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Well guess what guys!
Image Shack has stopped being a prick so here are the pics.
This is the cooler with the design glued to it:
Sadly this is only a teaser because my camera's battery is dead. I will give it a quick charge and take a pic of where I am up to.
looks good, cant wait to see it cut out
hurry up and charge you silly camerA
Charge Camera Gharge
It's getting there. I am taking the pics now.
i think it might take awhile...after all its not like he just has another battery pack, right?
lol i have 2 battery packs for mine and like 10 gig of sd cards.....
and thats why mine takes AA batteries, i never run out
Mine dose take AA's but Duracels wont power it up, they need to be the special Sony batteries. Uploading now.
Ok just had enough charge to take the pics and transfer lol.
Here is a pic of where I am up to at the moment.
I have cut out all the letters and the spot of the green plexi inlay:
Basically I used the Dremel with cutting disks to cut out as much as I could of the letters. I then used files to make the edges smooth and take off the remaining metal. So far I have completed the 'A' and most of the 'X' and 'L'.
Here are the files I am using, way back from my Warhammer days lol. They a re so small and fine that I can get into all the gaps, plus leave a mirror finish
Pic:
Well that's all at the moment guys. I had Exams the past week and haven't been able to get much work done. Maybe during the week. Until Then...
Happy Modding.
cant wait to see the finished letters
Yeah I hope they look good lol. Otherwise I destroyed a $40AUD RAM cooler.
yea and that would Suck
Yep sure would. I need the cooler though, those 4 RAM sticks get hot sitting next to each other.
nice cant wait till its done
would look alot cooler without paper but i can wait ihope
yea i hope i can wait to, this thread gives me so many ideas for my own lexa, but i just dont have the skillz tb4o has
Yeah the paper is only protecting the surface while I work on it. I don't want to re buff it lol.
It's not really skill mate, just a lot of time and practice lol.
Well guys not an update but an announcement.
As of Monday 14th July I am going away for 2 weeks (returning on the 21st July). There fore no modding and no time on the forum :(. Where I am going you ask well I am being forced to go to World Youth Day in Sydney Australia. If you don't know what it is Google it cos I don't really know what it means myself lol.
Also
On the 17th of July 2008 is LEXA's 1 year anniversary. Yes it has taken a long time but I have poured a ton of effort into this mod. I hope you guys throw her a party in my absence.
TB4O signing off.
Until then...
Happy Modding.
;( [/cry]so sad we will party hard mate... i will at least come back safe and well [\cry]
Lol thanks mate.
HaaHaaa. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by The boy 4rm oz
Yeah yeah laugh it up Eclecticos lol.
Hey guys. Just checking in on ya all. Don't forget to throw LEXA a bday party on the 17th.
Cya all on the 21st.
waaa, very nice:up:
i partyied lol
Thanks mate.
Yes I am back. Time to mod!!!
*waiting impatiently...* :D
Thanks DT, may get some work done through the week.
Hmmm, now all I need to do is place that order lol.
get to it lol i was gunna say that dt put i cant spell lol
Well guess what guys. The moment you have all been waiting for lol. AN UPDATE!!!
Yes yes it's update time however a small update at that.
Well I managed to tear myself away from homework long enough to realize I had a problem. My awesome plexi clad drive bay tower was sitting there collecting dust. Something had to be done. So I did what any normal person would do, I put it to use lol:
While I was installing the optical drives and the HDD I thought it would be the perfect time to install the UV CCFL that would be under the bay reservoir...so I did:
Hmm the light of the front blue fan along with the UV CCFL wasn't quite bright enough for me:
Sorry for the bad pic.
Of course I didn't expect this single UV CCFL to light all the plexi. The other blue fans and CCFL's will light up the rest of the bay covers and plexi in the case. This CCFL was only to light up the reservoir and surrounding plexi pieces.
The solution, get another UV CCFL and mount it above the reservoir. Luckily I had one attached to the support bar of the case so of it goes:
I will be getting a 20cm UV CCFL to replace the 10cm one which is going in the drive bay. This will also mean more light throughout the case.
The second CCFL installed above the reservoir:
Much brighter this time:
Here is where the inverter is mounted along with the neatly hidden CCFL cables:
One thing I noticed is that the inverter gets very hot. I am going to have to cut a hole in the motherboard tray as it covers the whole non windowed side of the case. This will give the inverter some degree of ventilation and make it easy to remove in case of it catching on fire (NNNNNOOOOOOO) or burning out. I may also cut a hole in the side panel itself to allow fresh air to reach the inverter, I think it's the safest way.
Well that might be the last update for some time from me. I have just a little over 10 weeks left of school until end of year final exams. My attention is 100% (well maybe 98%) on my school work and there is no time to mod on the weekend due to all the homework I am getting. I really want to get that RAM cooler done. Oh well, it will have to wait. Until then...
Happy Modding.
im certanly looking foreward to seeing it:Dthe hdd/dvd rack looks awsome! espeacially with UV lightning on.
+rep
Thanks for the comment pOPe and thanks for the +rep.
I am hoping to maybe work on the RAM cooler during the week. I want to at least get all the letters filed down to size. It just takes ssooooooo long with my tiny hand files. I need to have a look at my Dremel bit box lol.
Green plexi + UV can never go wrong. +Rep. Great color theme mate.
that looks great, love the lighting sceme, +rep
Thanks for the comments and +rep guys. I appreciate it.
i love it....
always have and always will
Thanks mate.
Looks like I have another update for you all.
Today I had a day off school to study so I studied for a bit then got modding lol.
I finally got around to painting the bottom panel of the case:
I had been putting this off because I was going to mount some LED modules on the underside of the panel to light up the case feet but due to lack of room I scrapped this idea.
I also added some 'U' channel molding to the edges of cut I made for the radiator:
And some grommets to the inlet and outlet pass through holes:
A shot of how it looks so far:
Time to install the radiator and fans.
I did run into a problem however. Part of the grommets sat under the fan, easily fixed though, I just cut part of them off.
All fixed:
Radiator and fans installed:
One thing I noticed about that 'U' channel molding is that it acts like those fan silencers. My fans are actually sitting on the 'U' channel so that will help absorb the vibrations from the fans. It is also working for the radiator. I guess I can cross those UV green fan silencers and silicon washers off my list now lol.
Next I re-installed the custom case feet:
Sadly these feet will have to come off again for some customization before everything goes together. 2 of the plexi spacers on the feet are covering rivet holes so I will need to remove them so I can countersink a hole on the base so the rivet will be able to fit. Not a major job but just a bit annoying lol.
And last but not least I installed the 30cm UV CCFL onto the panel:
Well that's all for this time guys. Work still continues on the RAM cooler but nothing worth posting on. Until then...
Happy Modding.
Grommets = coolness.. btw mate what brand of UV CCFL are you using. I bought Cooler Master's and they..are..absolute..crap
thats looks sweet man are you still gunna use the led things cus it sounded good when you told me about them th other day
