That's really sweet acrylic work... I wish I was as good.
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That's really sweet acrylic work... I wish I was as good.
Thanx guys :)
to compliment the front and side, i decided to make a bit of a feature of the floor as well :)
The original idea for the pump power was to run a bent frosted plex wire cover to the rear of the case.
I recently had an idea for "channeled " look ..... so this was a good time to try it out :)
The idea is that the power wires for the pump will still be fed thru a frosted plex tubing ...but a channel is cut in the PLEX FLOOR
to allow the tube to sit lower down , more flush and give a cleaner stealthier type look.
a large hole was drilled in the metal floor @ a diagonal angle to the pump, the hole is cut larger so it would also fit the "Motherboard" light wires that will also be fed thru @ a later time .
Some "pre-bent" frosted plex tube is layed in for a check.
the tube sits down i the channel.
The plex floor is placed back into the case and the pump and its new wire cover are put into place.
Testing with some blue light..the tube catches the light well...i may try some individual lighting effects for it tho!
Once the motherboard cover is back in you wont see much of this little mod.. but it's to know its in and done proper :)
Cripes, man! You're making us look like fools! Nobody should have this much talent, it's just not natural!
Thanx Rankenphile :)
Motherboard lights Take 2!
The first attempt i had @ this solution was bulky and awkward looking.
as seen below.... these black leads were never goint to suit this mod....
In an attempt to streemline and make the detachable dual lights more eye pleasing i came up with this.
the method of making the Dual lights was the same as before but this time ive shortened the shank of the silde on light to help streamline,
also added "white" wires to help keep a cleaner more "intheme" look.
The cover with the slot type groove that slides over the edge of the motherboard cover.
The legs are bent closer to the LED this time.
White wire which is then covered in Clear heatshrink is soldered on
The step down resistor is then soldered to the end...this takes the "bulk" out of the loom.
A qick check of the plex cover shows that it can be shortened soome more!
after some more filing and a qik "frosting" the cover is ready and slipped over the LED's...a dob of HOT glue us used to hlod it in place.
Some Clear heatshrink is slipped over and shrunk down to complete the look and the whole loom is also covered with clear heatshrink.
I'm much happier with this look :)
I like the new ones better as well, and agree they are less of an eye distraction.
dude this is frekin awesome, one question? isnt all that lighting going to take up loads of precious molex connectors or did i miss something?
Nice.
@nobody :) naaa all the led's are hardwired..or will be:)
just nutting few a few way to do things atm... i have put a few hours into this since last update..but these are just different lighting tekniques and nothing pic worthy as yet :)
keep an eye out for "STORM'D"!
This mod is amazing.
Looks cool
Ever think of building/hooking up some sort of lighting control circuits?
You could get some weird & cool effects going.
Something like the LM3916 could make cool effects
Yu even go a cheaper rough by uses some 555's (556 for duel package) to control the skew rate from a 555 running as an oscillator.
... I don't know the first thing about case modding. But I can say that this may just be an inspiration into the first mod that I may, or at least want to do.
Could one maybe do this style of frosting to say a clear acrylic case? Or would it come out completely different... maybe I should post this on the noob board...
I FEEL SO ASHAMED!!!!!!!
it's very good!!
Cheers guys :)
Caboose, i think a frosted case could have an awsome effect!!!...i think some of the newer cases tho arn't tru acryl? so not sure how sounding thm goes?
This is the continuation of the front panel idea. i had originaly made 3 light fins the top one will act as the door for the cdrom.
These were all made from 10mm thick plex cut then hand shaped.
The problem was, the top one bearly covered the cdrom hole.
Was time to craft a bigger unit !!!
This is a massive chunck of plex! @ near 20mm x 20mm this was not easy to bend into shape 5 mins of solid hot air gun had it like rubber.
It was then lay'd over the from of HP3's front and left to cool down and go hard again.
Clamping the plex to the bench and using the dremal to knock the corners off.
40 minutes of hand sanding and the new door is taking shape.
a quik test to see that it covers the cdrom opening
and its back for some more hand sanding
after another 20 minutes the peice is almost at the right shape.
some work is done to the matching middle strip
and the 3 peices wrk from large to small ...the larger veing the cdrom door the smaller 2 being for balance and athestics.
the thicker top plex contour will have to attach to the cdcrom door , for this a custom extension block is needed.
the block will act as the spacer between the new cdrom door and the cdrom tray itself.
The block is shaped to suit the conture of the new plex door
and a qick mock up is done to see all is goin to plan.
As seen above the new cdrom door has now been sanded with finer gritt paper and has a smooth frost look.
The spacer block is to be left clear and not frosted, holes are added to help lighten the load and to add some asthectics.
This new unit is not to be attached to the cdrom tray to become one.
Holes are drilled in the tray
matching holes are also drilled into the connecting block
Threaded using a 5/32 fine tap
the whole unit is then bolted together using hex head SS bolts.
wow nice update, i think we all got engaged in stormd and forgot about this. keep up the good work.
