Case Mod - In Progress Project: Orange Monster, 26 July 2006; Wire routing blocks 16.3.2014

Hehe if you don't look hard enough on that last picture it looks like electrical tape you're using on that sata power connector.

 

New monster feet...

Update time...at last

So I binned the old feet design, but now I'm back with the new one. On with the pics...





Essentially the design is the same, but in the new design both feet are made from one piece, should be much more sturdy this way (don't worry, these babies will hold the case up, I've actually stood on these and that's about 105kg of weight on them )



Can you say mirror...





Here are the acrylic feet attached with countersunk M4 hexheads. Again the lower piece has CF-vinyl coating on it





The feet are attached to the case with two M3 bolts which go in the original attachment points of the wheels...no extra holes needed...





I'd say that they look pretty good

I had some spare time at work today and I planned something that's probably going to mess my head when I have to make it, but it should be something that I'll bet you'll like...well we'll see now won't we

Hopefully I have something to update you on tomorrow...keep tuned.

Janne

 

Sweet but um yyou blew out the rear axle and its tilting...Sweet been waiting to say something important like praise

 

Thought that you'd be awake and surfing the forums hydro

Yeah, it's tilting until I can get the other feet polished and mounted, lol.

Janne

 

It's only 8 but I need to get to sleep soon. I am dieing. Ya but the thing looks great. Hope you get some progress done.

 

Pretty sweet, we are all dying all the time, our chances are 1/1 of dying you know.

 

The new feet look fantastic. No worry about those puppies stressing the bottom of the case. I can't wait for your next installment.

 

they look the shizz darkend!!!

 

I don't comment on project logs all that often because everything is usually said anyway, but I still follow most of the logs on here, especially yours. I have to say that those are some amazingly crafted feet, your craftmanship so far has been top notch. If things carry on like this, which I'm sure they will, this is going to be a mod to match any other.

Nice colour scheme be the way.

 

looks awesome dude. which aluminium alloy do u use?

 

great feet. love the polished aluminium. sweeeeet

 

dye is like coloring something that absorbs liquid to die is to be not alive or dead...

 

Standing ovation...

Back with the beaver hat!

Finished the second set of feet today and the case stands now on it's own

Some pics of the action...



This kind of pads were used under the feet to reduce some of the vibration and also this thing is going to be sitting on a glass table, so to protect that also.





After attaching all the feet things were looking like this. I'll tell you that it was a strangely proud feeling to see the monster stand on it's own for the first time after removing the wheels





From a lower angle...





...and finally some closeups

Hopefully I'll be back with another update soon, take care and also let me know what you think!

Janne

 

Unbelievably nice!
I'm thinking of making some similar to my own project ArcticIce

Those feet make the bottom more open, and are more friendly to the floor than mine atm. I have the rad in bottom of the case, so this is important.

Great work!

Petter

 

Damn, how have I missed your ArcticIce project, that bad boy is looking really good

If you are going to do something similar work with alu, hopefully you'll have better tools than I do, drillpress and the beltsander were a savior on this one, but cutting those pieces with a jigsaw wasn't fun, that's 20mm thick alu.

I'll be sure to follow your project as it goes on, mod on man!

Janne

 

Thanks, the feet I have was made by a guy that is very good at machining,
so I'll probably figure out a design that i like, i was thinking of having
5mm UV blue plexi at the bottom, like you, but with UV LEDS built in the foot.
UV blue plexi glows as hell in the edges when lit, so I think that would be nice.
Keep checking in on my project, watercooling and _much_ other stuff are arriving soon

Petter

 

Mods dont come much sweeter than this, how did you make the feet?

Looks very nice, i mite have to swap my girlfriend for that!

 

I guess this is somewhat an answer to how he made them

 

Thanks all, feet were made by hand mostly. Drawn on the maskingtape, cut out with a jigsaw (special alu blade + drilling oil) and drilled with a drillpress. There were 3 holes which let me attach both feet together for sanding so that they'd be as similar as possible.

After they were in the shape I wanted they were sanded with 100 and 240 grit dry and 240, 400, 600, 1000, 1500 and 2000 grit wet. After that they were polished with farecla 3 compound and a moist sponge-like "buffing wheel" attached to the drillpress. Finally they were handpolished with mothers mag and alu polishing compound (finally found some from finland, thanks again modsquad ).

That's basically it, I'm happy that you like them.

Janne

 

well u know we all love it darkend, its "toight"