Case Mod - In Progress Project Streamliner (upd 23.12.14)

again with the detailing of your work - love that!!!
absolutely fabulous work

- but, in my humble oppinion, the lock and switch just does not look well suited for the front.
i'm not really sure what the alternatives would look like, but...

 

I rarely look through entire logs..but dam son..this is Outstanding!
Multi Talented you are...

 

Lots of lovely period features coming together with a colour scheme of the era.

And you get a rig that I could look at all day long.

Great stuff!

 

Very impressive work, and those videos, I'm speechless.

 

Instant case mod classic

 

Wooooooooooooooow...

 

Thanks!

Actually a lot of talented people took part in this project, including real auto mechanic. Thanks to him, you will see something special at the end.

Thanks

Welcome The switch has 2 positions. In the first one the button works as a power button. In the second one the button does not work. The presence of the key is an important element of visual style and also a good protection from little children who want to press everything

okay

Perhaps you are right about the lock and the switch, but they're already done.

Lots of talented people played their roles in this project

Thanks you

Thanks

Thanks Bill

 

Now continue the assembly of the front panel
The eyehole for disc indicator and 2 plugs. Steel, turning


Optical drive indicator will be visible through the piece of acrylic glass


The parts are chrome-plated and cut to the desired length


Tray eject button. Panel - laser cutting, 0.5 mm steel. Button was turned on a lathe


Assembled using the threaded pin and soldering


The surface is cleaned


All the parts are chrome-plated and prepared for installation in the optical drive bay


Blind holes with M2 thread for attaching the button


The animated show of button operation


Two left caps once were planned to be used as buttons, but during the work the need for them has disappeared


Rear view


The plates are held by the cap nuts screwed on the studs


Two bottom controllers are connected to the switching board


Front view




Panel placed


Switching board for upper LEDs and two independent channels of the "flame simulator"




Placed


Devices are connected




Plastic tray is sanded to a smooth surface. Chrome-plated panel is made from 4 mm brass bar.


Screwed to original tray




Optical drive on its place

 

Restored speedometer from the Soviet car GAZ M-20 "Pobeda" model 1949
And two stylized gauges


They were made by a professional vintage cars restorer from Voronezh city


Speedometer


The dismantling of the factory fastens. They've been attached with the contact welding, so it had to be drilled.


The caverns that appeared after dismantling fastens are sealed with brass and polished


Fitting new fastens


The fastens are adapted to the desired length and soldered with brass




To cover multiple factory holes in the speedometer I used plates of 0.5 mm steel made with laser cutting




All the extra holes are covered


The next is powder coating. The insides were protected from getting paint with aluminum tape


Double-sided adhesive tape for mounting the LED strip


LED strip with warm white light




Inside






Connecting


And reassembling the gauge






The speedometer is ready


Two stylized gauges


Surprisingly, they had a tin can as a case


After a few hours of wandering around grocery stores with a ruler I found the right can. It was filled with olives


Now I can make mounts that will fit on the front panel


The cans after machining


The fastens are mounted


The bottom of the can is hardened with 1 mm steel plate


Powder coating




Connecting the insides


Inside I also mounted LED stripe with warm light










Two little gauges are ready


All the gauges are prepared for instalaltion




Gauges placed


The speedometer will show the CPU load
Two little gauges will show the utilisation of storage space and amount of used RAM (both in percentage)


That's the look of the original speedometer in the car interior




GAZ M-20 "Pobeda" model 1949

 

OK, hands up who's seen an olive can used in a case mod. Nobody? Didn't think so.

This is a fantastic, inspired, project. My vote for mod of the month.

 

This is amazing!

What are the other (rectangular) instruments in the original car? Radio or similar?

 

You got awesome skills, this keeps getting better.

 

Daaaaaayyyyuuuummmmm

edit* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMHcQo23u5k

 

I figure that to use the clocks as you indicated you'll have to do some electrical circuit ?, or connect to somewhere special?.

This mod is amazing, i've been following from the beginning.

 

left to right: ampers -20 to 20, gas, water temp and oil (level?)

by the way my MOTM vote for streamliner

офигенный мод, так держать!

 

yeah, olive is good staff
Thanks for vote

"Vetalar" has written right: ampers -20 to 20, gas, water temp and oil level

Thanks

For indicators need a PCB with microcontroller and software.
This parts will be in the next update
Thanks for watching

Thanks, Bro

 

Part 6


Photos and description will come late

 

That switch box / electronics cluster is amazing, so much in such a small space!

How much wire trimming was required to get it quite so well packed without too much? Or is it just experience that you know how to estimate and measure it? Does it have any overheating concerns, or do those boards not kick out a lot of heat?

 

Such attention to detail.... Some brilliant engineering...... Fantastic use of materials......

Well done sir. Absolutely magic.

 

Once again I am amazed how much effort you have put into this. The custom wiring loom is superb, really fantastic work. And the stop motion animation is the icing on the cake. Love what you have done with the dials too, again this shows just how fantastically talented you are. Brilliant!!!