Case Mod - In Progress G5 Sacrilege update Jun. 15th a tale of two doors

The fans arrived from Performance-PCs. Pictures this evening. They are so cute and I can only describe the color as gun metal. The sleaving job from Hank Baron's (fixed- JPH)people is spot on. Black mesh and black shrink wrap. It makes me kind of sad that the only people that will ever see them are our forum friends here. Pictures soon, I have to move the Cooler Master case and the Tivo Series 2 off the bench to shoot pictures.

John is happy!

 

John, his name is Hank Baron. Good guy! I'm probably at PPC's once a week or twice a month or so. LOL.

Don't worry about the sleeving jobs not being seen much; any of us that have ever purchased fans from PPC's knows the quality and effort they put into each order. Can't recommend them enough.

 

I will definitely be a repeat shopper there. Thanks to all the forum members that pointed me in the right direction.
John

 

anxious to see what they look like built into the case ..............


Alan

 

Need some more help!

I have received the mini-ITX boards that will be the brains for Sacrilege 2. BUT ....
I need a link to the manual for an EPIA 5000 mini-ITX board. Specifically, I need to know how to enable video. I have a couple of these boards that power up ( I hooked up a system fan to verify board is hot) but nothing comes out of VGA, S-Video, or composite output. I am using a bootable Linux distro in a CD ROM.
I know that these boards have WAY too many jumpers.
John

 

http://www.ultim8pc.co.uk/miscpics/epia_pin.pdf

i don't know if it is 10000% good one but this is the pinout for epia give mi about 4 hours and i will be afte my exam (methods of management and organization bleaah...) I hope this PDF will help

 

John manuals are available here: http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/mainboards/download_main.jsp
as PDF.
You just need to know the series of your mobo IE., SN, CN, EK etc.

This one seems to be the generic epia manual: http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/mainboards/downloads.jsp?motherboard_id=21

Also this site has loads of info but I don't have time to look around http://www.mini-itx.com/hardware.asp

 

maybe this will help you if this is the board :



found it on this page:
http://www.mini-box.com/VIA-EPIA-5000AG-Fanless?sc=8&category=99


Manual:
http://resources.mini-box.com/online/MBD-V-5000AG/MBD-V-5000AG-manual.pdf


Alan

 

Thanks for all the replies. I found the manual in several places. Now the fitting into Sacrilege begins in earnest
John

 

I got outside

Tired of being sick and tired? Try modding! I got outside today and had to 'mod" a grass catcher for my son for the lawn mower. Generic crap.
Since I was outside anyways and had most of the tools I needed, I pushed myself to work on Sacrilege. No more feeling bad for my self. I'm a modder.
I'll probably pay for it for a couple days but here's what I did.

Pictures follow:





scrap on the driveway:


I hope I got the shape right. No fitting yet and all "just a hair" too big. Need to chamfer the edges and do the final fit.











Just for scale mind you:


Now I can work on all the pieces in my room, after I throw away the jeans and shirt with the aluminum filings. I tried to work away from me but I live in Colorado and the wind always blows.

Front door and back panel next. I have a new Jetway mini-itx for this one and just got the 1 Meg DDR2 from eBay.

We get closer. What should take an hour now takes 4 but I can't ignore you guys.

John

 

good to see it moving forward!

 

Sad to hear you have health problems, I was wondering
what happened to this mod.
I hope you Get well soon.

 

This is really quite intriguing. Nice mod.

 

Good to see you modding again!
The sooner you get up and start moving around, the faster you recover.

 

i like the beer

nice project, gona keep an eye on it

 

i was also beginning to wonder about where this project was?

 

Nice to see u are back in modding!

Welcome back \o/

 

Case update and babie's new house

The weather in Colorado got nice and since people were wondering about this project - I went outside today!
I used the early morning hours and the shade on my patio to set up a work area. Grabbed the tools, the coffee cup, and Sacrilege and had some fun.



I decided to make the non-door side of the little case. On the full size case the top handles and the bottom feet and this side are all one piece. I will make it look like one piece again - just not as big. I had the top 2 handles and the 2 bottom feet parts riveted on for now so I need something to span the gap.



8 3/4 inches by 7 inches. I have always maintained that I would use as much of the original case as possible ... well ..



Somebody whacked a piece out of my Apple.

Took the cut out piece for a trial fit.



Not too shabby but the final grinding and fitting will square it all up.
Riveted the little rascal into place for another fitting. I had to square up the top handles a bit and the "front" edge is still not perfectly lined up but it's got the G5 shape.

and here:



The view inside still shows the original Apple locations for motherboard and wiring stand offs. I just ground them flat for the moment. Some of them are small indents that will be filled.



A lot to do yet! all the main pieces are here except the new door. That will not be as easy as just cutting this back piece. The door has a small lip on the bottom edge that fits into a slot between the feet part and the inner shell. I'll have to cut the door from and original door and keep the lip.

As the title says Sacrilege has a house! An original 1983 Apple carry bag for a Macintosh Classic. Babies house:



The factory macintosh tag and the full color Apple embroidered logo;

Mouse pocket on the top:


Side pocket for keyboard with no keypad and a velcro pocket for cords



The fresh air wore her out and she went to bed. ROFL



More to come soon. I need to finish with the JB Weld on the inner case and engineer the door.
All in all it was a fun morning. Took a bazillion times longer than it should because of breaks but we were bonding again and in no hurry.

John

 

Yay, John! <rubs hands together in anticipation of more updates>

 

Cool bag, the case is looking great.