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They are great things Dremels but make sure you don't make the same mistake I did, knock offs are crap, it's a genuine Dremel or it's nuthn.
A small update on my 240mm radiator. I called the retailer today but couldn't get through. I will try again tomorrow.
Ok time for a picture update. Officially all oh my schooling for this year has finished so after school I got right into modding.
I started by removing my plastic panels and dismantled my drive bays.
Here is a picture of the process.
Un-riveted:
Dismantled:
From here I removed the front intake fan housing because I needed to do a bit of work on it.
Here is the removed housing:
Due to me using a 3-pin power header on this fan I decided to drill a hole in the housing to make the routing of the cables easier.
Here is the fan (just a stock Cooler Master one my friend gave me):
And because I had some rubber grommets laying around I thought I may use one.
Pic of the housing and grommet:
Now to find the correct drill bit. This one fits perfectly on the inside of the grommet so I will use this as a base and step up the bit size if need be.
Pic of the drill bit and grommet:
Hole drilled (I needed to go a few bits larger for the correct hole size):
Grommet installed, perfect fit:
Now to have a look with the fan installed:
Fits perfectly and makes cable routing just a little bit easier.
On to the painting.
First coat of primer:
And the final coat of black with the grommet installed:
Looks pretty good if I don't say so myself.
That's it for today, with this part of the case dismantled I can finally finish the rest of my plastic mounting, tomorrow perhaps. Until then...
Happy Modding.
Well guys I am having a hell of a time trying to contact the place that sells the HW Labs radiators here in Australia. Every time I call the phone just rings out and they aren't returning my emails. I figure they may be on holidays or moving store, they may even have closed down.
Well enough of the sad stuff, on to the modding :).
I completed my disk drive cover today and I am quite proud of how it turned out, nothing went wrong haha.
Here is the piece of plastic I started with, I had already cut it to size and just had to add indents for rivets and extrusions on the case.
Here is a pic:
Same piece of plastic but with the protective plastic removed:
Pay no attention to the top left corner of the plexi, I slipped with the Dremel but it's ok, this part is covered by the top of the case anyway.
Now installed on to the window side of the drive bays:
It fits perfectly.
Now here is the support bar:
Plenty of room.
While I was doing this I also drilled a hole for the HDD thermal sensor and of course it isn't complete with out a nice rubber grommet.
Here is the hole (middle top, under the slit):
And now with the grommet installed:
Now doesn't that look much better.
Well that's all for now. I needed to keep myself occupied today, I have my driving test tomorrow and I am a bit nervous lol. Hopefully tomorrow arvo I can get the window side floppy bay cover installed. Until then...
Happy Modding.
looking good!:D
Great work, looks much better than bare metal.
Good luck with the driving test :)
Thanks mate. The test is at 8am so I gotta get up early lol. Hope I pass though.
Should be no problem if you are just as good as with modding ;)
Thanks all. I have half an hour until my test so wish me luck :).
good luck? hope ya did good sorry bout the late good luck :P like the case so far. :)
Well the good news is I passed yay lol, got 91% out of a needed 80%. I did some more work today and have taken more pics but I won't upload them until tomorrow.
