Project: NLM.

Update 16 – Plate work part 2 @ wedensdy the 28th March 2007.

Intro
I got some more work done! Here’s what I need to do on the plates.
Front - Finished
Side panel with window – Need to be sanded and painted.
Side panel with logo – Need to be sanded and painted.
Top – Need to be sanded and painted.

Back – Not started
Bottom – Not started

Now what you’re all looking for; pictures!

The funny part

I’ll use those to hold the and case together, you’ll see in the next update ;)

The plexi for the window is now cutted.

Hope it’ll look good.

And with some screws ;)

How do you think this would look with black brushed panels? Good right?

I thought that it would look good with this text on the other panel, hope i was right :)

And some more plexi, this time frosted.

I hope it’ll look sweet with light in it ;)

And then i mounted this site.

But those screws was a little to long.

Now that little problem has been fixed ;)

Cool.

And here we have all the panels until now.

I want to start on the back plate this week.

So here’s the plexi and alu, cant wait to mill and see the result ;)

Hope you’ve enjoyed. Cheers.

Update 17 – The backplate @ Friday the 29th Mach 2007.

Intro
Now the backplate is milled. It’s looking even better in real life than on the pictures, så I’m happy ;)
I’ll polish the PSU, because I think it’ll be a good contrast to the black and orange.
But I’m really tied, so I wont commentate the pictures, just let them talk ;)

The funny part

That’s it ;)

Update 18 – More plate work @ Thursday the 5th April 2007.

Intro
Here we go, another update. I’ve spend a lot of time sanding and painting :D Another update will come later to night, so stay here guys (:

The funny part

Here’s all the plates after painting.

I just love this look :)

One of the plexi plates is now glued on.

And the good side :)

Some soldering.

Now that’s good. The light ain’t that hard in the corners irl, but my camera like making the light more effective ^^

And the window got glued.

This is how the PSU look right now, just need some cabelsleeving and then it’s finnished.
The pictures aren’t that good :( but hopefully you’ll see how shiny that thing is :D


See you later to night guys!
Cheers.

Update 19 – Different stuff ;) @ Thursday the 5th April 2007.

Intro
Some more work done :D
When I have some more time for modding, I’ll mill the waterblock for the peltierlement, cause I want to see how it’ll look with the outside tubing ;)

But lets take a look.

The funny part

The first thing to do today was to drill holes.

Yep, to make the plate fit on those :)

Now that’s good.

So..

And the two parts glued together.

Now it’s only the holes that’s left.

Thos screws will hold the bars for the psu.

It does just fit perfect ;)

The next few pictures is how NLM looks right now ;) Enjoy.

Please commentate those pictures guys :D

Next thing to do was to fit the fridge into the case.

Cool.

And then I installed the LCD screen.

Not much space, but it’s good enough ;)

And a little teaser from the sleeving, I’ll show more later.


Cya!

Update 20 – Watercooling on the fridge & outside tubing @ Monday the 9th April 2007.

Intro
Woha, now my coke should be cool as hell :D I think the outside tubing looks awesome, but i let you decide ;) I don’t want to talk any more, lets go to the pictures!

Den sjove del

Here’s the block:

Well, maybe it’s not the highest performance, but it should be good enough to keep my coke cool :P

Then I mounted it.

Now, lets cut out 4 pieces with the dimensions: 15*25mm, yep they are small, and i can tell you, it was a pain to cut them out.

And then drilling holes. Lol, actually it was even harder to drill 4mm holes in the 5mm plexi ^^

Time to drill the holes for the tubing holders.

It fits just perfect!

;)

And here’s the pictures of the final result, enjoy :D

Comments and suggestions are more than welcome.

Btw, there wasn’t space enough for the counter-sinked screws. So I’m going off with those:

Cya!

Update 21 – Rounding plexi and creating the bottom plate @ Thursday the 12th April 2007.

Intro
I’ve decided to mount the radiator directly on the bottom plate. And that’s why I wanted to create it to day. I’d also got time for some plexi rounding. If it’s matching the design better now you’ll find out in the next update, where I’ll put the beats together again. ;)

Today I also ordered some glue, which should be perfect for my h2o block! It’s design to glue plastic and aluminium together, and at the same time be water resistant, handle temps up to 90C and then it’s transparent!

Next update should be ready on Sunday. And here the last 3 h2o blocks should be milled out.

But lets take a look.
The funny part

Some of the stuff I ordered.

ACRyan mesh panel – those small holes are perfect for me. I’m going to hide my motherboard behind them ;)

My 120mm orange fan.

Some c-strip – I’m going to put this in the holes I’m milling in the mesh where the h2o blocks’ going to stick up. But I’ll show you more of that later on.

All right, I needed to round my plexi. On the big piece were the button and so are mounted on I’m going off with a big rounding.

And on the small piece’s a little rounding.

This is how I planned to do it. Now I’ll get a straight edge, and the same rounding all the way around.

After some filing we got this.

First piece’s finished.

After some sanding the edge should be good enough. When I get the dust washed off you wont see the small scratch.

Then I did the small piece’s.

Voila.

I’m sad because I wont be able to see this fantastic grill when I’m finished, because It’s in the bottom. I do really like those big grooves, and I think that they match the design very well.

Some more cutting in the little old case. It’s incredible that it’s still stable.

I hope that this will give a awesome effect, with the orange glowing under the computer.

I did also need to cut a little here. The radiator was a little to big – but I’ll fix that with a cool idea I got ;)

Hope you’ve enjoyed. Cya!

Update 22 – Back in one piece @ Sunday the 15th April 2007.

Intro
Some more work done on the case ;) All those small part does just take soooo long time.

I haven’t got my screws jet, so you’ve got to look at the hex screws on this update too :D

I got NO time before my trap to London, but I’ll try to but in the PSU tomorrow so you can see how it looks :)

But lets move!!!!!!!!

The funny part

I did two waterblocks, this is how they started.

I need to do something here, the transistors are sitting way stupuid :D

And after a lot of milling this was what we got.

And the way to mount those block are a lot smarter than the block for the cpu. I’m just screwing a 3mm bolt into each of those holes, smart right? :D

And the little problem got solved.

DONE! Lets take a closer look.

Pretty sweet if you ask me ;)

And the hole family of water block :D

In-between all this I got time to paint the case.

…With the blocks mounted.

Off cause i added those to backside, we don’t want shorts right?

Then I mounted the block on the gfx.

And then something which was PISSING me off.. I needed to mill a new plate for the bottom, because that the radioator didn’t fit with the motherboard :wallbash: :duh: :duh: :wallbash:, I don’t get why I didn’t realized this earlier. Waste of money and time. (rofl look at all the scratches on the old one :D Maybe I got a little to angry)

The radiator and the fans got mounted :)

And I did also need to change the fittings on the gfx.

NOW IT FITS!!! YAYA!!!

There isn’t much space in there!

Mounting the res.