Yup. They are covered. I am most likely going to wire up new buttons and put them below the drives somewhere within the free space below. I might move the audio out jacks and the volume wheels too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xbrid
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Yup. They are covered. I am most likely going to wire up new buttons and put them below the drives somewhere within the free space below. I might move the audio out jacks and the volume wheels too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xbrid
Looking SUPERB!!!, keeps getting better and better.
Keep up the Excellent work. :D :D
PS - Out of curiosity (hope u don't mind me asking) how pricey is the tinted acrylic?
Here in the UK, is stupidly expensive trying to get any plastic/metal sheeting.
I keep looking at some of the prices of stuff on the US hardware sights.... :mad: :mad:
You Yanks don't know how lucky u are.... ;)
Thanks! I 60$ for the tinted, thats a 4' x 8' sheet and I paid 100 for the 4' x 8' sheet of UV green. Sorry about the pricing down by you. That sucks. You tried going to a scrap metal yard for metal? I got hude sheets of aluminum for a couple of bucks!Quote:
Originally Posted by UK-Blade
Yeah, Im gonna try contacting a few places about buying some of the off cuts. Could come in handy for smaller parts of the case mod, plus should be a bit cheaper. :D
Worst that can happen is that they say no....
wow that tinted plexi in the front looks sweet!
They wont say no. Selling scrap instead of throwing it out, who would say no?Quote:
Originally Posted by UK-Blade
Thanks bro.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cardan
UPDATE! I wasn't really successful today. Today was more like one of those experimenting trying to figure out a way too,... day. Anyways,... check the pics,...
Once again,... reservoir before.
Reservoir after. I flame polished it, obviously.
Pieces that will be used for the optical drive tray panels. Yes,... there is UV green acrylic there. I finally cut up the sheet of UV green stuff. This stuff is so cool.
UV green.
After first cut.
All the UV shavings left over after using the router. It doesn't look like much in the picture but its cool as hell in person.
All done cutting. Ready for the corners to be rounded.
Lit up.
Tinted rounded and in its slot. I am not going to use these because I made them a tiny bit to small. I mean like a 32 of an inch, LOL. Yea. Thre are other reason I dont want to use them.
The tinted and UV together on the front of the tray. This is what it's going ot look like, without the hand of coarse.
Another shot of the tinted in place.
Lit up.
This stuff is so cool.
This is what the front of the computer is goin gto look like. The UV behind the tinted. Also,... the edges of the UV have been rounded just a bit so you can see the glowing edges looking from head on. Sweet isnt? ISNT IT!!
Here's the PSONE painted black. Not exactly the best paint job but it's black and theres none no the screen:)
why did u paint the screen???:eek: now u wont be able to see anything on it??? :?
edit: *sinks back into chair*
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Originally Posted by Xbrid
he wrote "there's none on the screen"--he just painted the frame :D
lookin' great, cant wait to see the front completed and lit up.
LOL, have some coffee :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Xbrid
FINALLY! It took me almost a whole day to make these stupid little tray panels!!! They are finished so I am happy. Pics,...
Here's is the template I made.
Here is how I rounded the corners. I think it belongs to a toilet.
I cut the first two. I only cut by two because when you cut by anything more it becomes inaccurate atleast when the pieces are this small.
All the panels cut and ready to be drilled.
First panel in place.
Heres the front of the tray. I cut the notches you see.
These panels are removable baby! Hell yea!
Theres a small square of foam inbetween the acrylic and the face of the drive tray. This is to help keep the acrylic vertical because the original face is slightly round.
Both panels finished.
Let me know what you think! I dont know how I will light up these panels yet but I will let you know when I do. Also,... if a cdrom should get stuck inside the devises I will have to remove the devise to unlock the trays.
WOW thats looking good ;) keep it up man
those trays are looking excellent---why not plot out and drill a 1/16th inch hole for the emergency release mechanism---it wont detract from the look at all :)
Thats true,... but how often do you actually use that emergency release? I never had to use it. I figured that if I ever had to use it, removing 4 little screws wouldnt bother me all that much. Crimson, I'M YOUR GREATEST FAN! LOL. I had to get that out. I love your work bro. You have some true talent.Quote:
Originally Posted by Crimson Sky
Gotta tell you i look all over the net at case mods and i must say you hit top3 on my list( i cant choose which i like best between my top 3). But anyways you do some high quality work and i cant believe you dont have much experience in the areas you're modding such as metal and acrylic work.
