In part 1 we took took the first step in making things with the hard drive. I thought that we start off with a unique storage space for your small parts like screws and jumpers. I used to store this in an old paper floppy case which was kind of cool as it was from the time when the 720kb floppies were high-tech. The benefit with this case is that it’s wide and not that high so that you get a good overview of what you have.
If your wife/girlfriend is in to it (fat chance!) then it could be used as an case for her jewellery. Or you can use it as a key cabinet in the hallway.

The goal is to make the finished box look exactly like a real hard drive.

The easy way in doing this would be to use some silver tape on one edge and then it would be done. The best was would be to mount hinges and screw them into place, but we’re going to do a middle way with super glue. We’re going to mount two hinges with one end on the inside of the lid and the other side on the outside of the hard drive. I’d rather have them on the inside and I actually tried that but couldn’t get that to work.
Imagine that you have one part of the hinge on the outside and then cut out some space for the middle part to slide in. When you hold it into position and flip the inner one up then it should be levelled with the top of the bottom case.

Now you need to put the lid upside down and place the hard drive on top of it as in the picture. Mark where the holes meet the gasket and then cut that piece of the gasket out.

The lid is not exactly flat which creates a bit of a problem when mounting the hinge. Luckily I saw that the ring that holds down the hard drive platters just happen to be the same thickness that I needed.
It’s just cool to reuse some parts to stay in-theme. What a shame though that the hinges are in brass, I’d rather had them in chrome.