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Cheers KidMod, I still haven't brushed the pieces, I kinda did them a little bit half arsed by rushing them a little so the edges need a tiny bit sanding off as they become a little thicker than they should on the edges so I straightened them back out & I'll get them completed tomorrow to a standard I'd be happy with, can't be doing them to a lesser standard .

Another problem with them is they aren't exactly cheap & exposure to the sun while they are on I read can really shorten the life of them, feels like I was jogging & suddenly got stuck in quick sand progress wise & definitely not the best time for me to be idle, that riot thing played on my mind a bit making me angry etc so need to keep busy to take my mind off some things, held up by a bad communicating mod supply shop, they gave me tracking codes but I really think they haven't actually posted the packages must be using pre-paid packets & the longer thay are taking to reply to me the more irritable I've been getting so dunno what to do with myself .

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Woo hoo lights just came & the molex pins, can't believe I was held up by molex pins for just over a week .

Also got email with apology & explanation of how there local sorting office has been a bit iffy lately which I can believe.

 

This stuff might work: http://ledsignlighting.co.uk/led-sheet.htm

They do LED neon wire too, which I didn't even know existed until now.

 

I really like the look of the neon wire looks like that could have made a good option for this but I have the strips now thanks for pointing them out though Graham, added to favorites .

Been ages or so it seems since I done anything & got the needed bits to continue now hopefully to the end of this project.

So continuing with working on the fan holder lighting this is with a UV LED strip inside the acrylic with about 8 sheets of laminating sheet in front of the strip, the strip needs it's waterproof cover removing so they take up less space & the holders will need some of the center of the bars filing down a little so here is a rough idea of what it will look like & the outer alternating tint pieces will be white LED from the fans .



I intend to get stuck back into this properly tomorrow & make up for that long wait on the order felt like a very long time to me .

 

Yum, anyway, I was at manchester airport about an hour and a half ago, I should have stopped by your house to pick up the frames! Nice lighting!

 

Wasn't ready anyway I really slacked off the past week as well as waiting for some bits so I could continue.

I finally got the modding feeling back, better late than never & actually grabbed my nice camera & tripod so I could get this back to being a log rather than what it was turning into as a show & tell .

So the fan holders & this different way of lighting them simply required the stick bars to be thinner there was no other way & thought I might get away with just filing a little bit out of the bars but nope lol I need them to be 5mm thinner so the 24 sheets of laminating material which comes in at 2mm needed & the 3mm LED strips, I only placed 3 tiny dots of the acrylic adhesive on to hold them together this time but even that really welds them together but a nice razor & hammer can carefully separate them, was a bit of a gamble but it was worth it to get these spot on.






Cut & peeled all the water proof material off the 3 LED strips.






Filed the corners down on the top of the fans.






A clear demonstration of how these stick pieces will be lit up, sticks, diffusion, LED strip.


24 layers of laminating sheet.




Creates this .


Measuring & works out at a needed slimming of 5mm so now I need to make all the 12mm stick bars become 7mm.








Lapped the lot so they are perfectly flat & even & I'll continue getting these to precise size tomorrow .





KidMod I got the fan pieces sanded edges which needed doing, brushed & lacquered so they will be ready for packing tomorrow .

 

Wonderful job Wayne, I can't thank you enough! I'll be back to work very soon and we're working on a couple of concepts at the moment, I'm confident that they're going into a very worthwhile project! As for your fan holders, I don't like them as much when they're lit up , IMO, they look a lot better in good light.
MOTY

 

Magnificent! Looks really cool how they're lapped very evenly.

 

Wicked, Wicked, this mod is massive

 

I'm not worried, they should look sweet on your mod .
Daylight without a fan installed made the fan holders look too good as soon as you put a fan in them they don't catch light properly but I've been working my ass off to make it work right my dad said I should just paint them black I said NEVER it took me all night to use the disc sander to get the stick pieces from 12mm to 7mm so I can fit the diffusion paper & led strip in & then lap them all working through to 2000 grit & then polish I didn't wet sand because of what happened last time , the fan holders are ready for sticking back together again, the uv light really makes that orange bar pop out & it should make for a pretty crazy contrast to the white led fans.
I'm really feeling on a mission to complete it ASAP now been like I've been revving up for over a week & just been let loose with a mountain of energy & dare I say it maybe even enough to get virtually everything done in a few days or less I'll try to get the copper pieces packaged up ASAP & when they are ready I'll PM you .

Cheers Nutman I should have an update ready in a bit, modded the night away .

Aiiight cheers p0Pe .

Soooo, update in a bit .

 

Could you perhaps take a photo of your eyes right now? I bet there are HUGE black sacks hanging under them at this very moment.

 

*Wayne when stoned on energy drinks, he fell asleep on the sanding belt, when it was on.

 

I'm fresh as a daisy actually probably a load of acrylic dust all over me though with antiqued hair feels real good to be modding again after that depressing pause for a week .

Plenty of focus in these eyes & not wasted looking neither but yeah I do feel a tiny bit groggy now .

Energy drinks make me cranky so never have them, I'm wired enough with simple coffee & pasta or jam or honey on toast or a pile of chillies with cheese on toast .

 

Everything antiqued after grinding down the 12mm sticks to 7.3mm.


And the fun begins oh yeah, this is them after the disc sander.




After 160 grit going 1 way, length ways so they will polish up better.


240


600


Sure wouldn't be able to do all these hours & be able to slightly smile without my trusty mp3 jukebox .


1200






2000


Polishing.


Result .


After cleaning them all up I started sticking them back together.






Copper ? clips, that's right not P clips but ? clips lol .


Anyway once the revised fan holders have cured that's the last time consuming bit, then it's just the optical tray & eject button & a tiny bit of wire work for a molex cable & the power switch, then the final touch install the lighting & get the copper ? clips installed & then route all the wires tidy, then I think it's done & time for the final photo shoot can't wait so I'll get it completed ASAP .

 

The fan holders are a work of art now!

 

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Cheers Nutman still it's a shame the fan hole pieces aren't seamless like the stick bars but I'll be happy with how it is now .

Not long after taking the eyes picture I passed out at the computer & woke up much later with a natural hangover .

 

The fan mounts are looking good. At first I thought they wouldn't fit in properly with the rest of the project but now I think they will suit just fine .

 

Cheers Jase , I did want to use white light but uv is what makes the orange stick pop & they are close ups of them so looking at the whole case they will be a small detail plus if I decide to try out aother idea I have of using the opal frost acrylic with 1 led in the bottom maybe I could have it lit white thanks to the 5mm extra space on both sides .

 

Those are some shiiinyyy acrylic fan holders Quality work, keep it up

 

Thanks mate right now I'm making a list of all the things needed to be done to make it more straight forward .