I am building one of the Invisible cases myself, and I was looking for some answers. The size of the sheets, I was thinking something like 350x350mm; and the thickness? .25 for the the smaller .125? I acctually just recieved my LCD in today, the NK204 of course, I have ordered the two plastic hinges and I believe the four, yes four, clear fans. To raise the motherboard off the bottom plastic, personal preference, I am going to cut out some blocks and place over the drill holes, glued down. Eventually I am going to get a dvd/cd-rw but for now I have an old cd-rom, same sizes. Should the powersupply by clear also, a bit harder to do with the one I have, but nothing is impossible. Anyone have any suggestions as additions to this before I begin building, as well as any specifications I might need?
Welcome to the boards. You may want to have a look at this: http://www.bit-tech.net/article/67/ It should help you out somewhat.
design as much as you can on paper. I mean that. Way too often modders get way too exicted and jump right in and end up geting lost or ruining something (half the fun sometimes though ). I do mean what I said though. With a project as big (and possibly costly) as this, its worth your extra time to learn about what you're doing and write it down. I'm trying to do just that. You see how many people you've inspired Linear? *******.
outer dimensions are 10x10x10" for the case, and 6x6x6" for the drive cage. The top and back of the cage are open.
while we are on the subject.... Linear, meant to ask you this when you debuted the invisible case.... Where did you aquire the righteous 90 degree angle brackets you used to hold the pieces together to bond them... haven't see those lying around anywhere around here but maybe I ain't looking in the right places.
They are in the tool crib in Home Depots. Search the Home Depot site for SKU 362247. The bad thing about them (and the reason I didn't pimp them up more in the article) is that they don't put a completely even pressure on your pieces. For .250" material, it's stiff enough that there's no real deflection, but the .125 stuff went all warped when I would tighten the clamps down on it.
Thanks, I found them... I will pick up a pair. Did you try sandwiching the .125 between two pieces of plyboard to add some rigidity... I used to do that at a sign shop, make a wooden sandwich with the stuff your working with barely sticking out enough to glue or whatever. Even if they aren't perfect, there still better than the 10 year old that I have now that says "can I go inside now?" 5 seconds after I get the glue on... thanks again
