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

Edited: -Deleted-

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?

Yeah thats in Puchong right? Most of the time my offday's on weird weekdays. If ure around Cyber at night just PM me earlier.

Its acrylic (transparent plastic they use to make signboard), what you see is the paper is still not ripped off cos I don wanna scratch it before painting.

you got a freaking BIG HOUSE!!!
btw! nice mod!

If its transparent u can still see the inside wad.. so y u wanna cover it up?

Gonner spray it black on the inside so it'll give a shine, and then cover up the fugly holes on the ROM n HDD slots like i've explained yesterday.

Update 3 : 13/09

Very early today. 9pm oredi buka mata wanna cut something. First thing's first; respraying the frame cos some part are not completely covered after the first session. See my case relaxing n sunbathing with nice scenery behind kekeke.



Test sprayed on a piece of unwanted acrylic a few nights ago, to see if the steel spray will lekat to plastic. It did, and it left a semi transparent cloudy look which I liked. Starting to think of doing that to the ROM/HDD holder's covers hehe




THE SIDE PANEL.

Then comes the kan cheung part: Cos I never work with steel + jigsaw before. Somemore afraid will screw it up, but since i got another 2 hours to go b4 work, might as well stop the waiting and itchy hands. Here's the draw out, sorry the line's not too clear, i used mechanical pencil.



I accidentally cut thru some part of the workbench thou . Not really done yet, the curves at the front side is not very well done (told you its my first time), so I'll re-cut it tmr and make it straight 90 degrees corner for the front. The back, I accidentally forwarded the jigsaw a little, causing a small extended cut, really small, i swear, really small Btw, my IC doesnt have "Ian Ho xxx xxx" written on it hence the accidents lol. Here's the result after some filing. There's still quite a lot of work need to be done to get a decent looking edge around it, so that'll be on tomorrow's update.





Well, thats all for today. I'll bring in some strippers to this thread.. i mean paint stripper, tomorrow. The top panel's still virgin cos I wanna make sure the exhaust fan wont interfere with my devices. So that'll have to wait till almost every other thing is done.

p/s: Uncle, tolong delete the few "Reserved for xxxx" posts", post #3 to post #6. No usage. Sorry for trouble

This post has been edited by Acey: Sep 13 2006, 02:24 PM

no bro not puchong...just 3 minutes from alamnda...u know the big golf course before entering putrajaya? thats dd the place...neway will pm if i got time...

how u get the clody look? wont spraying it give a clean ful coat?

That's a really nice cutting you've done there acey...
Nice job...

Even if the filing is not done yet, it's still a fine job...

I guess it must the fact that the spray paint can i took is a left over from the casing spray job with very clear ling long ling long noise in its hungry belly

Thx for the compliment. But u can see from the pic a lot of irregularities. Btw, do I need to sand the edges? I thought of that while smoking in the office's toilet

Acey u work in IBM RCC Cyberjaya isn' it... ?

1/ it qould be better to sand the edges to smoothen it out....

2/ no need to tell where u thought about it lerrrrrrr

No I dont. Telebiz. Its a case mod worklog btw.

Will get to that tonight. Tmr need to present my side panel some strip show. Ooolala.

Update 4

Night time, after work got nth to do so decide to work on part of the side panel first. This will be an "extension" of the acrylic on the panel with the band's logo on it.

Logo


Cutting the guiding line


This how the solid colour will fill it


How the light will shine from behind (the O's of d, o, and p, not shown)


Morning came so cut it after working on the side panel. Used a pipe saw instead of my jigsaw. Not everything can be properly cut with a jigsaw in my hands.



Stripping the paint off the side panel. Got some paint stripper on my hand, it just gets underneath ur skin and it starts to burn. Bloody cleaning auntie must have thrown away my gloves. Dammit. The brackets on top are really giving me headaches. Tmr need to use toothbrush on it.