Where do you get your acrylic cuz a 4 x 8 sheet of the tinted acrylic at the place that i just bought some from, it was 150$ and i believe you said you got it for 60$ could be mistaken though.
Also I know i saw the bit you used in these pictures for the router but for the life of me i cant find it again. Me and my dad are building a computer desk for me (huge its the main feature of my room) and the top is acrylic and were hacing trouble cutting it so i was curious what type of bit you used to do you're nice cuts.
**sorry for any mis-spellings etc i dont really want to re-read this or put it through a spell check.
Hey, Thanks for the compliments and dont worry about the spelling, I mistype all the time. I did get the tinted acylic for $60. I got it at this place called E&T plastics in mount laurel new jersey. Look up E7T plastics online, they have a site. The two bits I use for the router is a rounded bit and a straight edge bit. Both are carbide bits. That is a must. Even though its plastic,... it dulls regualr bits fast! I got them from a home depot. You can get them at a lowes or some equivalent. Get one with a ball bearing collar and use it! It works great! Setup a straight edge as I did in my work log and just run the bit down it. Work everytime! Go here for some pics,... this is my main log. http://www.gruntville.com/phpBB2/vie...=asc&start=420
Oh,... if you do it with the rulers,... dont use painted ruller as the paint comes off on the router bit and the surface of the ruler becomes even and rough.
I didnt get a chance to tell my dad what to get b4 he did i told him waht the bit looked like by memory last night and luckily he gota perfect match carbide and everything. We allready did test cuts and i feel it was rather amazing. i might use rulers when it comes time for my case mod(but right now the table is about 2 feet and maye a lil larger and its a corner desk so in all its 4 feet wide and 8 feet long which means were doing fencing) . i actually just recieved the styrene plastic im going to be giving a try. lots of curves on my pc mod minimal acrylic use if any. But anyways thanks, and i hope you dont mind but i might come back to you for a lil more help later.
You do that I dont mind helping. Becarful with fencing,... I had no luck with it. I think it's my router table that gave me the trouble. I couldnt cut straight perfect lines with it. Thats why I went with the ruler method. Anyways, good luck with it.Quote:
Originally Posted by sXenoG
A small meaning less update.
I had to do something about these foam pads. As you can see by the pictures, they weren't really doing a good job.
Mainly because of this. I cut it this big so that the panel could be adjusted to fit the hole in the front panel. I need sosething to cover it up a bit but still be able to adjust. What could I make?!?!?!?!?
I could make these!!! ARent they AMAZING!!! SHOCK ANS AWE BABY!
This is how they work. Esy. I stagger the foam and the plates like this to keep the panel vertical. I do this because the old face panel is roundand the new panel tilts on it.
Also,... check this out. I rounded the edges a bit with a razor blade. I scraped the edges round I didnt cut them. When cutting acrylic, your not really "cutting" or you don't want to "cut", you want to scrape to cut. "Cutting" leads to breaking. remeber that. It's important. Anyways,... I rounded the edges as I said I was going to do so you can see a glowing edge around the whole panel while staring at the front of it. I also saned it a bit too because the scraping left some nice clear scrapes which you could see when it was lit up. That being because the light was passing through the clear areas as oppose to being diffused like the last of the ares. It looks a hell of alot better in person and behind the tinted acrylic.
Next year I will be going to MML with this case,... you all need to come out and see her in person :D
Ok,... you take a razor blade and you hold the blade against the edge of the acrylic so that the blade is vertical or perpendicular to the edge. With a little bit a pressure pushing down on the blade run it across the edge. You should see a string of acrylic come off as you do it. Once down sand it down to give that diffused look:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Draeth
Looking absolutely wonderful if you ask me. AS IM SURE you have heard many many times by now through your project really like your idea using ur hobby knife to do the edge.
