Alpine Carputer - Part 10

I am originally posting this project on the Overclockers Australia (OCAU) forums) in this thread:
Specific Hardware Topics > Modding > Alpine Caputer. This is post #46.

I was able to get some supplies today seeing as shops were open (Selleys metallic cement, electrical tape and some screws with nuts):

The metallic cement is great stuff! I used it for a few things.

Putting the motherboard stand-offs in place:

It doesn't look very neat but I'll wait until it's fully set until I try to neaten it up. I might wait for the Dremel as well so I can use the sanding tools from that. Anyway, after I'd finished this, I noticed that the electrical tape seems to have shrunk!? I'm assuming this was because I stretched the tape out when I applied it the first time around.

So I peeled it all off. I noticed the packet on the metallic cement says it fills holes so before applying electrical tape again, I filled the holes (before and after shots).

After that, I applied the electrical tape again (maybe I should have waited for the stuff to dry but I'm a little bit impatient).

I also filled in 2 of the holes in the middle (before and after shots again):

Now for the nuts and screws. These are for the holes on the sides to raise the back cover. The holes for these screws were too small so I had to increase them by gradually working my way up through 3 different drill bit sizes (again, before and after plus the metal shavings aftermath):

The holes are too big to hold the screws in now but that's fine because I want to use the screws and nuts for this anyway. For this, out comes the metallic cement again. I screwed the nuts onto the end of a screw, applied the metallic cement, stuck it on, held it while I got the screw it and scraped the excess away with a toothpick before it dried. The first application didn't have quite enough of the cement (second pic). I learnt after the first one though.

So here's all 6 of them on now:

Now I'm just waiting for it all to set. The instructions say a few hours to overnight depending on the thickness. It's only been an hour or 2 so I'll leave it a little bit longer.

Now that I think about it... one of those 6 nuts that I cemented on wasn't necessary... That part of the side is going to get cut away to make way for the backplate. Ah well, good practice anyway.

I'll have to do a bit of spacing work to figure out where everything is going to fit now. There is nowhere near as much space that I was thinking there would be! I don't know how I'm going to work it yet...