GRDN's RAM Picture Frame - DDR3 RAM Bracket

Project is WIP

Parts of the series:

• CPUs (available for AMD)
• Motherboards (WIP)
• RAM (this, available for DDR3 so far)
• Memory (WIP)

Background

Over the last couple years, I came across a number of companies offering (disassembled) tech displayed in picture frames; usually featuring some key specifications.

I really like the idea and looks, and decided to turn some of my old PC components into nice wall-art. Instead of them lying around in the basement, this honours some of our most loyal companions with a 2nd life :)

This series is about attachment brackets/supports, that help you fixating various PC components. Especially to display them in picture frames but I guess you define the use case!

Description

This printable features a bracket to hold RAM sticks (DIMMs). The bracket can be glued onto paper or any other base material for picture frames.

The bracket is designed narrow with 130mm between the two “ears” (measured width between the click-in-notches is 129.7mm). That means, taking material shrinkage and printing inaccuracies of 0.1mm into account, the RAM stick should clip perfectly into the bracket with no play. Therefor, no glue is required. The bracket can then be glued onto the background sheet with four small drops of superglue along the backside.

Usually, RAM sticks aren't to dirty. If they are, they can easily be cleaned with Isopropylalcohol (Isopropanol). To remove superglue from plastic in case of any positioning errors, use simple vegetable oil or a moisturizer creme.

Note that the bracket is only designed to hold bare DIMMs without any heatsink/RGB/…
In case your RAM is still housed by a heatsink/shielding and you want to remove the housing, try to heat the stick with your hairdryer or a heat-gun and gently remove the housing (usually its only glued to the stick).

If you want to keep the housing, a file with slightly higher “ears” is included; though im not quite sure if it fits. Probably will update that one.

An A4 file for the background is included, though only for the shown Kingston specs.

You can easily create your own one with Powerpoint or Word.
Unfortunately, I cannot attach Adobe Indesign files.
Feel free to write a comment with your requested CPU and I will create a background PDF for you.

A picture by picture manual follows.

Printed in PETG (Bambu PETG Basic), though I guess any form of PLA will work fine as well.

The used picture frame is a 23cm (picture size) black MDF frame:
https://porta.de/p/intertrading-bilderrahmen-iceland-21-x-30-cm-schwarz-0130496.05

This is my first project in the community; I am open for any hints/suggestions :)