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Why arent there any mass manufactored wooden cases?

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wood is extremely flammable, could start a fire if the mobo heats up a lot or something, could be dangerous and wood can be very weak sometimes, could break easily 

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Why arent there any mass manufactored wooden cases?

 

You can do, but wood can be heavy and expensive also tihngs to consider such as grounding and EMI, moisture, and warping/expansion with heat/cold

 

It would also have to be thicker, etc, since a thin sheet of steel is a lot more robust than a thin sheet of wood

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What do you mean grounding and emi? Can I ground it if I wanted? What about heat build up would the material affect that? And really fire hazzard?!!

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What do you mean grounding and emi? Can I ground it if I wanted? What about heat build up would the material affect that? And really fire hazzard?!!

How can you ground a wooden case if wood is non-conductive? EMI - electromagnetic impulse... Fire hazard - clearly you never had a reference AMD graphics card :D

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What do you mean grounding and emi? Can I ground it if I wanted? What about heat build up would the material affect that? And really fire hazzard?!!

dude, its wood, with components that are getting above 70c in most cases, OF COURSE ITS A FIRE HAZARD

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Errr... Because it's wood? It's extremely flammable and has shitty heat conductivity. 

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Lol, with a normal heat output of a pc, it's not hot enough to make the wood combust out of nowhere :D

Myself, I see no reason of having a wooden case. It would be heavy and extremely hard to make.

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fire hazard and not to durable plus it would have to have metal unless they got wood screws for components

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Lol no fire hazard people

Has to get to about 240 degrees c to burst into flames.

That won't happen

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Wood expensive per-se...

 

It also doesn't do a good job in heat dissipation... not to mention the accompanying fire hazard....

 

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Lol no fire hazard people

Has to get to about 240 degrees c to burst into flames.

That won't happen

Thank you someone for mentioning it....

 

Y'all need to take metal- and wood-shop in high school lemme tell ya. Wood does not usually catch fire, more so just scars the wood until you get into crazy temperatures (like over 100C) and let it bask in that heat for awhile.

 

If the wood is raw yeah, but I'm sure there are oils and paint out there with a lot lower combustion point.

True, but this is why you use vegetable oil.

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If the wood is raw yeah, but I'm sure there are oils and paint out there with a lot lower combustion point.

Not really, if something inside your case is hot enough to make the wood catch fire, it was already in flames. It could make a fire worse because there is more material to burn, but how likely is it that your components will catch fire anyway.

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dude, its wood, with components that are getting above 70c in most cases, OF COURSE ITS A FIRE HAZARD

Um sorry but no, there is very little risk of fire in a wood case.  The flash point of wood is in the range of 300+ degrees Celcuis.  So unless your PSU catches on fire, there is virtually no fire hazard in a wood PC case.

 

Some of the other reasons mentioned do sound plausible.  The biggest being cost.  To make it feasible it would likely be a laminated wood product (plywood) with hardwood veneer.  Very do-able for sure, but perhaps a little pricey.  Honestly I think the biggest thing is just that nobody has done it successfully yet.  If Corsair came out with a really well made wooden case, I bet it would sell really well and a lot of other companies would follow suit.

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Actually our company ran into this last year. The reason why wood isn't used? Export laws. Wood carries pests, even pressure treated and ply variants. Therefore in order to ship it overseas it must sit for several weeks for decontamination.

Not cost friendly in any way, especially since cases are manufactured and shipped on a global scale.

It does make a fun material to build out of though and it is very easy to customise and modify. Heat dissipation doesn't matter if you have good ventilation.

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Main reason why there aren't any mass produced wooden cases is cost.  Plain and simple.

 

 

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