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Step 5Assembly
Time to start assembling.
Starting with the middle part of the floppy drive and the bottom half of the tray (the part the eject button attaches to.
Place the latching switch in make sure it sits in place and works with eject button.
When you are happy with the positions it's time to glue them in, be careful not to gum up any of the moving parts.
Leave it all to harden, hot glue guns don't take to long but it's better to be sure before putting pressure on it.
Test the latching switch if everything has gone OK you're almost there.
There are many screw points left from taking out the inner working to attach a mounting plate for the hub and the latching switcch but I have decided to use the glue gun for the simple fact I want to see if it all works first and it gives you a chance for trial and error but cutting a mounting plate or bracket is definitely the better option for longevity.
Put the face plate and the flap on.
Now you can put the hub inside and insert some drives to see where it needs to be fixed.
Centre it and make it far enough back so the flap doesn't open when you push a drive or cable into it. If you have larger USB plugs that you want to use and are obstructed by the size of the entrance now is the time to resize it. You can either file it or use the craft knife.
This isn't a big problem with my plan to have one of them not accessible anyway - if you do not want the haste of cutting or shaving the front panel, you can mount it further forward and loose the flap. There are many ways you can mount the USB hub inside, You could have it visible, or slightly set back so the font flap still functions. You can set it fully back so hooking up an old USB flash drive means you have some stealthy storage but this isn't practicle for removable drives.
Have a look at where the LED comes to the front panel. I needed to cut a small notch out for the LED to sit. This will vary from floppy drive model to model. Some will need fixing to the panel some to the case.
Take the front panel back off, fixing the LED comes in a little later.
** This is where it did go a bit wrong for me. My latching switch became temperamental. So close to the end and I had to wait for a new one I ordered off eBay, the new switch fitted in exactly the same place as the last one all I had to do was bend the terminals on the new one.
Make sure your switch and USB leads are coming out of the back and the flash drive is in it's final position
Put the floppies push button and the flap back on.
Put the spring back on to the front flap.
While bending the spring back put the top cover of the drive back on - this is fiddly the spring is usually fixed on to the top of the tray but were not putting that back in to make room for the hub.
Fit the bottom of the drive back on
Glue the Led into place.
Push the front plate back on.
Starting with the middle part of the floppy drive and the bottom half of the tray (the part the eject button attaches to.
Place the latching switch in make sure it sits in place and works with eject button.
When you are happy with the positions it's time to glue them in, be careful not to gum up any of the moving parts.
Leave it all to harden, hot glue guns don't take to long but it's better to be sure before putting pressure on it.
Test the latching switch if everything has gone OK you're almost there.
There are many screw points left from taking out the inner working to attach a mounting plate for the hub and the latching switcch but I have decided to use the glue gun for the simple fact I want to see if it all works first and it gives you a chance for trial and error but cutting a mounting plate or bracket is definitely the better option for longevity.
Put the face plate and the flap on.
Now you can put the hub inside and insert some drives to see where it needs to be fixed.
Centre it and make it far enough back so the flap doesn't open when you push a drive or cable into it. If you have larger USB plugs that you want to use and are obstructed by the size of the entrance now is the time to resize it. You can either file it or use the craft knife.
This isn't a big problem with my plan to have one of them not accessible anyway - if you do not want the haste of cutting or shaving the front panel, you can mount it further forward and loose the flap. There are many ways you can mount the USB hub inside, You could have it visible, or slightly set back so the font flap still functions. You can set it fully back so hooking up an old USB flash drive means you have some stealthy storage but this isn't practicle for removable drives.
Have a look at where the LED comes to the front panel. I needed to cut a small notch out for the LED to sit. This will vary from floppy drive model to model. Some will need fixing to the panel some to the case.
Take the front panel back off, fixing the LED comes in a little later.
** This is where it did go a bit wrong for me. My latching switch became temperamental. So close to the end and I had to wait for a new one I ordered off eBay, the new switch fitted in exactly the same place as the last one all I had to do was bend the terminals on the new one.
Make sure your switch and USB leads are coming out of the back and the flash drive is in it's final position
Put the floppies push button and the flap back on.
Put the spring back on to the front flap.
While bending the spring back put the top cover of the drive back on - this is fiddly the spring is usually fixed on to the top of the tray but were not putting that back in to make room for the hub.
Fit the bottom of the drive back on
Glue the Led into place.
Push the front plate back on.
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