
G5 Versavision MOD quilicus "The other day I have been comfortably seated in front of my G5... when I realized how much wasted space there is behind the Apple Cinema Display and that the lateral side of the Tower has no practical use neither... which made me redistribute devices on my table... but that was not the only excuse. I wanted to elevate the screen a little, and spare myself the trouble with my back..."

Materials:

Power Mac G5
Apple Cinema Display HD 23"
Wood plate
Apple Vesa mount for Cinema Displays
Vesa kit mount to hang in a wall
Metalic painting tin
Aluminum plate
Various screws

Tools:

Saw
Milling machine
Dremel to polish
Screwdriver, dills & traditional wood tools
Painting sprayer

Mac Specifications :

Power Mac G5 Dual Proceessor 1.8 ghz
3gb RAM - Kingston (2x512 + 2x1gb)
Ati Radeon X800 XT 256mb <-- Perfet for Versavision :)
Two Seagate 200gb - Raid 0 (with external securty copy)

Intro:

The other day I have been comfortably seated in front of my G5... when I realized how much wasted space there is behind the Apple Cinema Display and that the lateral side of the Tower has no practical use neither... which made me redistribute devices on my table... but that was not the only excuse. I wanted to elevate the screen a little, and spare myself the trouble with my back...

Fortunately, ATI display actualization coincided as well making 9600 support VersaVision (9600 was the one I had before x800) so I decided to give it a try...

All these prerequisites made me focus and spring this modding out...

I'd like to stress that it still needs polishing... there are details to improve, as round up wooden panel borders (already pointed out in this Forum and by other friends of mine). Let's say we are dealing here with a first draft of an idea, since Apple VESA Mount kit cannot close 90o pivoting, so I'm taking advantage of it being square to switch screwing it firm in horizontal or vertical position.

Assemble Guide:

It's very simple and fast, "this is de quid of the question".

First, we saw the wood to the g5 cover's measures and the aluminum plate too.
The aluminum plate, its to conserve the Faraday's case.
It's necessary mill the border of the new wood cover

Now, extract the guide of the original cover and srew it in the new wood cover.

Reduce with the dremel or gouge the down part of the inside cover to screw a metal plate for shoehorn use.

Bore with drill the wood to screw the vesa kit. It's necessare measure and test the position of holes, depending of the tft measure or as you prefer, and consider the 90º turn of the tft.

Test it in the g5 tower, and made two foots to wear and prevent the weight of the tft (no accidents, please.

Painting

When it dry, only mount the vesa kit in the wood plate, disassamble the tft foot and replace by the apple's vesa mount kit, assemble all and hang on the vesa kit (in the wood)

In my mod, the vesa kit, its too simple, you can change this for a 90º pivot kit. When i can turn the tft, it's necessary off-hook (in this vesa kit its too simple, no screws) and unscrew the four screws in the union of the apple's vesa kit and the wall vesa kit, turn, srew it, and hang one more time :)

The reason because i use wood it's simple, i save the original pieces, the tft foot and the original cover. And if i need change this config to original, its so simple!