Nothing much for now even after an hour and half of work today, except striping it bare and some shots of the case (because I have a dilemma halfway). It's not gonna be a top of the notch project or all cos this is my first time working with steel after gradually moving from wood to acrylic. A look at the crap case.







If you're wondering what's American Apathy, its one of my fav band's new album (not really, since last year). They're called Dope. The tracks on the album has been played and replayed for like a million times, almost everyday. Some images of what you'll see on the case.




This post has been edited by Acey: Nov 17 2006, 11:23 PM

Today I woke up a tad earlier (9.30am) to strip the rivets. I found the case to be really small and doesnt give much space for work. Without the ability to use my jigsaw, this means there wont be much for today as I wont be able to cut anything and still deciding whether to unbolt all the rivets or to leave it (replacing those I un-rivetted with screws n nuts of course which looks nicer after I tried).





See the small space? It can only fit an 80mm fan at the back the most. Wanna find 10cm also susah. The green socket thing, I've removed it. I found that its just double-screwed to a traditional PCI slot. Obviously this case sux, unfortunately the china men who made it, think its cool. I had to LOL cos after using it for months i just noticed the audacity of the makers to put this:



Worse, the screws and rivets almost kill a few brain cells. After I've drilled thru the center of the rivet, there's still a big chunk of shiet left which i have to remove with a wire cutter. In the process, I accidentally bended the top panel's side a lil (just a lil, need no hammering lol). The screw sucks big time. Look at the 2nd pic, the screw's DENTED in! I have to rip it out of the steel body and then remove it with a plier. The front panel looks a crap once i strip everything off.







After removing 3 rivets, I turned the case around and was like "holy shiet there's like another 12938128301 rivets to remove". So I lay down my drill, take a smoke and starts pondering if I should continue with today's work. Dilemma. Time for consultation to either leave the top panel on and continue working with it another day, or continue un-rivetting everything. Need consultation from our modding expert.





This will be a sloooooooooooooooooooooow mod. The bad thing bout my work is 1pm-10pm on weekdays and 12pm-12am on weekends with only 1 day off only on weekdays. Try to work on the acrylic for the next few days for the internal layover before I start cutting the top panel and spraying everything on the frame. I can only mod a little by little a day, and do spray jobs on my offday. Stay tuned for updates.

good luck on ur new case.

R you planning on using screws to replace the rivets

Shorter screws and nuts to avoid clash at the corners

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This post has been edited by Daywalker: Sep 6 2006, 09:32 PM

Some minor accidents this morning. Finally got all the top panel rivets off after changing from a capalang drill bit that fits the rivet hole to a slightly larger B&D drill bit in an attempt to behead all the rivets (it worked).



Slight sided cut when the drill was out of position halfway smoking.



Drill tembus the center of rivet yesterday and just rammed into the internal side (luckily its internal). Threw away teh capalang drill bit on the spot. Not very noticable after bending it back since its located inside.

Then I smartly go "swipe" my middle finger against the ROM holder like a credit card, while washing the case (damn dirty). The white toilet seat turned dark red for like 15 seconds non stop so decided to cut the job. Tonite will work on acrylic, tmr will go get allen key, come back n start spraying.

This post has been edited by Acey: Sep 7 2006, 04:21 PM

Aiyoooooooooooo. I oredi told u, don't use capalang drill bits n jigsaw blades. Sure lauya 1.

This post has been edited by ianho: Sep 7 2006, 05:02 PM

Haha thats why threw it away n use bigger B&D drill bit. Luckily only use the capalang one on 3 rivets and only 1 got problem.

I've bn telling dis in my posts often : 4get capalang stuffs & invest in gd tools & bits. Specially 4 those who gonna use 'em often like u

Dont kedekut� save a few bucks...later somehow still need change

wohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...... Must be careful next time

Itchy hands, but no allen key, today didnt go out Tmr oni go buy, maybe will start cutting on Sunday. Somemore yesterday's cut on my middlefinger very deep haihz.

what have you done with your middle finger?

There. I'll start cutting tmr, got my allen key n some other stuffs from Alamanda this morning.

Update 1:

Night Modding on 9/11



Came back from an interview and bought some stuffs. Was 8pm so decided to mod since i got nbtd. Initially these panels are to cover up the fugly holes in the ROM n HDD holder. Gonna spray it black.







Trying to go for Ah Lian look

Update 2

Morning mod: 9/12



Woke up at 10am today and found the sun really bright. Cant... resist... spray job... Decided to spray the whole case intact.









The mobo tray got a patch accidentally from spraying the back panel. Still need a couple of sanding rounds and 1-2 extra spraying session cos some part are not fully covered. I finished one can within 10 minutes

That's all for now.

what happen 2 ur camera? so blur? and nice view from the morning pict, where u stay?

Sun glare... freakin bright out there @ Cyber Heights Villa (Cyberjaya)

hey bro i live nearby only man....u know where is IOI resort?i live in the condo inside....anyway nice mod u got going here...like the lianli thingi....maybe we can go yamcha some time

Wads the thing u used to cover the hdd n cdrom holder?
Card board?