Sorry for interrupting you, but all you need to visit this I think they are similar, aren't they?
P.S. I'm Russian. Excuse me for grammatical mistakes.
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Sorry for interrupting you, but all you need to visit this I think they are similar, aren't they?
P.S. I'm Russian. Excuse me for grammatical mistakes.
They are similiar, yes, however, this sail is curved out while the other is curved in. Also, this sail has more details going into it while the other, which is great, seems to have less with a fabric finish.
Excellent work so far...looking forward to hearing your status update.
that is your opinion. ik think they are both great but indeed very differnt
I think after more than a month it´s time for a further update. Unfortunately I haven´t a lot of time so I hope it isn´t such a big problem for you that I show you only some pictures with only a few words. Well and if you have maybe some questions to the following pictures please ask me and I´ll give you an answer.
I´ll glue this little piece of Plexiglas at the tube in the front to hold the whole sail that it has no chance to overturn and the three LEDs are the power LEDs. For better imagination I made a test piece that you could see at the next picture
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Well I also started with building the seal for the bottom of the Plexiglas tube in the front.
Under this seal I´ll install 4 high power LEDs to illuminate the water very well.
For this pictures I used only three Superflux LEDs. The part that is under the Plexiglas plate will be later in the black socket.
Moreover I bored the holes for the 2 120mm fans in the backpanel.
Ready with this I made the bottom plate for the internal space.
At the end 3 pictures from the whole case.
And now we are at the end of this update. I only have on picture for you.
A OCZ Agility series sata 2 2,5” SSD with 30GB that I got warmly from OCZ for this project.
@SXRguyinMA/ Vitz¥^/Eclecticos/River82falcon: Thanks guys for your compliments!!!
@OvRiDe: I´m looking forward to see the FZE in action, too. Thanks you for moving the thread.
@tomcatt: Thank´s for your vote, but unfortunately I had 2 votes too little for the first place…;-)
@Mark_Hardware: Well I think the coolers aren´t so little how you think…;-)
@Waynio: Thanks for your commitment to vote for me! Well you could only vote than you have enough post or something like this I think.
If you have a nomination please tell it me and I´ll vote for you!
@Datech: Ohhhhh thanks to devote my project for the “weekly spotlight”, it´s a big honor for me!
@Beasonde: I didn´t see this case before and in my opinion my concept and this case are very different.
@Cheron: I second that! Only the basic form of this two cases are similar.
Looks like solid progress to me. I really like how this project is shaping up.
/\ me too :)
Nice perforation mate, so it can be done good with a normal drill :), looks great, to be honest I think some mods get put in to the mod of the month a little too early on bit tech, especially if it is up against a near completed mod, if your case was closer to completion you would have had a much better chance, but yeah missed getting my vote in with being new there :(.
This mod is turning out amazing, I want to make an irregular shaped case rather than just a cube now lol :), look forward to seeing the end product & wicked sponserships :D, ssd's are awesome for an os drive, vista behaves as snappy as xp did now for me.
nice
looks great!
Hello,
after nearly two weeks I think it´s time for a further update. After I made the bottom plate for the interior I could start with cutting out the back plate for the interior.
To connect this plate with the bottom and the rear I filed some feet made of 8mm Plexiglas.
This feet I glued with acryfix at the back plate. After the acryfix was dry I mark the right positions to cut M3 thread in the aluminum.
Ready with this I could start with bending the 3mm white Plexiglas on that I´ll install the LEDs to illuminate the inner space. For this I built at first a form over that I could bend the Plexiglas.
During I built the form I hopped to get a great idea how I could heat up the 90cm long Plexiglas stripe easily, because the stripe was to long for a normal oven. Unfortunately I didn´t get a better idea how to split it into two parts.
Now I had the size how long the circuit stripes for he LED have to be. So I started directly with cutting out of them.
At each of this stripes I soldered on 3 warm white superflux LEDs.
I connected all the stripes, so that I have to solder only one plug and put it into a 9V bush.
After the LEDs for the inner space were soldered very well I could start with the LEDs for the rear. For this I bored at first 80 5mm holes in the frame made of Plexiglas.
Next I grinded off the heads from the LEDs to get a bigger angle of radiation. I also cut the cables that I needed to the right length and removed the isolations of the ends.
Right after I was ready with soldering the LEDs I assembled all provisional to see the light effect and especially to make a photo from it, that you could see it to…;-)
Ready with soldering LEDs it was time again to bore some holes in the rear plate. But at first I had to find the right position of the 150 holes.
For this I made a „sketch“with a CAD program. I think it´s a lot of better than a sketch with pencil and ruler, because on the one hand it´s 100% exactly and on the other it´s more easier to rework the sketch a little bit.
And so looks the upper side of the rear after I tortured the 4,5mm borer about 150 times. I think the result looks relative good and nearly like a CNC work…;-).
In contrast to the holes in the lower part of the rear you see in the upper part the holes from inside and outside.
Now I could devote to the Plexiglas stripe that will be installed infront of the LEDs to refract the light of them. For this I start again with building a form to bend the Plexiglas stripe over it.
How you could see is this form a little bit more exactly than the other form. Reason for this ist the fact that you don´t see the stripe on that the LEDs are so it wasn´t necessary to work accurate to a millimeter.
Ready with this I faced to the same problem how I descriped you at the start of this update namely how to heat up a 80cm long Plexiglas stripe. But now I find a solution that you could see the following picture
I don´t know why I hadn´t this idea much more earlier, but better late than never…;-)
Thant he Plexiglas stripe was heat up to 170°C I could start with bending it.
Before I take the Plexiglas out of the oven I filled the bottles with boiling hot water, because cold water would eliminate the heat of the Plexiglas instantly.
After the stripe was bending I cut out the stripe that it fitted exactly between the backside and the GRP form.
Now I assembled all provisional again to give you a little impression how the case looks with the LED light.
Well and now we are nearly at the end of this update. Nearly means that I have a question to you once again. The question is about the socket, because I´m not really sure how it looks best. To “help” you a little bit I rendered 3 Versions with Cinema 4D for you.
And now I would be very happy, if you could post your opinion to the socket.
@OvRiDe/don’t-FeaR/rithunder916
@ :Waynio: Well I think like you that some mods get put in to the mod of the month a little too early on bit tech. I was a kind of “startled” than I saw my case nominated for mod of the month. But what´s the point, I think is isn´t really tragic more important is that I finished this mod as soon as possible and a lot of people will like it…;-)
nice work, as always. :up:
