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[DarkLord]

Okay, here is my 2nd attempt at dremeling a small slot in the original hard drive cover for the STacy,
to allow easy access to my internal Ultrasatan setup. (I made the opening too big in the first attempt).



Here it is again, with a SD card inserted.



Here is another shot, with a bit of an angle on it, so you can get some perspective.



And this last shot shows a side view, and how little space the internal arrangement
takes up, even with an SD card inserted.



I'm pretty happy with how this effort turned out. I've still got to tidy it all up and
work on some small blemishes and mars, but as far as the internal Ultrasatan setup
goes for my STacy, this is about it. We're "shiny".

[Official Ninja]

That looks great.

I really have to think about getting one of these devices. I have stacks of floppies building up all over the place.
I just ordered 100 more from epay.....

[DarkLord]

Further update - here is a few more pics, showing what I've been doing
when I can find time.

Okay, here's a pic of the modified floppy drive cable for my STacy. You can
also see Sean's HD mod tucked away under the left corner of the floppy
drive/hard drive cage.



Here is what the Sony 1.44m drive with the black faceplate (that Sean was
nice enough to find for me) looks like now, installed over top of the Ultrasatan.

I used a small dremel to make a slot for the Ultrasatan, and the same tool
to remove the old floppy drive facing for the original Atari style 720k drive.
Was thinking about using something like bondo to fill in the top middle slot
that's left, so it would be perfect rectangle for the floppy drive opening.

I think I'm going to go ahead and paint this entire "block", with the drive and
the Ultrasatan in it, black as well.





Oh just gotta say, all the changes I've made, like removing the battery compartment,
changing the floppy drive and hard drive bay openings, as well as cutting down the
internal RF shield has had a major side benefit...

The STacy is *much* easier to take apart and put back together now! Note carefully
that I'm still not saying its -easy-, but it is much easier than when it was stock.

[jens]

Hey, these are really nice works of yours, DarkLord!

[DarkLord]

Thanks, but its not really me. As the man said, "I'm standing on the shoulders of
giants" when I do this...

All of this is because of the great work by:

Jookie - Ultrasatan

AlanH - internal Mega STe/STacy Ultrasatan cable

RalCool - 1.44m HD floppy mod

These people rock!

[Lynxpro]

That's pretty impressive, DarkLord.

Does anyone have an UltraSatan mounted in a modded SF354 or 314 case?

[DarkLord]

Lynxpro, on Sat Dec 31, 2011 4:31 PM, said:

That's pretty impressive, DarkLord.

Does anyone have an UltraSatan mounted in a modded SF354 or 314 case?

Thanks! I've not seen any specific instances where someone has tried that,
but I can't think of a good reason why it wouldn't work. A little dremel work
on the case for access to the SD card slot, and figuring out how to mount
it inside, as well as making sure you're getting the correct voltage to the
US itself, and then it should work.

I guess you already know the original US comes in a small enclosure.