The quick-disconnect terminals came in the mail so in the evening I went to put them on. Then I realized that they need to be crimped in order to put them on and I don't have a crimping tool. So after dinner I went up to Home Depot to pick up a tool that can do that. Okay, so back home, I get the terminals crimped onto the wires and yay I'm ready to plug it in! So the board came with these machine-screw standoffs which work by screwing INTO them from the bottom (i.e. coming in from the outside of the case). I figured I could just take them off and screw wood screws in their place. So I took them off and it worked for the bottom two holes, but for the top two...the giant heat sink was blocking the whole top side of that part of the board and you can't screw anything in from the top, you can only screw into it from the bottom. But the way my case is, I can't screw a hole in from the outside. So I reached a bit of an impasse right at the final step, just trying to screw the board down (which I didn't think would be the difficult part at all!). I was even brainstorming with Graham about it online. I have a vision though of straight brackets that I could machine-screw to the back of the board, then where they stick out on the side, I could wood-screw them to the case. Well I guess I need to try to find some brackets if they're the right size. This is more of a pain than it should be!
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