Hi guys!! I'm Francesco,a moderator of an Italian Modding Community and this is my first work-log here at bit-tech. First of all a special thanks to the sponsor that believed in this project: Enermax Italy and Plexishop.it (an italian company specialized in making and working with plexiglass) At the moment i' m looking for other sponsor
I realized some sketch with illustrator even if differents solutions goes around in my mind, both for the front and top side of the case
After this short overview of the project I want to show you the package arrived from Enermax Some fans..... Some Fan There are six silver apollish and two white cluster Two models in details Very nice but...have a look starting from the Apollish Turning on the switch you can see a nice light effect on the blades, thanks to 15 smd white leds. The fan is provided with standard sensor for termal and rpm control. Frankly speaking the Aplossih are my favourites, and they'll make a good impression once fixed on the radiator Fans Cluster, Unlike the Appolish, have standard leds on each corner... but enough to light up the whole surface The detail of the Enermax logo engraved on the alluminium frame The PSu, Enermax Revolution 85+ The keyboard, an Enermax Acrylux low profile Last but not least they gave me also a jacket. That's all... Ok, I'm ready to start
Let's start from the making of the chassis! I bought four angular alluminium brackets with this spec: 1mm wide 2 mm large 1 meter long with a particular chromium finish I'll cut each of them at half size in order to obtain eight brackets I marked each brackets with adhesive tape at the cut point Here they are... eights brackets 50 cm long I used liquid steel to temporary fix the brackets, but dont' worry in the next step you'll see some rivets ;-) This is the first frame where the side panel will take place Pliers removed.... As i told you before, just to strengthen the chassis ,I used some rivets....but mounted with the "head" inside the frame, simply because I want the inside of the case as "clear" as posssible . On the other side the rivets "spikes" will be hided under the plexi cover. Both the upper and lower brackets will be at sight Two standard angular plate helped me to join the frames That's all, see you soon and stay tuned!
im thinking it will be because hes at work, some peoples workplaces block the images on here.... i can see them. nice start btw..
Thanks a lot Steam In the next photo you can see the chassis completed! The rivets' "spikes" are outside.... as I told before, will be hidden The lower and upper brackets are very reflective and quite a sight so I decided to leave them uncovered Rivets inside the case. Even the head will be covered by mirrored plexiglass The bulkhead must fit togheter with the lower profile so I made a 1 mm stair in the corner This scales is it between the two angle irons that will serve to me in order to create the unevenness from 1 milimeter in order to make to join to thread the bulkheads and to leave the chromium plateed profile me to par of the same one Top view of chassis. For you info.... 50 cm Height, 22 cm wide and 50 deep
Let's take a smoked plexy plate I removed the cover to check transparency level ....and cheked if measures were ok by fixing it to rear side of the case It's time to came out some exagonal M3 bolts and the thread cutter Before threading I've doen some drills on the chassis' sides Plate screwed and cover removed !! It looks nice More plexi layers will be screwed with the bolts running out from the chassis Have a look at the internal details. The plate fit togheter perfectly with the profile The mobo-tray is reflective too but the cover is already attached to avoid from scratches Mobo-tray placed in diagonal A rear view of the mainboard. Here will take place the PSU, pump and hard disks Rear view of smoked plexi Frontal plate spec: 50x 22 CM 7 drills on each side Top view of mirrored plate This a picture of the mirror plate, taken trough the smoked one Maybe you can understand better from this view Now it' s clear, isn't it? At the end a nice shot of the whole chassis with front and rear plate screwed
wow thats reflective, should make the inside of the case look bigger! but also will double up any clutter, but I'm sure you will have perfect cable management!
Thanks Maximus, onestly all the cables will be hidden under the mainboard plate and only few cm will be uncovered but sleeved.
wow, you normally hear that 'google is your friend' but I must say, google translate is not your friend. There are so many bad translations I don't bother with your comments anymore, only look at the pics. GJ so far, will be interested to see how you envision the mirror effects!
