Please la bro.
we need more.
feed us more.

Yes... yes
I trying my best...


Yesterday just done the final mass mill/drill/cut on the whole project

Will later get some pictures in

but now the final stretch is right around the corner

1. Bend the Front panel + take pictures
2. SPRAY!!!SPRAYY!!!!! SPRAYYY!!!! paint
---------> my worst enemey because a) i have no proper spray pain place and b) really bad in spray painting aka impatient

3. then assembly, which itself is a chore....

the place i intend to do spraying.....



sum live cables to hang the case for spray

This is the last drilling done....


the switch added in


now on the heater to heat + bend


and later with a hair dryer used tried to add more heat to the help with the bending...no luck
in the end have to crank from 5v to 12v on the PSU to heat up the board

Bang-Bang..




The whole thing


Here is the problem plaguing my whole life...


bad bend...like bad to the bones..... all because of impatient plus unknown properties of thicker acrylics

see the bad bends and the burnt mark from the overheat of high volts



Lucky for me, the original intention has been always to spray paint the front panel
so the irregulars can be sand paper before spray painting

more pic in the next post

more pictures gallery

Side profile of the unit


the side window itself weigh 1/3 of the empty case

Straight as I want it to be, angle just enough



The reason why I want to cover up the FP with paint

those 6 magnets didnt come out as I expected, but my expectation is very high here.

inside view


the view on the other side




still 1/4 of the way to go, the home strech...

1. Smoothen the FP bend and sand down the whole thing, prep-ing for Paint
2. Remove all braces, label and prep for paint
3. decals/ tint layer for side window
4. Additional accessory:
---------> a. edge rubbers
---------> b. extension wire/cables (Front USB, Power/Reset button, etc)
---------> c. Internal lighting (red or white?)
---------> d. A new CPU cooler
---------> e. Fans (2x140mm Front, 1x140mm Bottom)
---------> f. Cable managements system
---------> g. Wheels on the bottom for movement

Some item/planned ops that is dropped
1. Disassembly of RAM heatsink and repainting
2. Intergrated Qi wireless charging on the top

This post has been edited by mcchin: Dec 19 2014, 09:14 AM

wow lot of work there. good luck and looking forward towards finished build

moar! moar!

Nice..keep up bro

Nice stuff u have there!!

Hi guys

sorry for the no show for almost two months

The whole project was intended to finished up before CNY (HAH!!!)

but CNY come too fast, and the best was to Clean up the current Open air setup ....

Then After CNY, too into holiday mood to start back anything

Chap goh meh come and gone... same, like somehow lost that feeling

Enter March, was no better, with ChingMing around the corner, taking up 3 weekends of the month

Now April, with my birthday past,
Its getting hard to find reasons for the delay

But Luckily!!
Rainy days!!!, recently been quite consistent in the evening for the weather to turn bad

and why would weather be any effect on what I do?

cause its the Point in the mod i dreaded the most,

Spray Painting................. .... ... .. .

any hooo,

rant over,
some pics in the next post
and see if i can start the rusty ol' engine this weekend

Here's how it sits,

1. Basic cut, drill, bend, file, riveting etc is all but completed
2. Assembly-wise, the Case "is" usable, forcefully but i choose not to
3. The dreaded Painting process awaits but...
4. Do I,
----> a: do a shoddy job and just paint the case just like that? or,
----> b: take apart every bracing on the case and paint it separately? or,
----> c: take apart everything, find a Powder coating and my wallet ... or,
----> d: just scrap the whole project and close this thread

what you guys think?

5. Place for me to paint is i choose to DIY painting is virtually nil, as been living in apartment


Some badly taken pics coming, all taken in the event to dismantle all braces before painting



the main back, T brace




The front mid, HDD cage brace




clearer picture




the back mid




the bottom braces, all you see is the rivets



bottom pic of the braces



bottom other side


all these pictures is showing nothing new
as I will maybe use to mark the braces with number to record the positions
as most probably the braces will not be painted over

so until the next update

some current system picture to tide you guys over
   

Oredi seeing dust on the GTX680 cooling fins..


