Thought of that, but it'll be a nasty mess. As for sand blasting, I'm not particularly keen on outsourcing any "work". Prefer to do it myself. Except for the powder coating. haha.

I wish I had access to one.

Will need to persevere and be patient I guess. haha. Or maybe I'll just get a new mask, a box of nitrile gloves and use acetone/mek. lol

HAHA. yeah, will need LEDs later on.

Either white or blue, still debating ccfl or leds.

Thanks for the offer bro. Will revert to you if I need.

Decided to stop doing the radiators for a bit as it's very discouraging.

So spent Sunday evening punching two drain ports, and all the rivets holding my case together.

Found out that I need to use the 5.25" bay unless I want to severely mod out the front panel covers. So I guess I'll keep the bay.

Since I've decided to use a different pump, the window that I cut at the beginning of the project has to be reworked. Now I'm stumped, I have no idea what window design to use, especially since I will need to do a full window. So complicating.

Items left to do before powder coating:

Cut motherboard tray lip + management holes
Cut side panel window
Cut 120mm square plate for pump mount

Finish cut edges on case.

Well, at least that's the list that I can think of for now.

Has anyone ever electroless nickel plated their stuff before? I have a few items I wanna plate.

More progress today!

Cut off the lip on the motherboard tray and made some cable management holes. No photos yet coz I need to straighten the cuts out and file it all down.

Cut the 120mm plate, need to drill some holes tomorrow.

Also, went out and got myself a new reservoir, so tonight I'll be playing with:



Need to figure out a way to join them together and at the same time fit into my case. Wish I had more fittings to play with.

Still missing alot of fittings. Need to go buy more.

Yeah, they're my past mistakes. lol. But I'll be using mainly black fittings for my build.

Really? I thought the Berry Blue was out with the rest.

I think their site is incomplete, catching up to what actually is on retail. haha.

Some photos today!

Finished up the motherboard tray edges so they're somewhat rather straight now.

CPU backplate cut out, with a hole for the 8-pin cable and whatever else I may need to pass through.



Cut outs for the base of the motherboard where fan headers and usb headers are. Not sure what else I'll pass through there, and no harm making them wide so.



120mm aluminium cut out for mounting a pump.



Got rid of the lip on the motherboard tray that would make cable management a bit of a challenge (the straight edge was where the lip used to be).



Everything was cut with a dremel! At the end of all the cutting,



On the far left is the original size, and the other 5 discs are what I used. I don't think I can use the last 2 on the right anymore.

Made a few more modifications to the motherboard tray so I can hide three 2.5" drives behind it.

Also decided to make a full sized window for my case. So now the window is pretty much as big as the side panel would allow it.

Will probably get some custom acrylic done for the panel.

Thanks to infernoaswen, now I know pretty much exactly which fittings I will need to get my pump to mate properly with my new reservoir. Had an issue with the measurements and had insufficient fittings to test fit. . All's good now though. Thanks mate.

Does anyone know how to get rid of stains from white delrin? irienaoki, shuhong90, kizwan, nohal?

This post has been edited by pristine: Jun 8 2013, 04:53 PM

Thanks man. Still got a bit more to go before I can actually put everything together. Let me know if you're buying more bitspower stuff. Might tumpang.

Just purchase a RM480 piece for my build. Probably the single most expensive item in the entire build.






This post has been edited by pristine: Jun 11 2013, 10:45 PM

gonna slow down again since I took up a job as an event organiser for a month. only have my weekends to mod out my case.

in the mean time, I will continue purchasing and collecting more items for my build.

recently bought some new case feet and got two units of Scythe's Gentle Typhoons for my 240 radiator.

This just in today.

Eh, your block also ok. Limted edition some more. And now the company already stop production and closed down, so yeah. REALLY REALLY LIMTED EDITION.

I'm thinking of reducing the amount of bends because of the space I have left after everything goes in, but at the same time I like bends. It's a tough decision.

I don't think I've posted this yet, but here's another item from a recent purchase. Or at least a dismantled version of it.

nope.

Nope. I'll reveal what it is when I finish leak testing it.