Really sucks about the compressor dying on you and the snapped tap.
From past experience I have found that the LED block are pretty useless unless you lightly sand the globes a bit to frost them, the strips are much better.
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Really sucks about the compressor dying on you and the snapped tap.
From past experience I have found that the LED block are pretty useless unless you lightly sand the globes a bit to frost them, the strips are much better.
I would go for the LED strips if I wanted a lot of light, but I just want subtle bits in cirtain spots, strips are too long for what I have in mind.
Heres what I've done while waiting for the new taps.
Grinded the stuck tap so it's level, relocated the holes, ordered some new taps, got them today.
Received the changing LED's, wrong version, sent back, waiting for the alternative which looks better :).
Put a bit more work into the right side panel grill, lots of filing & sanding so no more wonky lines & put some mesh behind the grill & painted it haze blue with a light mist of matisse blue :).
Removed the window & it took a whole load of elbow grease to get the white mounting tape off, painted the inside upper half haze blue on both sides, need to order 2 windows, thought I had a couple spare, thought wrong lol, so I'd expect to receive some time next week, also buffed up the inside top panel so it's better than it originally was now.
Very tempted to sand the front grills to get really nice edges like I did with the rear, but would probably require painting again so I think I might pass on that, once the windows are installed the air cube v2 is done, but I think I'll always wish I sanded the front grills, so with that in mind I think I should :) lol.
Painted the xbox, I'm especially pleased with the hdd :), done it all matisse blue & the power button is haze blue because I ran out of matisse lol, doh!.
On with the pictures of the finished sides, buffed inside top & the finished xbox, just wish I made enough space to add some meshx for the back fan, it's already a tight fit once the top piece is on so no room for it, oh well.
Now I can fully focus on getting this stack put together, so more soon :).
-applause-
that is one sweet xbox. ^__^
oooh... that blue is pretty! I approve! :up:
That is one sweet looking XBox, looks a ton better then white :D.
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Walked into a wall with the stack build though.
The taps I got seem to be the wrong pitch size thread, not only that but the guy I bought them off on ebay also only sent me 3, was supposed to be 6, so thanks to the ebayer I bought them off the stack build is fubared for the time being.
So I'm quite unhappy with how the base is turning out, all tapping related, the pieces for the 1st base are turning into swiss cheese, making me think I'd be best off making another order of aluminium to get it right, 1 bad hole was bad enough, now there is 4, if I do order more aluminium I'll make the postage worth while & order enough to do another project at a later date, I would like to do a mini ITX media case at some point, was also thinking of making a desk, I was a little short of flat bars anyway so maybe this was supposed to happen, I also wanted to add some trim bits to the stack to give it a little flair :).
So other than putting windows in the air cube, noting more to do until I get the right bits & new aluminium so it could be a couple of weeks before the next update, sigh.
Wow, was nearly 3 weeks since my last pictured update, many problems with the rrod xbox's leading me to just say the hell with it & buy a new late 2009 one (jasper) to put it in the modded case so had to mod the hdmi bottom half & the internal metal case again, I should have originally known getting a new one without previous problems is the best way to start off an xbox's life inside a well cooled case, anyway it's now a green 4 life 360 :D.
Had various tapping problems with the stack & problems marking the chunky angle bars accurately which has made me decide to use black rivets on the corner angle bars, the levels are fine, just the main corner angle bars, not all the mounting holes line up perfect but at least every levels corners does by at least 1 bolt which will enable me to rework them easily to take rivets instead.
Got all the base levels put together without nuts :).
Made another temporary jig for getting the marking done on the chunky angle bars, was a real pita to mark accurately & took quite some time before I figured out a good method, then it went quite smoothly, but still a few holes don't fully line up which is why I'm going to drill the holes with a 3.2mm drill bit & use rivet washers & black rivets.
I decided to do away with the 0.7mm aluminium sheets on top of each levels frame base & instead get some clear polycarbonate sheets & paint all the frame work so you can see through it all, should be pretty sweet, The sheets of aluminium became too messy with failed taps causing me to need more sheet aluminium which I didn't have.
Any polishing I do on this stack will be given a coat of clear so it keeps the polish.
The end of the framework is close to finished now, phew, was a bigger mission than I anticipated :).
Not been taking my camera along to the work space & instead just been pushing forward so it's straight to the form which gave me a cheesy grin :D.
More soon :banana:.
Sucks to hear about your Xbox dieing, good to hear you got a replacement though :D.
I am liking the tower structure. It's looking very good, quite sturdy.
i approve. I approve a lot:D
Thanks Jase, StormRider :up:.
Update time :banana:.
OK, painted the levels, cut the angle bars to size & smoothed off the top edges by filing & sanding & spent today polishing the angle bars, the plastic sheets for the 1st 4 levels needed a smidge filing off the ends & trimmed little corners out to make way for the rivets & then started fixing it all together, at last :D.
Still more to be done like little extra support bars, guide rails placed inside, switches, but the main effort is now done phew, was a mission & half lol :).
I'm also going to put some more effort in on the air cube by sanding the front grills so they are nice round & smooth edges.
More soon :).