Here is a picture that was, since before CNY 2015




Have to move quick before the onset of grease.... and throw everything down the drain

i wanna ask...where u got the switches from?

what switch?

power / reset switch =)

oth that is vandal resistant switch i bought back 2 years ago

from a lowyat forumer as well limhongwan or something

okies! thanks for the help!

slow slow slow day

weehheelllllll, what do we have here...?

Sand paper in sink????!!!


Super simple setup for "super simple" job



The best sandpaper block i can find



Sanded down the corner to a smother surface


as compared to previous





it seems i lost some of the picture of the whole case sand down....

now all unit is sanded down and readied for Painting...


Now where to buy spray primer...

After a hiatus

I AM BACK!!!!!!!!!

Lets see, what would be my excuse(s)
1. GTX 680 Lightning?
2. CG:GO at RM 15.50?
3. Workload?
4. Life crumbling around me
5. Just lazy
6. All above??

Well installed GTX680 (finally ) and just started to play a slew of games my old 9600GT cannot handled

Then CS:GO happened, and this is from Mar till now.. almost 5 month and chalked up almost 600hrs gameplay




also coupled with work load from my life-paying job
and just a sudden bout of laziness, apathy really, and my life equipment sort of strat to break down around me
(my phone DIY wireless charging is a NG, GPS unit acting up, car start to sputters, line shaft cover broken.... )

things just sort of slowed down

well I did get to go to Germany for a week, all expense paid...

https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=3682120&hl=


just recently fixed my GPS unit

and this Case mod feeling is coming back, BABEH!

before anything lets see the setup as it is now..

My Components:
Processor : Intel Core i7 2600k @ Stock
CPU Cooler : DIY Mod from Gigabyte 4 Heatpipes Cooler + Freaking Loud Delta Fan
RAM : 16GB DDR3 Corsair Vengeance Light Blue Heatspreader
GPU : MSI GTX 680 Lightning @ Stock
Display : Dell U2414h FHD LCD
PSU : Seasonic S12D 750W
Storage :
---> 2X 256GB SSD (Plextor M6S and Liteon L9s) in Raid-0, Mod BIOS for Trim Support **NEW**
---> 3X 2TB HDD (2X Samsung HD204UI, 1X WD Red )
---> 1X 320GB Seagate
---> 2X 80GB WD Black

Peripheral :
---> El-cheapo Keyboard,
---> Gigabyte G402 Mouse **NEW**,
---> REAL Carbon Fiber Mouse Mat
---> Sony In-ear headphones, very nice for CSGO (bundled with Xperia Z)
etc etc...


well enough chit chat,
you all here for the pictures, right?
a disaster waiting to happened, perhaps?



A disaster you say?
well you're in the right place!

a 5 months open air setup and the system is hocked full of dust!!!!
this is the Graphics and mobo, with fins filled with dust!


then this is above it, all HDD/SSD with the PSU
Active air will kill your system guys...



the back of the system, filled with hanging wires and co...


Any hoo, my road back to finishing this project starts...

on the next post

This post has been edited by mcchin: Oct 9 2015, 09:33 AM

Here is the start

have to take a Leave on Friday to get self motivated to start


a simple setup, with lots of cellophane tape to bind those newspaper together


closeup,


Parts to spray Base Coat


Self Etching basecoat for steel parts





Sprayed Main Body case with white colour base coat



Some plastic parts test spray



metal top is base coat, plastic parts is white colour
can you all guess what colour I am going for here?


After some time, lets start the Spray paint process!


TBC next post

This post has been edited by mcchin: Oct 9 2015, 09:32 AM

HUHU~~...

Spray 4 coats of white, and need only one mistake....
have to add more layers again to cover up the mistakes



Another 3-4 layers of paint and the defect is barely able to be covered up

night comes and 1st round of painting is finished


the main body, painted white as snow....


a few layers of paints and the colour is solid


parts solid colour



Front panel


Still some imperfection, might fill up with something for next round of spray



TBC next post

This post has been edited by mcchin: Oct 9 2015, 09:31 AM