jann. They fit in the draws and having them in there may make maintenance easier. That is when I want to access a motherboard I just pull out a drawer and disconnect the power/network cables. On the other hand even with holes cut in them the drawers will definitely stimmy the air flow which may be a problem as running six motherboards in the same box is bound to create a lot of heat. I'm not actually going to decide for the moment. I'll mull over that one.

I do want to take the top off and add the blender logo like the blender society did. I think I'll do that next.