Case Mod - In Progress Full Steam Spacemashine --- final pics

That back panel looks like it was chewed by dogs....


Dem rings tho.....

 

Um, its obvious the plastic hasnt been removed from it yet.

 

Thanky guys.
Yees, the Aluminium has a lot oft scratches, my Problem is, that i dont care before the finish. But that means that I have a lot oft work before finishing because I need to grind everything.... I try to improve that..

 

Continued at the front.
Using the jig saw again.



Bought some profiles which fit perfectly.





Front sheet



More profiles for the front:




Now I had to make a cover for the top fans.
wasnt easy to cut this mesh... destroyed some saw blades....



go on with the front:



some wholes for the fans:



screwed it in place




At first I couldnt decide which design I want to choose:

A:



B:



C:



D:





Finally I choosed D.

 

Nice idea for the fans!

Bit late to the party, but subbed anyways!

 

No, nailed it.

I approve of design D.

 

^^^^this.

 

Good choice going with D. It would have been a shame to cover the rings!

D tends to be a good choice most of the time. C or DD are nice as well.

 

Hehe
Thank you for posting and subbing this project

I'm also very happy with choosing "D"

Going on with the front, so I've cutted some acryl:

first side:



second:




Alu Covers:



In the dark, using Uv light.



See you soon.

 

Woof! Dat der be purty!

 

New Update!

Continued with the top. Simply cutted some acrylic stripes



To mount the motherboard I need to fix the motherboardtray.
I also had to do the mounting for the powersupply... will fit very closely...

Started with cutting an aluminium bar and drilled some threads:



mounted:








Test fit for the power supply holding:



Seems to fit well, so I cutted a whole into the backplate



Fits








I also have done some decals for the hardware:







See you soon

 

Epic

 

Hehe, thank you a lot

After a small test fit, I continued with the first side panel.
At first I need to cut a whole into the original sidepanel:



After that, I've cutted six sheets of alu and plexi



First cut out on the sidepanel



filed it down a little bit



second layer of Uv plexiglass





test fit:



Next update will show the second side panel.

 

Hmmm... Interesting! Nver seen someone modify and use a cpu cooler quite like that before! I like it.

 

Really cool work. Love it!

 

Love the custom fans, awesome looking project.

 

@siliconfanatic: I've also never seen something like these rings before, so I thought I have to do that

@ciobanulx: Thank you

@Waynio: Thanks


New Update incoming


As I sad, I had to do the second side panel,
so I started cutting some sheets again.



After filing it a little bit, it looks much better




both sidepanels will have three layers, clear plex, uv-red plexi and alu. I have to do the second panel also this way to get the same height, even if it has no window.
It was not possible to add the perforated metal plate as a fourth sheet.

I used a Dremel to cut this steel... needed a lot of cutoff wheels for doing that...





than I had to mill a rabbet.



fits pretty good





After doing that I made a cover for the interiour. I wanted to have a very clean looking inside.

 

Here comes the las Update before the final pics

At first I've done the SSD holder, i tried to keep it simple



Cutted the first sheets for the inside of the case.




Than I go on with the mounting plate for the fans. in this pic the fans are just hold by double-faced adhesive tape. I changed it later because the fans slided down and began to hit the frame.





As shown in the upper pic, the sheets for the inside are done.




Need to see how it looks with UV light:





The most stuff was done, so I started to gring the alu panels









Because I've destroyed one of the original three frames, I need to do a new one....





first side panel done:





for the lightning I milled some channels into the plexiglas:





At first I wanted to polish every angle but the light effects were much better by just grinding them up to 320K.





Last alu part which must be done





the graphics card was to wide to fit well. using normal power connectors the sidepanels wouldnt fit anymore. I'be also done some extra power connectors for the ssds.









last thing which had to be done was the powerswitch. I want to hide it so I used an capacitive one build by my one (well... used a How2 ) After testing a lot, it works very well.




Thats it.
next time final pics!

 

Holly Moth F***A goddess of all modders !!!! That puts almost all of us to shame. Great job dude

 

I approve of the tasty.