Hello boys, I present to you the project "frattura", this project was born from a cabinet intended for the landfill that will try to give new life The cabinet that i'll use is a Cooler Master elite 335, in its interior I install my old hardware: Asus M2A32 deluxe, AMD Phenom x4 9850, 2x Powercolor ATI HD 3870 crossfire and 6 Gb DDR2 Kingston HyperX 800 Mhz, certainly my hardware is not of last generation but my budget is very limited due to my large family But let's go back to the project, here is the cabinet in question Began work with draw on a cardboard the cuts of the side panel Removed the front Removed the excess material I made a shape from cardboard to take measures for the implementation of the new front This is the plexiglass i'll be using to provide the mod I started to prepare the smoked plexiglass for the front-piece total test of front Sorry for my bad english but i'm doing the best I can to write
I continue with the work on the front, I created the media to install the panels to the front I continue with the work on the front, I create a template to place the buttons and the logo cooler master
And now began to working behind the front and I try to reuse some components of the old cabinet Use this piece of plexi for support for buttons I drilled the front and the overlay I have created these circles of plexi to realize the buttons buttons off buttons on
Now start to working behind the front by rearranging the micro buttons for contacts of the power and optical drive Other small jobs involve the insertion of the cd-writer slim in the front test
I am back to work, I have removed the baskets hd I have also cut part of the front that did not serve and bother to the group buttons Test fitting the front Continuous with the machining of the basket series is too high I have prepared the back side panel of motherboard
I have made from an aluminum bar of angular installation in cabinet Now I have prepared this utensil cut of plexiglass orange And now I have started to use my beautiful utensil This is the first curve that will be positioned in the lower the second curve I continue ok!! Tomorrow I will posted the next work
Yes, I heated the plexi with heatgun for soften, then I put in the utensil and I made a pressure for about 3 minutes Thanks a lot boys Stay tuned for other developments
I cut the curves in plexi in 4 pieces that will form the two side walls Then i have stuccoed the two side panels Preparation cut side panel Cut panel Preparation cut the front of the panel cut panel Placement test And finally entry test curve in the bulkhead As you note from the last photo there is a bit of light between the plexi and the panel, but the finishing touches will bring them a little before the mounting of the curves Continuation of the cut right side panel And test orange inserts on the panel Soon for the new up
I started to work on the structure of the case I use a sheet of plexi from 1 cm to make the base of the case I rounded the corners, the plexi to the end of the job will be polished I created the four holes for anchoring test And now I start with the heavy work The structure of the houses cut in two :mrgreen: Other sparks Here is the result
Work began on the reinforcement of the structure Still sparks result result I cut the shroud And yet sparks, i think that of iron after the jobs will remain little iron Test psu mounting This plexi I repeat that the fan shroud and anchoring psu Test fitting to finish to take some measures Draft designed to make the idea of the finished piece
Surely you know these amazing powerful magnets in "neodymium" measure only 5x2 mm, will serve to stop the panels to the structure of the houses I have started to cut the plexi to do the cover to the power supply these are the side parts Resting on the media Upper part of the coating And the bottom and front During the jobs I realized that he had taken a couple of incorrect measurements and i had to remake a wall of the cover, from the photos you see in transparent plexi whereas before he was black I pasted the various pieces and this is the top of the cover frontal And rear panel fan/power supply, will be completed after the painting Mounting on structure And to finish a view to the rear of the case bye
I trimmed the corners of the cover psu and test fitting Use an aluminum rod to reinforce the front block of houses And installed You remembered the blow that had the houses? Ok you refresh the memory with this picture, the line is where i made the cut to divide the case and as you note remains a depression of the sheet Uploaded with ImageShack.us With a couple of hammered are managed to flatten it but the metal sheet is thinned and the excess material has endorsed the sheet in the center But in order to overcome the problem i have thought to apply an aluminum bar and paste it with the liquid steel to make it straight And the result is excellent (the latest for the finishes) After this, i have solved the problem that was troubling me for a long time i am past to raise the basket hd with two bars of plexi from 1 cm I have done all this work on the basket because i wouldn't have had space between the hd and the curve that will be part of the side panel Now i glistened on the next step of work that will be made on the side panels, today i did a test of gluing a t between plexi and sheet metal of the case, for the result of seal appearance tomorrow, I have more cut a couple of dozens of angles that will support for sealing the plexi after headlight of the recesses on the plexi for the hardware components See you tomorrow for the next step
Very cool idea! But a bit curious, where will the MoBo be if the mid-section is closed on both sides?
thanks Expect a little that I shall arrive soon to the solution of your question stay tuned I have had to make a small reconstruction of a part of the panel here in this photo you can see in the circle a small mistake of cutting Here the reconstruction of the missing part with the liquid steel And now the piece of plexi flush to perfection Here, instead, I pasted the angular to the panel And gluing of the curves in plexi to the panel In the meantime I pasted the rest of the corner pieces to the front panel And at the end i gave the first coat of "heavy" sanding to the panel, in the next few days, we pitch the planer to tape to remove the last few millimetres thick I glued all the panels and i sanded the plexi to bring it up to level of the panel Here you can see a small detail of an error on the right-hand panel , i will try to fix it along the way is a sin i was very careful to try and make them mate but i'll settle this too While the rear part of the panel on the right, and very close to the opposite panel Completely closed the panel on the left with the application of the plexi under the cover of the psu