TRIBALOVERKILL, "Blackout"

Not really an update but whatever,... more like planning.

Jun-06-2007

First. Look at this. I pulled it off the lian-li. It's a thread-sert of some kind. It made of steel and it's only comprised of one piece. Not like standard thread-serts that start off as one piece and end up as two. Regular thread-serts expands around the hole holding it in place. Also,.. regular thread-serts have a face? on one side and the expanded body on the other side. This thing in the pic does not expand around the hole. It doesnt even pass completely through the hole! It's flush as hell on one side and on the other side is where this thing is. It overal height is like half, maybe less then half the height of a regular thread-sert. Its has areas to it,... a tiny tube like thing on top. This is what goes inside your holes. Then there is the portion with these triangular teeth that get pressed into the aluminum around your holes. This keeps it from spinning as you screw in your bolt. Then theres the portion that rest against the aluminum, the main body I guess you could call it. This is is slick as hell! It's neat and clean looking when installed and when it is installed,... it's not like this thing is going anywhere either! I had to use pliers to rip it out! I destroy the first one I tried pulling out. When I released that it was only pressed in I just pulled really hard and out it came. You guyz have to help me find these! I want them. I cant find them anywhere. I am thinking about emailing lian-li and asking them if they could tell me. I am pretty sure the holes are heated before these thigns are pressed in. So the holes expands a bit. Makes it easier to get it in. Once it's in the hole cools and shrinks around it holding it lieka champ. Not sure.

Here's the flush side. You see the silver holes there. Thats all there is on this side of the hole. It's friggin awesome! Help me find out what they are specifically called, who makes them, and whre to get them. I want these.

Anyways,... here's my PSU hole I cut way back in the day. I am mapping out the holes to mount the psu mounting plate.

You see the silver cot just under the wheel? Wheel here what that is,... I had to drill two holes right under the mobo tray. I couldnt get the drill in there to drill those out. So what I did was,... I put some wood under the case and use a pointy center punch or nail and kept whacking the will be holes from the inside of the case punching a hole as deep as I could get it. once I got deep enough, I turned the case over so I could see the botom of the case. I fould the little dome like dents I made and used a dremel cut-off wheel and lightly ground away the dent until I could see the tiny hole I made from puching from the inside. I used this as my pilot hole to drill from the outside. Worked great.

Here's the psu plate in place.

Yea yea yea yeaaaa.

Little psu plate arm thingies.

The new psu on the plate. It's an OCZ 600watt something something something. What a pain to get out. They make em so you cant get them out or atleast easily.

Pump tower in place. Sizing things up so I know what I can and cant do,...

Its amazing how tight everything is but still,... it all clears. The reall amazing part is that I planned it to be like this. Carefull planning pays off guyz. When it works,... what a feeling!

Look at that,... beautiful!

God I just love the overlapping of hardware like that. it's like a system. Designed to work just like that. So cool.

I have a pretty good idea of what im going to do here,... there are still some thing I have to figure out.

Underside of psu plate. I going to make a large version of the fan box underside grill to put here. I think its going to look HOT.

Here's some planning for ya,... 3 major pieces that I will be starting very soon. Two grills and a fan shroud plate. A lot more to plan though

Wow. How tiring this was,... yeA.

Jun-10-2007

Chocolate. Donuts. Milk. Mommy. A half a gallon of milk in the studio,... ha.

MMMMMMMMMMM,... check out them seams. So flawless. took me awhile to get these 3 peices cut like this. I was losing my mind. My 90 degree angle tools were like warped or something. My pieces of aluminum were off as much as a 1/16" as little as 1/32". Thats not good. I went to the store and I was looking for a good ACCURATE angle. I couldnt F@#$ing find one! I was there for a like an hour trying to figure out what to get! This dude comes over to me and asks if I need help. He said,... you've been standing there for awhile. I looked at him and totally dropped the bomb on him. I told him, "these tools suck! They are all off! None of them are a true 90 degrees! The companies who make these tools pop em out of thier molds,... paint the damn numbers on them and ship em out. They dont care that their off. The numbers on them dont even last,... they rub off with a bit of usage! If I shold find one that seems straight or atleast straight enough,... it like warps/ loses it shape. Bows,... whatever. All these tools are meant for carpentry,... the carpenters dont care that they are a bit off. I work with metal,... I see that my work is off by a 32nd of and inch! I really hate that! ARGH!" So,.... yea. The guy looked like he was about to start crying. Well,... not really. But ****,... he was looking at me as if I was nuts. Oh well,... I found two angle thingies that I settled for.

