24 august 2009

I haven't done much this WE as I didn't have the motherboard tray. I started to put back the case together (without mobo tray), and I can tell you that with the black interior, it looks gorgeous. But I'll post pix only once I get back the mobo tray to manage the suspense

I have also battled for 2 days with my PSU trying to remove the ATX pins. I tried the staple solution thought here and there, but I don't know why, I couldn't make it work. I didn't even remove one single pin using this technique. So I spent some time trying to figure another way to do it and I found a very easy and cheap way to do it. I won't post it here but I have have made a post there: http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopi...post&p=28145278
This way is like 100 times easier than the staple way (at least it is for me )

I have also flushed the radiator after battling to find distilled water (if you follow the WC thread on LYN you'll know what I am talking about).

I also started on the cable sleeving. I started by sleeving and mounting in parallel the fans that I will use for the radiator:



But I am not happy with the result. The sleeving I got is too transparent. As you can see on the picture, we can easily see the wires through.

So after two trips to Jln Pasar yesterday and today, I finally found something much better:



This is 2mm diameter cable sleeving. I found it at melectron shop (40 jalan pasar, one of the shop next to the shopping center). Luckily for me, the only color they had was white.

They also have 2.5 and 3.5mm, but these sizes feel more like plastic tube (a bit like a heatshrink, but without the shrink ). This 2mm however feels more like a cloth, is slightly extensible and it is just perfect for sleeving ATX and PCI-E cables: it fits like a glove.

So I started to sleeve the ATX cables:



As you can see I just made one ... 22 to do

Oh and one more thing, I tried to remove the blades of my fans to spray paint them like mADmAN suggested. However, when I removed the sticker there is no plug hiding any washer/o-ring holding the blade. It means I cannot remove them. I think the silverstone fans are press fitted unlike the one in the tutorials.

But not willing to give up, I decided to use masking tape to mask the frame. It takes a bit of time to do it right, but I think it should work. I have already painted the fan:



It is drying as I type, but I think the result should be okay. The fan I painted is actually my "testing" fan that I cleaned up after trying the Tamiya paint. I didn't want to use the fans that will in the case as I was not sure of the result. I will let it dry 24h and see tomorrow, but the first impression is good.

So to conclude, I'm quite happy as of now. Sunday I didn't have a cable sleeving which was pleasing me and also failed on the tamiya painting of the fans. My mood was quite down are these are the two main elements supposed to bring some contrast in the case with their white color. Without it, I felt like it would just look like a regular case ...

With these two problems solved now, I'm fully motivated to finish this project. The only small let down today was that I called the shop and my mobo tray will only be ready by tomorrow noon, but it is not a big issue as I am busy with the cable sleeving tonight.

Still, I am impatient to get back the mobo tray so I can start on the WC setup

bro how much does d sleeve cost ?
d 2mm wan ?
care to PM me .
been looking for super thick one cause my single sleeving also was like yours
its very transparent .

It is very cheap. The price when buying 1m is RM 1.60 I think. But since I bought 35m, I got it for RM 1.00 / m

Wow Martin, this is neat! I can't wait to see more stuffs coming from you.

DAMN !
which shop isit ?
is it very thick ?
please update fast with a few results plz .
is it very flexible ?
when bend can see through or not ?

melectron, 40 jalan pasar: one of the shop next to the shopping center

No, it isn't thick. Just enough so you can't see through even when bended. And it is fairly flexible. I'll take a pic later once I have done the ATX plug.

badass custom WC set ....argghh!! when can i get those thing ....

btw nice mod bro...still look forward for an update ..

yeah u better do !
we poor ppl been looking for cheap sleeving comparable to murdermod wan >.<"
fast2 do ur 24pin and get back to us !
wanna see d result when d 24pin atx bended and straight .
wanna see if those wires visible or not ^^,

I'm using the cheap sleevings but since I coloured the wires black, I can't see it even after it's bent.

25 august 2009

I have finally finished the 24 pin ATX. I was a bit struggling at the beginning. I tought it would be a good idea to make the sleeving as tight as possible, but then I realised that once I would bend the cable, the sleeving was coming of the heatshrink because there was no room for movement ...

Anyway here it is:



I have started with the 8 pin ATX and now that I have the right technique, it is quite fast. After that I also want to do 2 PCi-E cables. I am also thinking to do the SATA, but I may keep it for revision 2.

I also unmasked the fan I painted yesterday and it looks great:



I just need to be a bit more careful with the masking as there is one or two white spot on the frame. But this fan was just a test so it's no biggy.

Oh and I also got my mobo tray from painting.



Let me know what do you think about the TJ-07 with back interior

Personally, I dig it

y are the rear beams still silver?

should get that done too to make it more uniform. right now it looks like an oddity thats out of place.

its darn good !
will go jalan pasar get d sleeving .
btw u shud spray paint d beam bro .
its odd to have it like dat .
different color suddenly .
heh

I'm still undecided for the beam. I didn't paint them because they take a lot of beating when opening/closing the panels and I am worry that the paint will rapidly be scratched and don't look nice. Besides, once the case is close you don't really see the beams anymore. 90% of the beam is covered by the side and back panels.

This picture was taken before I painted the back panels, but you can see what I mean:



So I think I leave it like that for now and see later if I want to paint or not.

This post has been edited by r4st4m4n: Aug 25 2009, 09:56 PM

oww ok its up to you .
but i did mine and it was ok not much problem anyway , just small peel off at d screw area dat's it ^^,
will be covered wif screw anyway .

Oh you did. No scratch due to sliding in/out the side panels ? That's what was worry me the most.

sliding wont do effect on d beam wan la .
railing yes , but railing n mobo tray i use carbon sticker ^^,

Wow Martin, you're just unstoppable. Great work there Do you help people sleeve their PSU also?

Frankly, it is a PITA

Although now that I have the experience, it is much easier. I sleeved the 8 pin PSU in about 30+ min last night.

Not sure I want to do it again once I've done mine ... although for you, I'm sure we could find some kind of "trading agreement"

dude , end diz fast .
we want to see d result !

The case mod scenario on LYN has vastly improved....no doubt about that
It takes guts to attempt something at this scale
Especially when you have no prior knowledge/experience with it
That much i respect

Kudos on the great job so far
Looking forward to see your progress and overall design
There are a lot of TJ07 out there, so the benchmark is pretty high
Nevertheless, great job there r4st4m4n