Hey guys, I finished the coarse work on the second plexiglas today (rasping, coarse sanding): So next will be finishing the missing "edge" parts (24 short corner parts, 20 long corner parts and around 200 spacers) before i can keep on assembling the whole shell. for now it is standing on the bottom frame, remade the guidings and that's actually working now): as always, i hope you like it and see you on the next...step
hey guys, so after alot of printing i was going to paint all the parts and...the color just f'd me with cracks so i ordered some other paint and that also f'd me - massive bubbeling even tho the paint was warm, well shaken etc - 3 different caps, no effect. so after all, i was sanding out the bubbles and now i can progress with other things. but first i want to thank BeQuiet for being part of this project, supporting me with: - a SFX-L 600W 80+ gold PSU - 80mm Pure Wings 2 i can't go ahead and just complete the shell, as i have to design the stuff for the hardware first. this happens again just as always, building it on the way... so i can have the shell kinda half way put together: and designing parts like the fan holder (needs more parts in the end) or the PSU mounting on the way. first i wanted to put a base acrylic plate in and build up from there, but i changed my mind and will use threaded rods again, but in another way. still got something nice upcoming, but i am not there yet, from bottom to top. thanks for being interested, have a nice day!
Those end plates should fix any rigidity issues. It's looking good. Paint bubbling usually means 'too close, to much applied in one pass.' -I should know. It's how all my paint turns out.
thanks man! it will be very tight, had it almost together before to test it out...but still for now i need to get the hardware part in, which i am printing the next few days. for that paint, it just bubbled out of the cap (used 3 different ones) with low and high pressure. i guess it was just a bad pick...again, but it came out better than i had expected in the end. should be good too see then once the top parts are done.
Hey guys, update time - i feel like huge progress but it's maybe not that much. =) i kept printing stuff for my "hardwarewagon" which in the end looks a little bit like a spider. (16 parts printed after another and glued together, after measuring everything out and designing it on the "fly") to my suprise it did fit well and also worked pretty good (sure, not all the hardware there yet but we will get there. and just for some nice looks i decided to go ahead and put the parts that i have finished together to see if i need to change anything (i actually don't need for now) so up next will be painting that spider thing, can't stay lavendel - and finishing up the rest of the parts to get the shell closed. what do you think of it for now? as always: thanks for following the log!!
Are you putting radiators on those little tabs? You might want something that ties the top of the rad assemblies to the motherboard tray. I can see those sagging potentially.
not planning to watercool, although it would be pretty neat running it with 80mm fans and everything on that hardware-wagon (or slider, whatever it is). for now, its just holding each side a 3x80mm fan "box" (wanted it to look cleaner) which hopefully help bring air into the system. just finished that one, the other one is printing right now.
atm making changes to the inside (2x 80 each side, using the third "spot" for ssd or something). also need to cut all the cables by a fair amount, it's cables everywhere (only need about 10cm from PSU to MB). but, in the meantime i thought it would be nice to have a first look at the whole thing (even tho 3 plexiglas parts are too short because i first wanted it to be around 25cm depth): thats how it will look, shouldn't change that much anymore on the outside. cheers!
hey, while waiting on the plexiglas to continue i figured that all the hardware actually flattens my wheels (first ones were with foam rubber). so i had to try something else. i decided to take the rubber thing normally used to guide cables through, which stays the way it is even with the weight on top. maybe i can get a longer rubber of those because actually i just patched it together. also i changed the 3x80mm fan boxes to 2x80mm with space for a 2,5" ssd or anything else in that size. once the rest of the plexiglas arrives, i hopefully can start closing the back and wait for response of some contacts. thanks for following along, cheers!
