Case Mod - In Progress Project : Make it shine : Finished : 3/20/10

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My mission was to take this and make it shine (hence the name)



The enclosure striped and naked



My work space, everything was going to be hand sanded



Here it is after 60 grit, which in hind sight was too rough of grit



After 120 grit



The center part after 1000 grit, I'm thinking I'll have to redo the 320 grit on this because it isn't very uniform



Since my arm was pretty much nub I decided to call it quits for the day. BTW I started at 2:30 pm and stopped at 10:00 pm



And my workspace after



Tomorrow's another day

 

Interesting so far mate, will check back to see where this goes - starting with that case I've got high hopes!

 

No pics but I did make some head way in the sanding


More work tomorrow

 

nice work

 

That's a lot of sanding. You may have the paper turned around the wrong way too.

 

Good luck with this one - i did it with a Wavemaster a while back which turned out great and contemplating doing it to an 840.

Hard work though when you're doing it by hand as you're finding but keep at it as the results will be well worth it

 

No, I'm sure I was sanding, I have the filthy water to prove it

It will turn out, and if I can't get it polished just right I'll leave it at 2000 grit and make it look like the lian li super fine brushed finish

 

Starting out with rubbing compound, a microfiber and a good attitude



After piss poor result of both hand polishing and the rubbing compound I decided to use Mother mag polish and a dremel (knock-off) with cotton tips



I got dirty but also some really good results



The pics speak for themselves




Bling bling



And my HDD back in it's happy, polished home



If I'm not doing anything tomorrow I'll try to finish the outer case

 

Nice and shiny hdd case.

 

Thanks


I'll probably sand more tonight but no pics because they're kinda boring. I hope to have this project wrapped up by next weekend.

 

Sorry no pics (maybe later tonight) but everything is sanded down to 1000 grit on the outer case after 4 hours. This weekend should be all about polishing and getting this project wrapped up.

 

Another 4 hours today got me down to 1500 grit and a good start on 2000 grit. Tomorrow should warp up this project so I can start another one

 

All done, time to clean up



Another project done



Pics speak for themselves



My room via the reflection



Not a great pic but it show even the visible inside of the outer shell is polished



It's desktop comrades





My next project is to paint one of the other 2 enclosures flat black, see you in the next project log

 

I request that you turn the lights on and take another picture!

 

Considering it was 11pm and there wasn't a full moon, lighting was pretty poor. Here are some pics via you're request.

The top



Hopefully this meets you're standards






Overview

 

B-E-A-U-Tiful!

 

Oh wow. That's gorgeous.

 

Thanks, be sure to tune into my next project log, it should be up sometime next week

 

It's like a mirror, great job!