Case Mod - In Progress "The NOTalis Project" by E.E.L. Ambiense & Mnpctech...."Snow storm halts install!"

not my style, but nice work none the less

 

Loving those last 2 shots, amazing how real the rust looks.

Top work

 

This photo rawks! I love all of the details.

 

This build is awesome! I'm thinking about doing a rust build with one of my old cases, great video as well!

Look forward to more updates

 

fixed that for you

 

Thank you for commenting and following our project guys

 

are you putting any front i/o back on?

 

hope to see the final shots in 2-3 days, guys

 

Fixed that for you.

 

Oct. 21 Update

No, no i/o on front; I'd say that's obvious, considering the custom front not having port openings for it, right?

I don't know where you're getting your information, guys, but there's plenty more stuff coming!

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Keeping the ball rolling, here's another update. Let's get to it.

This is the last night we worked on the project. It was basically the 3 night, but only spent 2 days on it. We were down to the wire at this point. And it was late; really late.

Continuing assembly of the front, let's get to the fan itself. It's a Xigmatek 140mm fan. Specs on it are pretty good considering the actual noise it makes.



After inserting the front bulgin and collar for it on the front, we need to drop the fan onto the back of the front panel. I really wanted to drop some 'weathered' mesh on the front as well to match the side grill, but in the interest of time (considering we had none) we needed to just finish the thing.



Now, here's where we ran into a slight problem. Again, it was late; really late. We were pretty beat and Bill wasn't feeling to hot health-wise either. Well, we kind of forgot to grab some screws from the hardware store for the fan mounting. We also didn't realize the bloody fan was closed-cornered too.





So, we decided to do things the hard way; mod the fan. Of course, that also assumes we have screws for that as well. If I recall correctly, the front screws were drilled and tapped for 8-32. So we proceeded to scrounge through all the little toss-piles of junk hardware laying around at MNPCTech HQ. We looked for probably 20 mins. or so and Bill was pretty much POed at this point, lol, but I kept looking. And sure enough, found four (4) screws that were just the right length and fit to mount the fan if it's modded. So we're back in business!

Bill quickly notched out the closed-corners on the fan with the trusty rotary tool. It's been a long time since I had to do that; I reminisced of the dark days of early Yates on radiators, lol.



And now it was a bit easier to get the fan installed. Quick spin of some screws with an allen-wrench and it's good to go!



Now the front can be installed properly on the front of the chassis. If you listen closely, you can almost hear the Transformers transforming sound while viewing these pics.







There's still more coming...

 

I bloody well hope so!

 

Looking good as always Bill! Cool to see a crust-mod again, seemed that fad came on strong and died just as quick a while back I love those fans, I own a few myself

 

Yes, E.E.L. and I talked about doing a rust theme for a long time.

The reaction I'm getting here is "Is it Ok to touch it?" ....lol

 

Sure! You would just require a tetanus shot afterward. Kind of like when attending a traveling carnival!

 

lol.

Thanks to everybody for watching and commenting. Jeremy has been working on a video with highlights of the build and his visit here. I hear it should be ready for viewing on Friday

 

I have? When was I going to be notified of such a thing?

 

We all know you guys are workaholics. Don't even try to hide it...

VIDEOOOOOO!!! NAOOOOWWWW!!!!

 

What already done video? I have no idea what any of you are referring to!

 

Just plead insanity. I'll vouch for you.

 

I think vouching for myself is enough!