those bay drives are prrrreddy :)
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those bay drives are prrrreddy :)
Why thank you, sir. :D
I was finally able to find some suitably industrial-looking (and sexy, admit it) hard drive enclosures.
Hope to have a sizeable update done in the next couple of days, as it has warmed up here and I'm off work. Stay tuned...
Nice HDD enclosures, are they the Scythe Himuro? Where externally will you be mounting them again?
You know your kit well, they are indeed. :) They will be hanging on the outside of the right side panel, with the wires running through copper tubing back to the eSATA ports on my board and into the case to power.
Sounds like a great idea.
/\ yeah it does... now do it!!! lol
Awesome project! The gears are awesome.
Well, I decided that the stacked dual optical drives were just plain boring, so I built a whole new front panel and turned them on their sides. :)
The clear square in the center is the lens for my analog temperature gauge, it looks a lot better there than it did underneath them before.
Of course, turning them on their side meant that I had to build a whole new support cage. This one is more complex, and I think it turned out very well. (The bolts you see coming through the front panel are what I'll be using in the end, but of course I'll have black nuts on them.)
Tomorrow, if all goes well I'll get the hole cut out for the front intake fan. I'm still waiting on parts for the new geartrain.
I'm not having any luck with the paint, however. I've tried Metal Effects in iron, copper and bronze, with four different patinas: blue, green, black, and rust. I just can't seem to get the old, corroded look I want. I may have to go another route...
Very nice work on the drive mounts, they look very good, very different.
