Handbuilt aluminium case FINNISHED!! (with pics)

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  1. crazy_cow

    crazy_cow What's a Dremel?

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    if possible, id like to see pics of the inside and how everything was layed out....thanks
     
  2. m00min

    m00min What's a Dremel?

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    so how much has t all cost u if u don't mind me asking?
     
  3. bmh.01

    bmh.01 What's a Dremel?

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  4. kong

    kong cnc-guy

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    Working on the pictures...be patient!
    As for cost, not as much as you may think! Quite a lot of it was scrap, I already a donor case for the insides, so I guess all I bought was:
    Sheet of 1.5mm aluminium - £20
    Sheet of cheapy B&Q plexi type stuff - £25
    Car window tint film - £18 (ouch!)
    Door knob feet - £10
    Electronics for all mods - £125 ish (But don't tell the missus)
    Apart from that, everyhing else was just ripped from my old case - lighting, fans, psu's, etc.
     
  5. Behemoth

    Behemoth Timelord in training

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    Looking good, I like it, alot :) And that hard drive, Samsung isn't it??
     
  6. Tim S

    Tim S OG

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    schweet case man :eeek:
     
  7. Yoda

    Yoda What's a Dremel?

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    Wow...

    I need to keep modding till I get that kind of mad skillz.

    I can obviously keep improving. Got a long way to go...:cooldude:
     
  8. djgizmo

    djgizmo 1337 pimp

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    EEEEXCELLENT! muhahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! no seriously that's one bitchin case...
    As for bmh.01 welcome to the forums. i think your siggy is just a tad bit too long... if you don't mind me saying so... we really don't need to know every tiniest little detail about your system. i doubt anyone needs you hdd's model number, and you could just shorten it by deleting some of the spaces inbetween or leaving some things out... i know several forums where your siggy max is 3 lines... yours is 18. right. exceeleent case though.
     
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  9. MrDT

    MrDT fapfap

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    Nice case Kong, kinda Buck Rogers stylee :) Anyway, I remember you posting a while back about your windowed hdd, and I remember thinking how great the rimmed activity and power lighting looked.

    Thing is, in the annotated pic, you've said that the 'real' hdd is mouted at the back. Does this mean that you've actually 'deaded' the windowed one, and just kept it in there coz it looks bloody awesome?
     
  10. kong

    kong cnc-guy

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    Damn it! Knew some clever dick would catch me out! Yeah, that drive has just started playing up, so I disabled it in the BIOS. Anyways, it was only 3.2GB (Samsung, Behemoth), so I got a 60GB around the back. Didn't plan to hide it, just ran out of space to mount it!
     
  11. psYCHopath

    psYCHopath What's a Dremel?

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    cooll one of a kind cool mod :eeek:

    forgot to ask ..what was the thickness of the plexi?
     
  12. complexprocess

    complexprocess What's a Dremel?

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    those fan speed monitors are very cool. what did you use for that?

    (you must feel so loved, with all these questions being fired your way)
     
  13. crazy_cow

    crazy_cow What's a Dremel?

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    pics pics pics....
     
  14. kong

    kong cnc-guy

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    Tomorrow, pics, I promise!
    I'm just finnishing off the front and will be ready tomorrow, so I will take box apart and get some pics of the inside at the same time! It's actually quite a big job to get decent pics of the inside of the case as it doesn't come apart too easy!

    Psycho, plexi is 5mm
    Complex, fan monitors are over on cpemma's site
     
  15. kong

    kong cnc-guy

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    Hold the front page! The case has a front! Let me know what you think of it so far!!
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    Those of you interested in more pics of the inside of the case can see them here
     
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  16. psYCHopath

    psYCHopath What's a Dremel?

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    ohh i see Death star..........bad........ i'm having one LOL

    one silly question .....erm how u made the case have two color? blue and red?



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    my ....IBM need a fan...special for it......
    kong LOVE your case :lol:
    if theres someone wants to buy it how much you will sell it?
    just asking....i dont have the $$ to buy such a great work !!!
     
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  17. kong

    kong cnc-guy

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    It is a hard disk activity light as discussed over here
     
  18. psYCHopath

    psYCHopath What's a Dremel?

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    hhehe sorry.....bit-tech forums are too huge for me to browse all..... thanks for the fast reply:cooldude:
     
  19. Slink

    Slink B7

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    Gets better each time i see this,


    Seriously nice work
     
  20. m00min

    m00min What's a Dremel?

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    looks wicked dude, does the internal main lighting come on with hdd activity?
     

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