The housing I created for my ACE is basically the housing as used on the ACE 4000 model.

This model was was made from injection molded parts, as opposed to the first ACE which was made using vacuum-forming.

The difference is clear. The edges are smoother, and the top section just sits on the bottom section like the lid of a shoe-box. Five plastic pins then fix the top to the bottom, similar to how it was done on the ZX-80. Now i was actually quite pleased with my version, but recently Alejandro reached out to me. Apart from the fact he is also buiding an ACE clone, he also owns an original one. And he offered to send me some exact measurements on the housing so I could modify my model in such a way that it woud fit an original PCB and look more like the first ACE.

So thats what I did:

Its not perfect yet, and though it should fit my own PCB, it looks like the connectors on the original PCB do not line up, but its getting there.

And it looks like it just fits my build plate:

Lets see how that works out.

But before I got round to printing it myself, Alejandro already had it printed at a professional printing service, and that looks really good:

Here it holds the original ACE circuit board and keyboard. According to Alejandro the measurements are just a little bit off, but that does not seem to be a real problem here.