Didnt do much work, decided to leave the unbalanced cut on the round edge as I have another plan for my side panel. Not before its fully done.

Update 5 (night mod)

Goin to try out the epoxy to see how well it'll bond between metal and plastic. Again, another first time when it comes to epoxy (used chloroform and silicone sealant on the previous project). Took a cut out from the ROM holder, spray painted it black on one side, and leave the other side. Glued it and left it to dry.







Then I had work to do on the side panel. Applied thick layers of paint stripper to get the paint off the vents. It worked really well when I brushed it off with a hard tipped paintbrush (i dont really know what is generally called heh). Blasted it in the toilet to cleanly remove everything.



Next, to cut the mounting acrylic for the side panel. I need some space at the back to accomodate the hinge (hate it). Since its past midnight, no jigsaw for me again, a metal saw should do.





That's the end of my night expedition. Come morning in update 6, i have the side panel to work on.

Update 6(morning mod)

Opened my eyes and saw the beautiful ultra bright sun so decided its time for some work. The side panel. Some spray painting need to be done after the paint stripping. And after that I took some shots at my fully dried chasis frame.











And time to test the epoxy thingy i did last night. It bonds both surfaces really strong. Well, I guess the "2 Tonne" written on the packing is true after all heh. Then I decided to work on the cross. Cut out the vinyls cos I'm kinda lazy to spray it red. But the colour turns out shitty n not what I wanted, so I ripped out the vinyl, leaving it as the last pic shows. I need to redo the whole thing, the cutout on the vinyl is absolutely horrible, round edges turning edgy, straight lines turning curvy. Crap.







Now, looking at the side panel from far might looks nice. Until I decided to take a closer look at my first layer paint job. THERE'S A FREAKIN MOSQUITO ON MY SIDE PANEL! And it wasn't there before i sprayed, so i must be one lucky mofo to spray on a mozzie while its flying, pinned it, and drowned it onto my side panel. So sanded it with 400 grid dry and re-spray the whole panel.





There's more work to do on the side panel. I might have an additional 1 hour tonight and 2 hour tomorrow morning to work on it. Around 3-4 more layers of wet sanding and re-spraying.

hahahh lol....bro same thin g hapen to me when i was painting my side panbel ..except it was a bird ... spraying sprying then bam... i thoght the spray can blew up...hehe

bwahahahah. dat lucky ba$t4rd... it looks lyk a fossil to me already... Project American Apathy cum Project Mosquito Sympathy i gez... XD ..wheee, ya exhaust looks ghetto enuff..

dude.. really admire ur determination man... even after the screw up of ur previous project and the hiccups of this one (like the mosquitoe ) ... ur still going at it.... from me bro if it were me id probably be tearing the damn thing apart with my bare hands knowing my patience (or lack thereof)

btw, how come the front intake grill aint chopped up yet?

Hahahaha... First time I saw mosquito sticking on the side panel.. Unlucky mosquito... lol!!!

I dont intend to cut out the front fan grill... The back one, i just snip the grill off wtih a wire cutter and then file it round (not really very round).

Basically, if there's anyone here who is more impatient or more bad tempered than me, I'd think he/she should go into any world record, cos obviously, nobody can beat my hair-trigger temper.

But I just like the art, creating something diff out of something ordinary, thats why i get back on modding. After one project fail, I'll try the next and so it goes. UV-CMA is just like a test bed to me, unfortunately i picked the wrong level of difficulty to play with acrylic lol.

So to soon-to-be modders, every problem has a solution (even 911 so teruk d also got cure! )

Bad news:
- Running out of spray paint and acrylic (last can, only less than 1ft sq left).
- So far its gonna be delayed until all the pending tasks are done. Woke up like 10 mins b4 work time today, freakin tired every weekend have to work 12 hours per day dammit.
- Running out of cash as wel
- Donno how much Bondo (body filler) will cost

Good news:
- Lucky tmr offday can rush n buy from subang.
- Start bulking jersey to get some extra $$$ to feed my case

Besterestest news:
- Asking my friend to ship in a couple of stuffs from U.S., some including fighter pilot toggle switch and the original modder's mesh.

