Case Mod - In Progress Betong - Finished - 18 August

Concrete sidepannels...really? Awesome!

Won't it weigh like a gazillion pounds with concrete pannels?

 

naah, seems like they are quite thin but a couple of kilos yes

 

Probably
The concrete panels is not that thick, just around 10mm. But of course it will be heavy, but its nothing i will moving around, to LAN and stuff

 

My concrete panels have cured during the night. They have a more grainy texture now.



Worked some more on the DVD front and fitted the power button at the back of the case.
(Case is upside-down)

 

How to hide the eject button on the DVD

#1 - One piece of thin wood stripe.


#2 – A groove in the front to fit the thin stripe.


#3 – A large hole in the front, you never know where the eject button is on other devices if you decide to switch it later on.


#4 – A extension on the eject button.


#5 – Glue it all together.



My last update for a couple of weeks, going on my summer vacation now. I'll be back in the workshop again in 3 weeks to complete this project.


Last picture of some hardware.
“Asus E45M1-I Delux”, enough power for a HTPC and 5 sata ports, perfect for storage.

 

“Finally” back to work after my vacation.

Well my concrete plates have cured during the past weeks and I took them out of the molds and glued them to my panels.






Also made a purchase of a SSD that i will use as my system drive.


For the first time i did a testrun of my system and istalled Windows and some programs.



Expecting to to be ready with everything in the next week

 

Ooo I like the combination of concrete and wood, very nice indeed!

 

Thank you

 

I love how awesome concrete looks, are you planning on polishing it or keeping the natural grainy finish?

 

Keeping the grainy finish, but will put on a coat of varnish to protect and change the color slightly.

 

All done with the case.
Tomorrow it's time to take it home and install some hardware and get it running

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Hahahahaha! How brilliant-concrete case.

Good job,mate.

 

Thanks

 

Simply amazing!

 

Finaly done with this project

Assemble all the parts.




Right now i have one 3GB drive plus two 1GB drives.








Allso puting up some final pictures in hi-res at imgur
http://kryll.imgur.com/

 

Very elegant!! I´d like to play with concrete soon... It´s a good material, and it´s cheap.

 

Thanks (again )
Can really recommend it, fun to work with and looks nice. And you can make it look so different, from the "raw" look I did, to hi gloss finish.

 

Very contemporary and sits in well with your existing furniture good job well done!

 

Nice

 

Thanks, made the TV bench to. Finished it a couple of weeks before I started with this project.