Sponsors: Bilxtra, Mo i Rana - One fake bulgin buttom with out light 3DfxCOOL.no - 6* UV katodes (30cm) plus inventors My School - Pays 200 NOK on the project Sketchup drawings Gonna engrave flames on the sidedoor plexi pluss a part of the logo. Everythings here are going to be upside down The front are gonna be almost the same, ony a display are coming later and a "bulgin" buttom are gonna be mounted in the front Topwindow are gonna be the same shape as the sidewindow. Only the flmes are gonna be engraved on the top. Hardware: - MSI KM3-M (M-ATX mainboard) - AMD 2000+ Athlon @ 2,1 GHz (Load is a little over 40c°) - 2x 256mb Crusilal DDR-SD memory with CL 2,5 - A old Soundblaster soundcard - integrated GPU on 32mb (will soon be a FX5500 on 128mb) - 20gb Firebal OS disk, 120gb WD disk - LG DVD-RAM burner - Floppy The case that's going to be modded: Any coments? Discussion tread
Tools and stuff Things bought from Biltema Drill, jiggsaw, files og drills Dremel and a flat sander Update 27.02 Ripped the case for plastic Turned the case upsidedown The backside, gonne be a 120mm fan there The front ATM, not when I'm done with it My friend in action, I did 90% of the cutting. Strange I'm not at the picture. After cutting After som grinding, sanding and my niddle files. The sidedoor without a window are almost sanded down. Hmm... We forgot tho take pictures of the sidedoor, I'll throw some pictures in the next update of it when I'm done working on it. Any coments? Discussion tread
Update 28.02 The bottom sanded down Driling the holes for screws for the plexi and for the aluminium plate I'm laying under the sidedoor to use some bondo to will the holes in the door. Steffen cuting wrong in the sidedoor :x Finish with cuting the alu and I have sanded the door down. Any coments? Discussion tread
Update 01.03 Some bondo should do the trick I used silicon to gleu the aluminium to the steel Looks like we dont need to sand it more before painting I used p80, p240 and rubbigng compound. And we was also finish with sanding tho other sidedoor almost clear for painting. Any coments? Discussion tread
Update 02.03 Took some stuff from home with me, paint, holedrill, paint, tape and some 8mm lexan Found some sleeving i had laying around Finaly after much sandin i can finaly see some metal Then i started on the fan hole in the back A little overview UV Red Plexi *love* The spons from Bilxtra a fake bulgin buttom, cost much less and looks almost the same. Gonna use this one as a start buttom BTW Then i marked the plexi for cutting Ohhh, the button after polsing it *love* Then I cutted the plexi. Almost straight! Then i cutted the rest, used a beltsander, p180, p240 and p1200 sandingpaper. Any comments? Discussion tread
Update 03.03 Painted the door with some primer. The i started sandin the MOBO-plate Then i started drawing and drilling the fanhole. The i drilled and sanded the fanhole. Then i started the make the old front dissapear After cutting and sanding Looks okey? ony issing the hole for the Power button and the optical drive. The finish before i the clearcoat The bottom og the case, you cant see the nice finish on the picture xD And the sidedoor I had too sand it to get rid of some ugly "dots" and I did'nt clean it enough. The toppwindow Any comments? Discussion tread
Update 04.03 Drilled holes and screwed in the bolt for the front Looks okey? Then i turned it around and screwed the bolts in. Power drill! :twisted: Some plexi dust Then i sanded the hole with this bit on the dremel Looks lik eit was i bit could in the basement today Bigger Picture A little overall from today. Any Comments? Discussion tread
Update 16.03 Damn, the plexi are too big for the window Think I'll need to cut it again. I ran out of paint, so the finsh are lousy. Think I'll sand it down and paint it again. Same problem, too little paint! Then I'l have to sand the inside and outside, and then i "pop" the pices together Please, feel free to comment. This is the 8th update, and I got no comments. Discussion tread
Haha, you have taken the wrong link in your last update at least, to the discuss thread, we ends up in the Black Pearl Discuss But very nice work, i haven't posted here because i'd followed it @diskusjon, you're doing excelent work there to I love the Red UV Plexi just to much, cant wait to use it in my later Mod=) But the sleeves, have you tried it in UV? Some say it will be more like orangeyellow? KUTGW! Øyvind
Hehe, I fixed the link problem Haha, discuss the Black Pearl then Thanks, it's not so easy too almost finish a mod in only a week Ohh, oh yeah the Uv red Plexi are awsome! looks ewen better in real life Well, I might have to test the sleeves under some Uv light. Thanks again
I like your idea. But I think you are going to have a hard time filling the holes at the bottom of the window. Why not cut the right off?
Thanks. Well, I'll try my best. But if i cut it of I think the window will look too big. So I'll might have to stich to bondo then
Nice job buddy! One concern about it though. Is it still fairly strong and structurally sound with all that metal cut out? I guess the plexi helps, but that may not be enough. My way to test if a case is strong enough is by sitting on it. If it bends or I can feel it being strained by the weight I know its not a very sturdy case. These are usually the paper thin ones, like the one Im using for Project PCB, which was a mistake. Oh well, live and learn. Keep up the good work though, Chris.
Update 22.03 I cuted the plexi wrong now it's to small for the window Think I need to buy a new plexi plate! The combination with white and red Lovely UV light: I also drawed the HDD-"cases" in SketchUp: Without HDD's With HDD's, BTW it's 1cm between the disk's. Might have to change it too 2cm. How I'm going to lift the cases off the ground^^ Any Comments? Discussion tread
Thanks, WTF? how could I have missed this comment? :S Well the front are steady! I have to test it a little more, but It not so thin. But I have to "pop" the case togetter first then ^^ Thanks for the tip, but the plexi should replace the old metal.
Hey, looks like a nice project so far. Where did you get the red plexi glass? And what do you say when you want a company to sponsor your mod? I tried to get a few companies to sponsor my 1970s-PC (link in sig.), but they all said no. Looks like every other Norwegian modder gets sponsors, though...