Cant wait to get my hands on them. Oh ya, I have my worklog on TBCS and those mat salleh there are quite helpful there when you ask something. They say our grass is weird

This post has been edited by Acey: Sep 17 2006, 02:09 PM

give the link to ur TBCS thread dude... wanna see wat them gwailos say

http://thebestcasescenario.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4226

Quite funny the way they talk about our grass and mosquito They're like very kira about sharp cuts on the edges, so quality comes first for them which is good. Do check out MDSC's mod in the featured worklog section, she got a very nice stock casing, very special shape.

I still havent got the chance to ask Paul Capello on "something" regarding my next mod. The next mod's gonna be a very very very tedious task to get it done.

This post has been edited by Acey: Sep 17 2006, 04:34 PM

They must come from planet mars to say that our grass is weird and mosquitos are huge.

Haha.. no lar, they got 4 seasons over there so the grass dont have the chance... but nice ppl lar over there, i google a couple of times on airbrush starter kit but not sure which one to get, ask a while oni the pros come n gip me description and brand along with guide sites. There's a new worklog, hexagonal shape case, looks nice too.

pimprig.com also not bad.Gwailous always do stuff to the limit
Special cases design woot

Nice Mod Acey Looking good. cant wait to see ur final results

No updates today, although offday. Need to rush to Subang (now curi masuk college's lab) to get more spray paints, thinner, and sandpaper. Robbed a lot of screws and found a pack of free dampener from my friend's pc shop . Bad news, air bubbles forming on my 3rd layer spray so tonight need to sand and spray 4th layer tmr morning. T'sall for now.

@Sherren: Still continuing ur Dragzon mod?

yea still doing,after pmr i will continue,by da way u gave me some idea's on the arcylic which u did

Some stuffs i grabbed last nite, but this morning things turns disastrous when im pissed.







Gonna throw this piece of junk away.



Darn.. cant work on anything for now... woke up to spray the LAST layer of paint, and the bloody spray can dipped a part of the paint leaving a gash... wtf.. needless to say, the can suffered some abuses for 10 minutes, and then some bloody newspapers flew on top of the half dried panel.... there goes my temper so i chuck everything in the room i kept half-dried paint jobs cos i know i cant work when im pissed. Cut another cross this morning, drilled the holes and will probably work on the logo tonight. Need to take a few days off modding first.

Flying news papers ... i get that often when i leave my half-dried case to dry... 1 strong gush of wind and there it goes sticking to ur case

Tas the bad thing today... at first the sun damn bright... when i leave the panel to dry for a while n go in eat breakfast, suddenly become cloudy and wind damn strong... knnccb the weather... if only i got B&D mouse sander... knnccb now need to use all my energy n pull my 400 grit sandpaper again... damn pissed even until now

@Acey

dont use newspaper next time, try 2 use something heavier like paper box (those box comes when u bought electrical appliances) so that it is big enough.

Update 7

OK, last night I was basically very pissed thru out the day due to my side panel, so night time its torture time. The spray can felt the local version of Roberto Carlos taking a free kick in his glorious days. Sanded my side panel with 400 grit dry, 800 dry, 1000 wet, 1500 wet, and finally 2000 wet.

Today the sun's not too strong due to the clouds early in the morning so sprayed 2 layers on it when the sun is bright and have a couple rounds of blackjack with colleagues while waiting. After that, time to work on the acrylic. Jigged the blowhole (quite but still not really round quality lol), used estimation to drill the screw holes for the cooling fan, and drilled some holes for the logo extension. Here's how it goes



Cut a new piece of cross for the logo. Told you I was gonna chuck the piece of shit away.





And then its trial time. The bad thing is the leg of the hexagon stud's not too long, so I might have to find a replacement for it as I cant screw a nut onto the other side of the acrylic.