I was wondering what ever happened to this astonishing piece of work.
Defyant, you truly make all this look far too easy. Very, very, very nice work.
thanx guys :) yer the Storm's come and gone! :P time to get back to
HP goodness.
With the cdrom in this now add as the joiner between the tray and the new plex door.
The front door will be eventually attached after painting of the case and a special "silicon strip of double sided clear plex tape " will be used to hold it in place.
The end look will be the 3 plex contours sitting spaced evenly and dual lit.
it does feel good to be modding this case again! :)
man that's sweet! nice nice nice :D
5/32? Thats the same thread type as hard disk and case screws isn't it? I've been hunting high and low for some longer screws, preferably hex-head to mount a PSU on a thicker case (see Project: Sentinel and can't find any anywhere - can you let me know where you got them. I'm in the UK but I have several friends in the US who'd be more than happy to get them for me and post them over - I only need 3 lol
Defyant would be in Australia Im guessing, judging by his posts on the OCAu forums. Finally this case gets worked on.
Cheers Glock9 , yes soz slave i'm in au.
do you guys have "specialty" hardware? where i got mine from is called a "fastners" shop.
they sell mosty anything thats threaded,
i know the larger sizes in m5 can be brought thru local car auto shops if that helps any :)
Again guys thanx heeps for the replies :) will update again soon.
Australia is no problem - I just got back from a year out there in February - spent some time in northern WA out in the middle of woop woop and most of the time in Toowoomba in QLD. I have "contacts" out there lol
heheh cheers!! hope none of them are from "wolf creek" !!!
Wow. I love the attention to detail in this mod (I'm coming in a little late, aren't I ;)?). Not much else to say but "Wow".
This whole project is SO inspiring :D
I wish that I had the skills and the tools (and the money!) to do something like that!
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this case is amazing. i wouldve never thought to sand plex to even out lighting in a case. great mod keep up the good work and keep us posted please!
this is an amazing mod - love the attention to details...
will we get to see the finished project???
Who knew that you could make an old HP look like this?
This folks, is the true essence of modding.
Cheers for the great replys guys :)
I've put HP-3 on hold for now.... to keep the HP modding spirit alive while i work thru some new ideas for this mod! ive started on HP-4 :)
I'll get to posting the new HP4 worklog asap and leave you with the promise that this worklog will resume soon :)
I think I can safely speak for all of us here when I say, "SWEET! New Defyant mod!"
Hehe. Glad to hear you're still at it. Looking forward to seeing the result.
Wow! I am so impressed, your work is masterful!!!
hey i was wondering defyant...how much does all these materials cost you on average. just curious if you don't mind. thanks
HP4 is really slick so far... look forward to it guys ;)
Cheers Stygian Shane :)
Jetty i wish i could put a price on the stuff i could use..... if i kept track of it all my wife would catch on and leave! :) but a lot of the stuff you see in my mods is recycle'd scraps!
But if you watch my workogs you'l prolly catch on that u use left overs from on mod to the next :) this helps the budget alot when it works.
For now guys pop over to this thread hopefully it will fill the void while i work out where to go next with HP-3.
http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/f...2522#post22522
Ive had plenty of time to think this next mod out!
I was gazumped!!! as what to do about an ON/OFF button for this mod....To have added a button no matter how cool or what shape i felt would spoil the look of the front facia,
I toyed for weeks about possibly going "remote"! but still wanted a "hard" option.
In the end the answer had been staring me in the face "ia" the whole time!
all i needed to do was mod one of the front light accents! :)
Since the top on was the CDROM door! it would have to be the second or third (lower) light feature i would mod.
I decided the second was the one :)
The idea is that you will "PRESS" the while light feature and it will turn the PC on and off.
For a mod like this to work, it will have to be spring loaded , Srings?....Nps :)
Pend springs will have just the right amount of "spring" for the job.
The springs will have to sit flush on the front panel! so it will have to the the plex light feature that is drilled.
The hole is drilled just deep enuf to allow the spring to fully compress inside its hole.
The Unit will now need a locking device, for this ive decided to use cleat plex screws!
For screws to work i'll ned to drill a deeper smaller hole where the spring hole is now
A thread will also need to be tapped so the screw can be secured.
Matching holes will need to be drilled into the front panel.
the new unit can now be sat on for a test
now knowing that the Push action will work! it's time to connect the switch!!!
Some small clear rod is needed this will slide thru the front to a back mounted switch.
another hold is drilled, this time for a press tight fit.
A matching hole is drilled into the front panel
The extension will slide thru.
a small enclosed type switch housing will need to be made to hole the ATX switch using some larger clear tube.
As you can its pretty simple idea, the tube is glued and the swtch will be side and glued inside of the tube.
The switch is wired and glued into position.
The end result is s working push button, that can be easily removed by undoing the 2 outer screws.
hahaha, that's GREAT!
