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hobsonschoice:
Cut out handle slot in the rear panel, again i just used a 2 euro coin to get the curved ends and a jigsaw and sandpaper.
I then Used a grey primer and applied by brush. Never again! regardless how smooth your mdf is before painting, the very nature of a brush will leave tiny riples everywhere.
I had to use the elctric sander on it for ages to get it smooth again but still wasn't perfect.
Spray, Spray Spray!
It's more expensive to buy spray primer but definetly worth it.

hobsonschoice:
The back with hanlde and sprayed with metallic car paint

hobsonschoice:
OK,
the guts of the machine is a dell laptop c500.
You can see i have stripped it down and attached the motherboard to a shelf that slisdes into the back of the cab.
You will also see i have a cheap 4 port USB extension which i got of ebay for about 4€ and pulled apart and screwed down to the shelf.
In the middle you will see some old 4 wire telephone cable ending in a blob.
This is the hacked on/off button of the laptop and as the most difficult part of the whole project.
I underestimated how hard it would be to actually solder a wire to each side of the push button circuitry. I am talking soldering pinheads here.

I strongly recommend before starting a project to investigate the on/off switch of the potential donor laptop.
I was lucky and once it was soldered i lathered it with Araldite.

hobsonschoice:
araldite sealing the on/off hack

hobsonschoice:
Testing with screen inserted into the bezel and Mala frontend and software.
still using normal keyboard and mouse to navigate.

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