Took my finished paint job panel in (some dents are left by the spray can (yesterday's fury) and the attack of the newspaper, but it'll be covered up on the next phase. So this is how it'll look like:





Then I went to the store room to get the cover panels for the ROM/HDD holders to check on the spray job yesterday. Bright as expected.



Thats all for today, will try to work on the carbon fibre sticker tonight and put the plexi up by tmr, after spraying the inside of the panel.

Wah you really threw the junk away?

"The piece of shit" = i was referring to the old piece of cross (logo plat) i made where the spray job n carbon fibre sticker screwed up. So threw it off, drew another cross, cut it, buff the side.

Aku tak paham sebenarnya apa yg ko cuba buat dengan cross tu, apa tujuan dia?

It's a damn cool idea man. It's purpose is sorta like a 3 dimensional fan cover. The cross with the Dope logo covers the intake fan in the middle of the acrylic window.





@ Acey, is that centre intake fan a LED fan? It'll b really cool if it is. Coz the light from the fan will glow out from behind the cross n sorta gif the cross a floating look. Man, I'm so gonna copy this idea of ures in 1 of my mods in the future. Kekekekke I pay u 1 kopi-o for copyright licence.

so nice!@!!

hope ca have time to do the same!

ala shawty next time u do bulan 1! round (PAS) oso nice ler
soli joke oni!

hahahha. Lidat oso can? After become like the Kopitiam all tokin politics pulak. Shoo shoo, go away, case mods section dont need any politics.

Yep what Ian said is correct, it acts as a cover for the intake fan cos I dont really want the fan to show. And the fan's LED fan. Kopi-o can lar, teh tarik also can hahahaha

Worklog: Project Bulan Sabit Hijau

So the cross is almost done, I'd go for the simple look instead of ultra complicated things i've thought off since i suck when it comes to working with vinyls. I left my exacto knife (the ultra sharp blade used for cutting stickers/vinyls) back in Sarawak, but hopefully can get my parent to send them over cos I'll need them.





I might rip the side carbon fibre vinyls off, and the wordings as well. Then cut out another for the back and spray it black on the back to give the floating look. You just might see a different cross by tomorrow. Lol.

Today the sun is bad, really bad. Its cloudy when I woke up at 8.30, and at 10 still not bright. So I decided not to work on any paint job today... sigh. I'm still not sure if the epoxy can really hold the side panel's plexi but hopefully it does, if it doesnt, I'll have to go for double-sided tape. Thats all for now.

Dilemma and short attention span

I cant really pay a lot of attention on this project for the mean time. Have a lot goin in my mind, and the only moment I can concentrate on AA is when I'm actually working on it. So my ideas just come out of the blue, some jig cuts, slap it on with epoxy and see what I get.

Short attention span due to the the next mod, which basically is going to be huge, hopefully on an equal scale to Paul Capello's DOOM 3 mod. I asked him 1 question (and answered by the master himself), and there's gonna be a lot more to ask.

I'll need a lot, a lot, and a freakin lot of measurements, materials, and planned work. Might take me even 6 freakin months to plan, make changes, and re-plan for the work, material, and measurements. Damn the lack of knowledge in materials. Further more I need to dig up some old CDs where the initial plan was in it. Yes, the next mod has actually been delayed for a year plus.

It'll involve 3 towers, 2 AT towers (those Pentium or 486 cases) at sides, and 1 full ATX tower in the middle. Am looking n reading around about airbrush n compressor, Bondo or putty filler, styrene sheets and carving tools. If you know which movie contains the character Vincent Price, you'll have an idea what theme I'm going for next.

Update 8 - Part I

Yayyy updates... Night modding cos I know I wont be awake until 12pm today, true enough I only slept at 5-6am. Decided to test out my "theory" of a 3D look for the cross with some lighting. I think it failed to give the look I wanted, I think, but before the whole rig is set up, I'll say I failed to get the look for now.







