Case Mod - In Progress Project: Endorphin (Update 23/01)

Thanks guys

Yeah plexi is dirt cheap here in South Africa. A piece of pleci the size of that panel i made yesterday will cost me about R10 (south african rand), which will equal about $1.5 US, and less than 1 british pound

 

Oh WOW!!! A South African modder! I did not think I would see a SA mod on here. Excellent work dude!! I love your ideas!! And I agree, Prophecy is an excellent shop.

BTW: Where do you buy your plexi from? At that price? WOW! Ek sukkel my gat af om plexi in Ladysmith te kry.

 

Hahaha!!

Ja Dean hoe gannit dude?

Ek koop my plexi by Maizey, hulle is verskruklik (sp?) goedkoop

If you want, send me your address and what plexi you want, i'll send it to you

 

Thanx mate. I will definately keep you in mind when I attempt another mod of some kind. When are you finishing you website?

 

Well, that's not for me to know. lol. One of my sponsors, Advanced Creation Media, is building the site for me. It's taking a while because they developed a whole new CMS just for me. Should be done very soon though

 

So yesterday i had to do some pretty crap work. Look at this. This is the power switch:





Not any normal switch though. That switch plugs into this PCB:





Here's the back of it:





Now that interfaces with the motherboard, here:





Like so:







So there's no easy way of powering this thing. It doesn't have two pins on the board somewhere.

Anyway, after about an hour's work, i found the power and reset pins:





lol, how ghetto can a startup get!!





Okay, let's continue. Looky what i got for this mod today:





That's an X2 4400+. Not the greatest stepping, but hey, it's a 4400+. Added to my ever growing collection of A64/X2 CPUs (another two not in the pic):





I also did a crap load of dremeling/sanding/filing to the chassis. Random little edges like this needed to go:





So today i went and had some plexi cut. I could have done it by hand, but i needed all the pieces to be of IDENTICAL size, and i figured a laser cutter would be simpler





Those are for the face of the case, and these too:





Clear panel test fitted:





Perfect. Only bummer is that we had to cut at 75 DPI, which sucks, and gives rounded corners like this:





More sanding for me eh?

An idea of what the layout of the front will be:





Masked up almost everything, but ran out of masking tape:





I also started work on the piece of plexi that will be on the inside of the front of the case. Marked out and ready for cutting:





Cut out and test fitted:









Perfect.

So tomorrow i'm gonna try and finish the front. Hopefully i'll get it done.

God Bless

Ett

 

Good work DAE_JA_VOO. Hey pick up some of that plexiglas and next time youre in the area drop it off OK? (lol) I need some 1/4" bronze tinted 24 X 48".

 

Nicely done so far Dae I am glad its not me that have to sand those corners.....

 

nicely done mate w00t.

Go the SaFa's!!!

my boss's dad is a SaFa...

anyways .. w00t!

 

that same piece of plexi wehre i am from is around $20 american, more including tax and shipping

 

Thanks guys

Sure no problem. I mean, i fly to ohio every couple of days you know, to drop of plexi at other friends of mine there.

That's madness

 

Madness? This is the U.S.!!

Sorry, couldn't resist.

 

yeah, prices on raw materials in the US are ridiculous. almost makes me wanna get up and move to Europe right now...lol

 

lol. No plexi prices in South Africa are very low

 

Update time.

I masked up the plexi face pieces and the extra red pieces:





Holes drilled and test fitted. Man, it's looking sexy even still covered in masking tape:









Time to do some more work on the chassis so that i can get this face fitted. So i masked up what i needed, marked the holes, and drilled them:





Test fitted again. OMW it looks amazing:







From inside:





Close Up:





Flash on:





Man, it looks awesome in my opinion, and i'm very happy with the result.

I still need to sand and polish the edges properly.

At the moment i'm busy figuring out how to mount the motherboard cover. Having a bit of a hard time but i'll figure it out eventually.

Enjoy

Ett

 

I find it disturbing that I can read/understand ZA. But I'm Flemish, so yah. And you have fun words like "prikpop". Hehehehe. Hehehehehehehehehe.

Good mod, once again. Very nice progress!

 

im liking this mod its freakin awesome!

 

looking good.

 

Looks good

 

ROFLOL!!

Dis nou 'n woord wat ek nog nooit gebruik het nie!!

It really does look great Dae - I will be PMing you soon about that plexi offer...