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Step 26 Time to place your components

Time to start placing components. You'll want to make sure you have a fair amount of small screws, nuts and bolts on hand. Some aluminum sheeting helps - I found some aluminum grid sheeting at a tech surplus shop that came in very handy. Also, you can pick up standard computer hardware mounts that you can modify by bending or cutting as needed. This will all depend on what components you're putting in there. Plan on spending a lot of time on this. It's the equivalent of building a ship in a bottle.

You can screw directly into the fiberglass, or if you need to build a larger surface area, you can use dental acrylic to build yourself a better surface mount wherever you need it.

It's important to remember when installing your components, that you will likely need to access them in the future. Making them as easily removable as possible will definitely help if you run into any problems down the line.

I installed a bar across the top for the DVD drive to rest on, with enough room for the cords and the LED wires to wrap around the far side of it. I then mounted the hard drive to the side of the beaver with the aluminum sheeting and some screws.

Attach the power button internally. The switch I used just required two screws, which went into the fiberglass just fine. The modified straw filled with JB weld then stuck out his middle. I then attached a standard red power button on the other side.