It could be due to the black mouse pad at the background, but I'm not really sure if 4 CCFLs will be sufficiently bright enough to give it the shaded look for the cross.

Finished the side panel, but was in a dilemma in the process of finishing it (I've never done plexi + steel panel before). Stood over the panel and asking "silicone-epoxy-tape-silicon-epoxy-tape". So not wanting to screw it up when its already at this level, I decided to go with the double sided tape. I'll experiment with the silicone glue some other time. Decided to go for a border for the cross. So here are the pixies:





Time for the chasis to come into play and test the side panel. I do worry if the plexi prevents the side panel from closing right. Oh ya, I decided to drop the Lian Li PSU to ROM holder cover thing idea. The crap case is too tight to get a piece of 2.5mm bent plexi into the slot. So this morning I cut out another plain square piece that will be finished off tomorrow.







Fn hate LYN's policy of "you posted more images than allowed". At TBCS, I just chuck as many images as I want and the post will swallow it. Maybe its time they should do something like this for LYN's case mod section.

This post has been edited by Acey: Sep 22 2006, 01:44 PM

Update 8 - Part II

Now putting the side panel up, first without the cross, second with the cross. It seems like I dont even need some bolts for the hexagon studs that's holding the cross.







Installed some of my warez into the case to test it first. Chose Susurro over other coolers as the case doesnt give much space so I dont really wanna buy a big ass heatsink and then find it making out and smooching the plexi side panel 24/7.





And finally.. yuck.. fingerprints!



T'sall for today. Will start working on the top panel tomorrow. Btw, any of you have any idea how to take off the bottom 2 screws of Cooler Master eXtreme Power 430W PS? I can take off the top 2 but cant take off the bottom 2, and I really dont wanna leave it in its ugly greenish-grey colour. Bye.

This post has been edited by Acey: Sep 22 2006, 01:43 PM

have u tried the fan thingy in the dark and WITHOUT the acrylic protective sticker? im guessing it should be able to give a better effect

Did... 3rd pic of part I

Hah... time is on my side. My morning shift A.M. just changed my shift to mid morning-night shift. I'll start work on weekdays at 6pm to 3am and then weekends from 3pm to 3am. So I'll have shit loads of time to play with the sun. Tmr is front panel day!!!!

This post has been edited by Acey: Sep 22 2006, 03:53 PM

Front panel work... minor update. Rainy afternoon so decided to take all my tools in and cant continue. The cut's bent cos I ripped off the masking tape tad too early. Well, no one's gonna see it either once the front panel's done. Then there's the rubbish plastic used for the panel, it melts really horribly during sawing. So have to knock it out with the end of my file and starts filing the melted edges clean.







The whole idea is to get another face plat on the front of it, and leave some gaps at the side for the cooling fan to do its intake. Am still thinking if I should drill some holes at the side to screw the finished plexi in. The plexi's not even done yet, I need to get the total height measurement so I'll know where to bend and cut. I wanna cover the whole panel but the ROM slot's givin me plenty of sleepless nights as well.








Fixed the coupling nut (yeah, i've found out what its called) with silicone glue. Just a test phase, if it doesn't hold strong, then epoxy it is. Drilled 6 holes on both sides, apply some glue to the leg of the nut, push it in, and a huge blob of silicone at the back. I'll get back to it tomorrow, in the office by the way. Heh.

This post has been edited by Acey: Sep 23 2006, 03:28 PM

I yem waitin for me modder's mesh to comin yin from the US of A... or else I kennot fineysh my top and front panel... *too excited about getting WC kit*

Aiyahhhh went to Carrefour the spray paint brand no more black colour. .... Bought a 3M dusting cloth and "kaki" for the casing. These few days still havent got use to the working time (6pm-3am), and always wake up in the afternoon when no more sun T_T. Need to wake up earlier tmr if wanna finish the case. No more spray paint... no~~~

haha nice modding keep up the good work

the cross is held to the side panel with double sided tape ???

