Scratch Build – In Progress Project Stealthlow - Completed - preview of project next

It's been an up & down year for life but for modding it's been goooood, interesting, frustrating but most of all satisfying & fun & that lifts the blues nicely, thanks GNU .

Freshly thought of, designed, printed & cut pieces for the sata data cable casing, now it's time to bend them .

 

Cable management is always a pain!! Very clean wrapping, though, I would have tucked them in tighter, like closer together somehow. You should make a copper conduit piece to hidden all the wires. That would look pretty awesome, keep up the good work.

 

Cheers Cleveland216 got it all figured out, adjusted 2 of the clips I had spare which hold it all in better & working on the sata data cable tidy case .

I would have had something pretty sweet to show today but found I have run out of epoxy resin so had to call it a day after searching all over the garage for adhesives.

While I'm out posting KidMods fan bits I'll pop around to B&Q to find a quality strong adhesive, all the bending is done though & all the pieces are brushed, it basically is conduit but fancy conduit should look nice & in tune with the theme.

Caught I think my first cut of the mod during making this update was cutting an extra piece to aid in placing the bits spot on & the blade worn out & broke, turned it off & gave the sheet alu a fast wipe with my hand & it felt bad like I just dug in & slashed myself with a razer or something, looked at my hand & part of the blade had dug itself right into my finger about 8mm in with a couple of mm hanging out with the teeth going in the worse way to pull out so carefully yanked it out & cleaned it up, damnit thought I'd get through this unscathed but near the begining of this log I dropped a vice on my foot but very luckily just had a very sore foot for a while I'm amazed I didn't bust my foot properly from that .

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Got some epoxy resin & posted KidMods fan bits now it's time to pick up where I left it .

 

Wooo hooo got the epoxy resin, I went for 1 I've used before & has proven it's worth (araldite rapid steel) since there was no JB weld at B&Q lol I almost bought a tube of liquid metal but I figured with such a huge amount of adhesive for only £3 more than the araldite which you get a tiny amount in comparison I figured it wouldn't be as good.

Anyway on with this sata data cable case update, it's a mix of 2mm alu as a 5mm strip with extra ears with mount holes in to attach to the mobo panel which goes from near the bottom of the 2nd level to just below the 8 holes I made for the pass trough's so it bolts on when all the cables are plugged into the mobo & 1mm alu & 1mm copper bent to make a nice cover to hide the horrors of the sata cables had to get my bending brake out for these though for the 5mm ends was too much for the weak ply wood & had to use the brake in a conventional & unconventional way to get all the right bends.

Here's what it all looked like after thinking, designing, printing, sticking & cutting & before bending.


All laid out waiting to be stuck.


A kind of half arsed jig it was the middle piece that cut me, simple basic piece like that compared to all the other bits & that cuts me lol .


Couple more shots of the pieces.




And the extra copper details that I nearly put on the fans but scrapped the idea, they look kinda nice on this piece but undecided if I'll stick them on or not, if I do I'll cut some alu pieces to place on the copper bits too kinda looks like some kind of marzipan .




By the time I finished placing the last couple of pieces with adhesive it had already started setting so had to remove the last 2 & clean off the partly dried adhesive & re stick them.




Once things had set after 10 minutes I went all around the piece with a razor blade to take off any excess adhesive & took a few shots, it takes about 8 hours for it to fully cure.






Up next for this is to very carefully brush it as 1 piece & then lacquer it .

 

Look very nice, how you bend the alumnium?

 

Oh my oh my that is puuuurrdyyy!

 

Sweet.
Just plain awesome, love it!

 

That's STUNNING - simply put.
I'm SO glad you got that good camera - fap fap FAP!

 

Oh, I like it better without those "eye"-things on top. Just the bent pieces side by side.

 

Thanks robi .
One of these, had it since my 2nd scratch build & it doesn't get used much but is there for when I need it & sometimes do , I did try doing it with ply wood in a vice & was doable for 2 of the bends but the 5mm end ones needed something stronger so got my brake to work, had to use it the regular way & an irregular way because of the closeness of the opposing bends so for those bits I just used the break for keeping it clamped while I pushed it with a piece of ply wood .

Cheers Razer .

Thanks KidMod .

Thanks Nutman .

That's 1 vote so far not for the extras , it'll make it easier & be done sooner anyway if I keep them plain thanks for the feedback on that mate .

 

that is just soooooooooooo beautiful.

 

YEAH! I hoped you would do something about those And also knew it

Taking it up, and up, and up, and up several levels at a time buddy!

 

Yay More shinies

 

Thank you jokkos .

Cheers p0Pe .

cheers mate .


To install hardware .

 

woooohooo man!

 

Cheers Razer .

Updated the mobo bios to the latest & got all other latest updates ready for a switch over yesterday, then got started at around 8 PM putting hardware in & getting the cable work done & installing win 7 & finally got it running, fully up to date & fully optimized & made a ghost image, took all night to do it all but I'm now typing from Stealthlow right now & woooooooo it's really nice & quiet & looks really good running, I took a good few photos of it during the night while I was putting all the hardware inside so I'll get them up in a mo , the noisiest part is the GPU, the RGB power cable though I'll need to get a new one, I was slimming it down so I could slip it underneath the hdd platform & I believe I cut an internal cable on it so need a new one so I haven't put the side panels on yet since it needs that last thing sorting but won't be able to get it until next Wednesday, other than that though it's all done & I can finally get stuck into a good game .

Still a night with lights & day photo shoot to do on this also .

 

Now wheres the pics???!! come on, post 'em!

 

wow... that sata cable duct looks awesome
congrats

 

Thanks mate, only problem now is I kind wish I made it so it covers them completely, I just did it so it goes to just below where they pass through, but it's good still .

Righty oh then .

All done except for the RGB lighting which will have to wait, (knackered the power cable for it) but I can finally relax knowing that's the final bit, everything molex or fan related cables is nicely stashed underneath the hdd's so with the mass of wires going through the small mouse holes I had to make them bigger because of the switches for the lights on the fans so this pile of shots in bad lighting will be the last picture update until I get the RGB lighting sorted & then I'll put some effort into the photos at day & night, so I'm gonna get the weight back on & enjoy some good games until I can resume this, been feeling starved of some good gaming .

32 photos so might have to do 2 posts in at least 2 forums I post at.

Like this under both hdd cages .






















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In use finally .












I love the unique light the fan holders project .








So, a little wait for the new RGB light power cable & then final shots, these are just to show it's now in use, mostly crappy shots I know but it's 99.9% complete now yaaaaaay I keep getting random big grins knowing it's in use now .

When I walk into my room I can't even hear it & it's sat right next to my monitor so it's awesomely quiet, just the gpu that I can hear & that is with the side panels off , time I got around to completing alice madness returns at last but I'll have to start from the begining again since I'm on a new os install on the super duper corsair force 3 120GB or the Yin Yang 120GB as I'll call it, here is a quick bench I did on the reads, veeeerrrrrry niiiiiiiice .


Oh yeah the temps are better than air cube to my amazement, was expecting warmer temps but it out does the air cube by a few celcius which had much more air flow but this I really thought about the flow on how to make it work best & I'd call this my first perfect design .

Forgot to weigh this beast so I'll weigh it when it's done .

 

magnific work! congratulations