Slam Dunk: Power Mac G5 Panel Morphs into Basketball Backboard

CoM reader Paul sent us these pics of his office where the IT department shoots hoops on a backboard with an Apple logo.

After the cardboard backboard from the Nerf caved in under one too many slam dunks, Paul had a brainwave:

“As we were scrapping an old PowerMac G5 for parts, I realized that we could recycle the door to become our new heavy backboard. Two short screws were used to attach the plastic bracket to the door and another two longer ones to go into the concrete pillar in the office wall.”

Slam Dunk: Power Mac G5 Panel Morphs into Basketball Backboard

The Mac backboard from the side.

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http://bloqhead.com Daryn St. Pierre
What a brilliant way to recycle. I have PowerMac G5 and those doors are super sturdy. You could probably run them over a few times and they’d still pop back into place.
Carl
this is in the NJ Office of the Attorney General
flange bardgeholly
these are much more inventive than what i did. i left my dead one at the end of the driveway and some poor schmuck stole it.