They worked:)

Here's the fan shroud plate for inside the computer. Going againt the back wall. I'm thinking about reducing the size of the 120mm hole. That one area looks kind of thin in the pic. Not sure if its just the pic though becuase it didnt bother me when I had it in front of me. We'll see.

Here's the grill for the PSU. This is going under the case. Going to kind of match the little grill I made for the fan box intake hole thing. This is going to be a lot of scroll saw time,... lordy.

All 3 pieces. The grill going on the back of the computer isnt done being drawn out etc. It's one big grill,... mathcing the underside PSU grill. All of them are going to be polished out. I think its going to look hot.

Again,... a lot of scroll saw time:(

Should have these done within the next two days:)

jeez TO, those are gonna be sexy when done

as far as tools are concerned, you may want to look into machining quality tools

you wont go wrong :)

Wow Tribal,

You got some stones to take on that filing and scroll-sawing work! Keep it up bro!

Jon

Getting cool!

Jun-11-2007

I did some cutting as you can see. The fan shrough is looking nice. Just have to bend that one little thing and then see how she fits,...

At first I though I F@#$ed up but i forgot that teh inside piece is way different then the outside piece. So far,... they are perfect.

Bent the tab thing.

Other side of the tab thingie,...

AND HE SCORES!!!!!! Damn,... this thing fit in there just like that. I had to file down the tab thing just a bit but that was it! Slid right in there.

Look at that fit! Like it belongs there or it came with the case,...

From the outside,...

Pulled it down so you can see how it fits in there,...

A rear shot. As you can see I have to cut some more away from what was a Lian-Li.

You see the holes I drilled out for the 120mm fan? You see how the holes line up withe the holes in the case that were meant for the fan? How cool is that! I totally measured everything with a ruler. I I took all those measurments and drew out my part, the parrt you see now. You see how perfect! AHHHH!!! LOL.

One big ass grill. Thats going to look cool all polished out.

I have off tonight. I will be in the studio for a LOOOOOOOOONG time. I want these grills cut, shaped, and mounted by the end of the day. Would like to start something else on teh PSU too but I just stick with finishing this stuff first.

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Originally Posted by jdbnsn

Wow Tribal,

You got some stones to take on that filing and scroll-sawing work! Keep it up bro!

Jon

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Oi, It's gonna be a lot of work,...

Now thats some really great work. I'm impressed and Im going to watch this thread.

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Originally Posted by Tale Gunner

Now thats some really great work. I'm impressed and Im going to watch this thread.

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As I'm watching yours,... You think I can have borrow your router setup, LOL.

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Originally Posted by tribaloverkill

As I'm watching yours,... You think I can have borrow your router setup, LOL.

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Any time sure!

Very cool!

Jun-12-2007

Started cutting out the grills,... wasn't that bad but still, it was a major pain in the arse.

Done cutting the first grill,...

Looking nice,....

So,... I was able to cut out everything you see with one little blade. I was really puching it too. I was totally tired and just wanted to get it done. If I was easier on the blade I bet I could of done a lot more.

Everything all cut out. Just needs to be filed now,... S@#$.

Smaller grill filed and now,... im cutting the grooves to bend the little tab sides thingies,...

Grooves cut,... very nice.

Bending the sides,...

I use a big piece of angle iron to do my bending now:) Works good:)

All done. With bending that is,...

Very nice,..

Old corner,...

New corner,...

This is how I round the corners to make the look as if it was continuous. I just smash the aluminum together with a tack hammer. Think of aluminum as really hard clay. It really easy to mold.

What you think? I like it.

Represent,...