Reply 20 of 32, by DonutKing
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wrote:Well I've hit a couple of stumbling blocks. The case I was going to use seems to have no threads to screw in the motherboard standoffs- it just has holes with no thread, about 3-4mm in diameter.
That sounds like the old style AT standoffs... they'd usually use one or two screws, and the rest were plastic standoffs that just slipped into slots on the motherboard tray.
The plastic standoffs I'm using look exactly like the picture there, except the case seems to require standoffs about twice as high.
My 386/486 systems use these standoffs too but the actually have slots that taper down to a smaller width - so you can fit the round bit through the slot, then slide it up into the smaller part so it can't come out. This case just has round holes and they actually aren't big enough for the standoffs to fit through.
I suspect that perhaps there is some other parts of the case missing - perhaps there was another backplate or something that screwed into the bottom of the case and the standoffs slotted in there.