Sounds like a case of over engineering... should have just replaced the red tape
In a previous life I had IDE CD drive an hdd in a 2 bay CD tower. I hand soldered an IDE cable to the cd tower scsi connector then mounted a matching connector on the 1200 to the internal IDE port. Was a nice idea but at that age I didn't have patience to make good 80 odd solder joints and was forever waggling the cable to get the machine to boot.
Yer collection looks awesome btw, don't think I'd ever want to come out of that room, too many toys
