PiDP-10 Built

[Anthony Cunningham]

Well it's taken a while but I'm pleased to report that serial number 059 was finished this morning.

Just one question about the cover plate for the Raspberry Pi. I secured the Pi to the nylon spacers using four screws from the kit but now I see that there's nowhere left to secure the cover plate. Should I have secured the Pi differently?

Thanks,

Tony

[Andy]

you mean as shown?

[Anthony Cunningham]

Not quite:

[Steven A. Falco]

The build instructions say to drill two holes in the cover plate where the heatsink mounting clips are located so the cover plate can "sit neatly" on the back of a Pi5. It also says you don't have to drill the holes - it should in theory still fit.

However, I personally don't like the idea of jamming the cover plate right up against the Pi. You might want to consider picking up some 2.5mm spacers which will let you avoid drilling the holes, and provide some clearance and make it easier to get the SD card in and out.

Something like https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B7SNCFF1 should work. I suppose you could even use plastic spacers like https://www.amazon.com/COMRUN-M2-5-Standoff-Assortment-Motherboard/dp/B0CKBWQSNY too.

Steve

On 3/28/25 12:18 PM, Anthony Cunningham wrote:
> Not quite:

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> On Friday, 28 March 2025 at 16:02:31 UTC Andy wrote:
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> you mean as shown?

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> On Friday, March 28, 2025 at 6:00:33 AM UTC-4 anthony.j....@gmail.com wrote:
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> Well it's taken a while but I'm pleased to report that serial number 059 was finished this morning.
>
> Just one question about the cover plate for the Raspberry Pi. I secured the Pi to the nylon spacers using four screws from the kit but now I see that there's nowhere left to secure the cover plate. Should I have secured the Pi differently?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tony
>

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[Chris Hobbs]

And if you happen to have access to a 3D printer, these work very nicely as well: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6809188

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[sunnyboy010101]

In my case, because I added a bottom-hat M.2 SSD drive to my R-Pi5, the supplied mounting screws didn't work. I ended up buying a set of brass standoffs to mount my R-Pi to the back. That allowed me to attach the cover plate unaltered and still give me plenty of air gap (again thanks to the collection of standoffs used).

[R Clark]

Congrats on your build! 

I never put any of the back plates on. Being on a shelf, that back will never been seen except by me.  One of things I did do was put a 90 degree USB-C adapter for the power input so that cable doesn't stick up, but out.  I'd do the same with the HDMI if I used it.

[Tim Radde]

Same here.  Never put the backplate on my 10.  No one will see the back but me and I figured it would stay cooler with no back cover at all. I do have my -8 and -11 in their boxes but they run on a Pi 3 or maybe a 4.  The -11 also has no back cover.  I did the same for the USB cables on all mine, using short stubby 90degree USB cables. I route them out the hole in the back I cut for the 8 so I don't have to take the back off.