No... using coupling nut

Update 9

Got off work at 3am, so need to balance my sleeping time a lil. So worked on the face plat for the front panel. Sketch it out with some big holes for intake. Changed my idea from going for a flat panel to something more conventional, and no bending as well.







Used a saw to cut out the whole piece, and then it's already 5am so I just gotta wait a lil while to start my jig. Mwahahahaha the attack of the bladeless saw killer:



Hahhhh! Morning! The sun's freakin bright and hot just like how I wannit. After filing the bloody sides its time to cut. If you look at the pic below, notice the red circle. I'll tell a short story for primary school story telling competition.



First cut, the ROM space, so-so done. Filed. Second cut, first intake space, perfect. Filed. Third cut, Off/On button gap, so-so done cos the space is as tight as a virgin. Fourth cut, lower intake space, so-so done as I need to becareful not to crack the tiny space between the intake space and Off/On button gap. Last cut. KNN. When I was turning the jig, it went out of control. Kena possess by Pontianak Haram Sundal Pagi Cyberjaya bahhhh. The thing went "weeeeeeeuuuuukkkkkk", did some Initial D like drift, and I ended up with a bigger hole. Then my neighbours must think I'm crazy. For I talk to a jigsaw. "Why do you have to pull that shit on me on the last cut, dammit?".

After that collect my already-dried default front panel. Sucks but its gonna get all covered up with shiny black plexi when I'm thru with it.





So then I did some 1+1 = 2 thing.



That's all. I was dying for a sleep. And I only slept for 5 hours. There's still another 70% to do for the front panel. Yep, what u saw's only 30%. Sorta. Umm.. maybe. I think so.

This post has been edited by Acey: Sep 28 2006, 07:56 PM

i often faced with WTF ! paint crack !!! sprayed too thick !!! drop the whole thing on the floor, LED burned !!

it's pretty normal....just stay cool and forget the WTF moment.....seriously, getting angry is not worth it

Yeah, you really cant work when you're pissed. So normally when i have one of those PMS mood swing during modding, I just place it in the storeroom and watch some DVDs.

Chill and get the work done
Looking forward for the final result
Getting pissed will give more 'semangat' in modding

It's cool man. Don't we all learn from our mistakes? keep up the good work

FYI, there will be a couple of modding and non-modding updates.

1. Will get tattooed on Monday so I wont be doin any mods while in pain for like a week to 10 days.

2. The front panel is going to be thrown away, and replaced with my initial plan of bending them, with much better cuts of course (Thanks to TBCS forummer a.Bird's advice). So yeah, Im gonna delete the pix of the acrylic from this worklog for now.

3. There are shit loads of great mods on TBCS, go read them up.

UUUU...
Scary...

Hehehe...

Cool Job there...cant wait for the updates

Ure tattoo artist use knife to chop u up kar?
1 week to 10 days????!!!!!

Sry to be asking a very noob question again, but whats the wire in that casing. Does it belong to the PSU of the casing itself.

those r front panel connector wire

for those power button, led, usb...

So those wires needs to be connected to the mobo and psu right?

Offcourse...

But need one explanation there, it's to be connected to the motherboard pin header, not to the PSU...

Ok guys, thx alot for the info. Next time i won't be taking out those wires again. xD

That's one of the most important wire in the casing..

I get confused all the time la, the stupid psu so many wires.. And also the hdd the thick thick wires thing. I always get confused. Is there any guides that teaches you about PSU/Mobo/HDD/ wiring? I checked the hardware section and i don't think it had any.

This post has been edited by CyberTroop: Oct 4 2006, 12:34 PM

AFAIK
IF the io setting depends on the mobo..
so refer to the mobo manual
if not, maybe got short...
happend twice to me.. lucky only the reset switch hangus..

Ahhh back from suspension. But tattoo still healing so no updates.