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Modding school desktop case mod

Discussion in 'Modding' started by Mattt, 3 Oct 2004.

  1. Mattt

    Mattt Minimodder

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    Ok a fair while ago they were throwing out old machines at my school and being a modder and not one to waste perfectly working machines i took them from the school befor they ended up in the skip, anyways it was beige so i thought i nice black paint job + some extra cooling was in order. and so the modding began :dremel:

    First thing i did was to mark out and cut the holes in the top, unfortunatly my fellow modder who was there at the time whos hole saws i was using had a slight accident while cutting the holes and ended up skidding the hole saw accross the top of the case and then into his shoe :wallbash: . i looked at the case and saw the large scrapes and one rather large gauge :wallbash: so befor i started painting i had to set about fixing them, ahh the joys of a cellulose based car body filler and a putty knife. so once that was all sorted i could paint.

    To get the mirror finish i first had to get rid of the old orange peel paint finish that was on there using wet and dry. I then primed and painted with some gloss black paint and to get rid of any minor inperfections i used t-cut finaly i used black car polish just to give it that ultra shine. for the plastic front and the floppy/cdrw i used a matalic finish paint that i found lying about.

    after the painting i jst mounted the fans and the grills then fixed some green cathodes to the back of the fans to give a bit of a glow to the case, i also added the switch to the front blanking plate for if i wanted the lights off.

    the whole mod cost me about £15 mainly on paint.

    so anyway heres the results -


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    so what do you think???
     
  2. retrogamer

    retrogamer What's a Dremel?

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    nice :D i like the paint job, very shiny :thumb: and free is always best imo :D nice work
     
  3. frag_daddy_2007

    frag_daddy_2007 What's a Dremel?

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    nice case, free is always good too. too bad my school always keeps the old ones for parts :grr:
     
  4. Mr T

    Mr T 4 Left Into Long 3 Right

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    Looks pretty pimp (Y) whats inside her?
     
  5. Ph33r Viper

    Ph33r Viper What's a Dremel?

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    now you have inspired me to get a few computers from my school and mod them
     
  6. Mattt

    Mattt Minimodder

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    at first nothin exciting - 350mhz duron, 192mb ram, 4mb agp gfx, 3x4gig hdd's and floppy drive.

    however i managed to aquire some extra bits by upgrading a comp for someone and taking there old stuff as payment and had a fair amount of stuff knocking about so its current spec is -

    1gzh duron, 256mb ram, geforce 2 mx, 3x7gig hdd's, cd-rw.

    which now leaves me with enouth left over bits to build a third machine. :D
     
  7. ww667

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    good clean mod ;)
    i like that.
    Just how i was always saying all best looking things are simple.
     
  8. Sc0rian

    Sc0rian Here comes the farmer

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    cool case mate:D
     
  9. Gecko

    Gecko What's a Dremel?

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    Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet.

    I'm loving it.
     
  10. alpha112

    alpha112 Modder

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    Nice. Like the green glow on the vent :thumb: .

    EDIT: just noticed this is 2 months old :duh: .
     

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