Nice design 😀

Are they open at the back so you can push the CPU out when needed?

They are open at the back but it is still not a well thought out design. Things you need to lift up to eject its content should be redesigned. It would greatly profit from openings on the side which allow for taking the CPU's out without lifting up the entire tray.

Nice. Can you share the .stl files? I have a 3D printer. I don't have many s370 or newer CPUs, but I do have many s5/s7 and earlier. Shouldn't be too hard to mod to cover earlier CPUs too.

Very nice! But I would add finger sized cutouts in the middle of each side, so they can be picked up easily.

Very nice project indeed. I'm looking forward to seeing the Thingiverse link for this and maybe some versions of this project for different CPU socket sizes.

Do you have plans for a Socket 478 CPU tray? I have a bunch of CPUs in that form factor so I could certainly find one handy.

you can lift up from underside.
its open. With cutoffs the tray will be less stable.

Sockel 5 and 7 CPU's also fit inside. 😀 Socket A too.

it would be cool to get also different cpu's stackable in the same stacking system.
maybe there is some universal measurment which fits many cpu's e.g. 3 Sockel 370 = 4 478 pieces broad ~

A huge space improvment for me 😀

Now lets make a Socket 478 and S939/AM2 Version 😀

The only thing I would be worried about with those trays is, depending on what you printed them of, static electricity. Commercial trays are made of antistatic materials, but the usual 3D printer filament isn't that. In fact in my experience ABS in particular can accumulate significant charges. I don't know about PLA.
A solution would be to wrap the CPUs in aluminum foil before putting them in trays. This way all pins are in contact with each other and ESD damage may be averted.

stamasd wrote:

The only thing I would be worried about with those trays is, depending on what you printed them of, static electricity. Commercial trays are made of antistatic materials, but the usual 3D printer filament isn't that.

That's exactly the reason why I would never ever use 3d-printed trays for still-working CPUs. For bad ones that are just for display, it might be ok, though.

derSammler wrote:

stamasd wrote:

The only thing I would be worried about with those trays is, depending on what you printed them of, static electricity. Commercial trays are made of antistatic materials, but the usual 3D printer filament isn't that.

That's exactly the reason why I would never ever use 3d-printed trays for still-working CPUs. For bad ones that are just for display, it might be ok, though.

Conductive(a.k.a. ESD SAFE) ABS or PLA filaments are not that rare.

Edit: or cover it in tin foil

486 Tray.

Simply print with ESD material if needed.. no need to worry about.
1Kg costs around 30 € so its still cheap enough.

Or simply cut out a piece of ESD Foil and put it inside the tray 😜

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3026939

If these were the same as the OEM trays (which fit 10 processors) I would be hitting you up for quite a few 😀

I too have my own for 50x50 (s7,370,462) pentium pro and 486. I am not at home so cant take photos right now.

I was thinking about publishing them too, but design could use some tinkering. Unfortunately say for s370 I already printed over 20 of them and changing dimensions would break stackability. making all 3 types with same outside dimensions so they could be stacked would be cool too 😀

Nice design. I made some too, for various socket types. All of them are fixed size 240x190mm (the max size I can print) and stackable. One tray can hold 12 pieces of 50x50mm cpus or 20 pieces of 40x40mm. I can post some photos later.

Also I think ESD is not that big deal, CPUs (and other components) are in fact rather hard to kill. I have hundreds of things and there are very few of them that died by itself for no apparent reason. And even those might not be a victim of ESD but just some random malfunction.

But the truth is it can't hurt to put piece of tin foil to the bottom. 😀

//edit - here it is:

Socket 5 / 7 / 370 / 462

Socket 478 and also for various mobile CPUs

Socket 1366

Huh, I almost forgot about this topic. 😀
You can download the trays here https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3876834

Man, why is no one of you cleaning the CPUs before putting them into trays?

Anyway, and to stay on topic: you can find the variations I made based on matze79's design here:
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4086334 (386)
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4082085 (Pentium Pro)
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4080531 (68040/060 and MIPS R10000)

More to come when I have time and a new spool of black PLA+.

Need to revive this 🤣

What software are you using for the creation of the models? I for example, would like a 1.5 times longer version of matze79's or derSammler's modified design ..

Thanks

havli wrote on 2020-02-29, 11:52:

Huh, I almost forgot about this topic. 😀
You can download the trays here https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3876834

Very nice! 😀