DO NOT USE THIS 100mm Computer Case Mount
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**Don't use this design. Learn from my mistakes.** **UPDATE 6/1/19**: Bracket failure #2. I moved some equipment to a job site and had to mess with the wall mounted laser computer while gathering all that together. A few weeks later, I visited my lab to find the new-and-improved bracket had failed. My intuition, after comparing the two failures, is telling me PLA really doesn't like being under load for an extended period of time. It seems like the bracket started to give at the same point (the inner elbow of the horizontal member) and as that crack shifted force to the vertical member, it went from holding weight in shear to resisting a perpendicular force, which it also didn't like. For the time and trouble, you should just buy a sheet metal wall mount. **UPDATE 9/11/18**: I've added a small fillet to the interior corner of the bracket to help spread the load of the case. The first iteration I made of this design started bending at that corner after jiggling the case around. I also printed the new version with a 25% zigzag infill pattern - the previous version printed with Cura's standard infill and it didn't have any support crossing that corner. Hopefully this one will hold up. If you don't see any further updates, it means this design has been working fine since 9/11/18. **Original Description for Posterity**: This is a wall bracket for small computer cases (100mm wide or less). It is tapered to reduce print time and required material. The bracket has two mounting holes and can be secured into a wall with drywall anchors and screws that are roughly 3mm (nominal diameter). I've got a laser cutter in my lab that works really well, except for the whole dongle lockout thing. That security system doesn't play well with my new CAD computer, so I've been keeping an older system around just to prep laser files and run the machine. Rather than put up with it cluttering a desk when it spends 90% of its time off, I decided to mount the computer above the laser. I also cut a piece of neoprene to serve as a mouse pad and mounted it on the back corner of the cutter's housing. I added a couple of strips of adhesive-backed foam rubber to these brackets to prevent the computer from sliding around when I swap USB cables, etc. The brackets should hold well with standard drywall anchors since the force is all perpendicular to the fasteners. You may want to anchor these in to some studs if you've got a heavy custom rig, though.
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