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lichyetan
post Jun 22 2009, 10:44 PM
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Objective:
Reuse my Cooler Master Stacker STC-T01 casing which sitting in my store room in quite a while.

Scope:
Repaint the casing internals to black colour.
Cut the top panel of the casing to fit 3x120mm radiator.
Repaint the external to Gold + Black theme. ( Not yet final decision )
Mod the case to become more water cooling friendly case.

Casing:
Cooler Master Stacker STC-T01

Water Cooling Components:
D-Tek Fuzion v2 with i7 bracket
Swiftech MCR-320QP
Danger Den CPX Pro Inline pump
Bitspower 5"25 Bay Reservoir
Chrome Barbs
7/16 ID tubings

Major PC Components
Intel Core i7 920
ASUS P6T
Team Xtreeme 3x1gb DDR3 1600 CL8
ASUS 4890

The Cooler Master Stacker STC-T01 is the first Stacker series casing made by CM, its a full tower ATX/Inverted ATX/BTX casings support 2 PSU and has a huge space inside. Its one of the best casing in all time which has lot of features. The chasis's huge amount of space inside and flexibility of setup made it favourite among liquid cooled users. I've been using it for 3 years and its time for it to have a new look.

Old setups (Random pic):
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Phase 1: Repaint the motherboard tray.
Take down everything, take out the PSU cage for painting and cutting jobs.

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Sanding and preparing surfaces for spray painting. From Pics, main reason of being repaint, the Steel of the case start to rust already, rust were sanded of before repaint.
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Sorry as no pics after sanding was took.

The paint job, and the spray painting station that setup by me.

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Pictures show the final paint job and product. Quite statisfied with the work, but regret not repainting the bracket for the tray as some of the original black paint already chipped off.

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Next Phase: Cut the Top Panel to fit 3x120mm Radiator.

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nice painting there
great start biggrin.gif
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ur paint is matte or glossy ??
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should be matte...
too far different from glossy
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yeah, its matte....

still deciding on the external repaint ? metallic or glossy or matte ? hmm.gif
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post Jun 24 2009, 09:48 AM
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outside glossy la,spray till like mirror !! tongue.gif
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glossy~~~~~~ or make it carbon XD
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bro,where the psu put ?
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can tell me what grit sand paper u use to sand ur case??
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QUOTE(lun1986 @ Jun 25 2009, 12:05 AM)
bro,where the psu put ?
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bottom of the case, this casing support 2 PSU, i drill out the top cage to put radiator, bottom still can put PSU, its a full tower... u can go CM website have a look.

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can tell me what grit sand paper u use to sand ur case??
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400 to 600.... rough for internal part....

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do you apply a layer premier b4 you spray your paint?
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cant wait to c the external become gold and black.....
can it blend together nicely at stacker?
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change of plan, sent the casing to powder coat... and also paint it all black...

will post pic later... smile.gif
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QUOTE(lichyetan @ Jul 4 2009, 06:09 PM)
change of plan, sent the casing to powder coat... and also paint it all black...

will post pic later...  smile.gif
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waiting for you picture
how much do they charge you?
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QUOTE(lichyetan @ Jul 4 2009, 06:09 PM)
change of plan, sent the casing to powder coat... and also paint it all black...

will post pic later...  smile.gif
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whole casing? in and out black?
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QUOTE(LittleLinnet @ Jul 9 2009, 11:03 AM)
whole casing? in and out black?
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yup, whole casing plain black... make it like those black edition casings...
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cant wait to see how it turn out, been thinking for black for my stacker as well
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QUOTE(lichyetan @ Jul 4 2009, 06:09 PM)
change of plan, sent the casing to powder coat... and also paint it all black...

will post pic later...  smile.gif
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hmmm.....cant c the black and gold theme...i think it differ than other
anyway....will c how ur plan work out....
hope it wil be so nice since u send for shop to spray...
how much the charge?
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90% done, Pic spam...
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Left back plate cover for top existing PSU vent, and some PCI slots covers... thumbup.gif
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