Oh man no updates on this for a while. I really want to see how this project turns out.
Yea,... I know. I just got off of vacation. On the last day of my vacation I crashed my bike at the virginia international raceway. I was hit by another rider and was thrown off my bike at about 60 - 70mph. So,... I was banged up, a bit. Plus I got use to sleeping nights, I work night shift. So when I get home from work, instead of working on the puter I was going to bed. I was tired as hell. I started working on it the last couple of days. Havent really got anything done, just planning and figuring things out. Right now I am trying to figure out where I am going to put everything instead. It's tight! Two days at this and I just figured it out. It going to be a sweet setup. Just wait. I have two ports at the top of the reservoir which is mounted up higher then the rest of the WCing stuff(except rads). One is for filling and the other is for escaping air. You open both and fill. IT makes filling faster and a bit neater. My filling ports are bit bit smaller then usual so thats why I through in the air port. You dont need to open the case at all to drain/ fill this machine. all ports are excessible from the outside. I am not using danger dens fill ports either. I made my own:) I have a "T" which is going to be located at lowest point of the WCing loop. The drain port will be located in the back of the case, somewhere. All you need to do and put the case at the edge of a table and open the port. Just catch everything in a bowl. Easy as that. It's hot. I have so much to do. I am trying to get as much done as possible. Certain things have to be done at certain times. This is why I am jumping around from task to task. I have some pictures of what I started but I am not going to post them until this task is done and that is mounting the reservoir, pumps, installing the ports and tubes. Crazy thing is that once I am done with this I have to take it all out again. LOL. Sucks but doesnt. Anyways,... I'm tired going to bed. Peace.
Oh and I am in the process of redoingthe panels for the trays. I'm doing it the right way now. You'll see what I have done once I have pics of the work. Bye.
oh the suspense is killing me!
Sorry to hear about the bike spill whats killing you most, the gettin beat up or the loss of your new bike (assuming its the new one). Glad to hear you're back to working on the case tho, have beenw ondering where youve been :P
Yeah man sorry to hear about your spill. Glad your everything is alright though. I can't wait for the new updates. I feel like I am having withdraw from this mod you where updating so much at one point!
HA HA HA, I still have my bike. Theres only minor damage to the bike. Thats crazy because the crash should of demolished the bike. I'll show you some pics later. I also have an update! You guyz are going to love this! I'll post it in a little bit, have to take my gurl bowling:) Peace!Quote:
Originally Posted by sXenoG
What going bowling without me? Im offended! lol Happy to hear about the bike tho. I would have freaked if something new of mine went up in smoke. Now hurry up and get back from bowling. Sheesh you're like dangling a bone in front of us that we cant get! Thats just not right :P
UPDATE! YEA! I'm gonna be quick about this. I want to upload my track pics and the wreck pics too. Check it out,...
Ok,... heres a brass elbow I got from home depot. I'm goign to use this with the reservoir but first I need to drill out some of that meat in there. Very narrow passage.
Done. Now, another problem,...
This,... no problem. I'll just drill that out too.
After drilling it again this is what I ended up with. Nice isnt it?
I'm using RED thread locker for my threads. I trust this stuff over tape. I will be using tape when it comes to the reservoir though, it's acrylic.
Here is how everything will be setup. How friggin cool is that! I wanted the pumps to be mounted identical to ech other as oppose to one pump facing one direction and the other facing a different direction. I wanted the reservoir up high so it can do its job catching air. It just crossed my mind now that I forgot and drain line. Crap. Thats ok. I still have a small piece of hose left that might just be long enough. Thats crazy because that mean I bought just enough hose. LOL. Anyways,... feast your eyes.
Check out this reservoir mounting. It's mounted right to the top of the case with two nylon washers which are keeping it from touching the top of the case. One port is for escaping air while filling. Makes it a bit easier to fill. The ID of those ports are a bit smaller then the rest of the system so filling will be a bit slower. But with the air port it won't wont be all that slow. I have threaded plugs that screw into them when the system is filled. The rad housing will be over those ports somewhat hiding them. I dont really want them to be all that hidden because I like them and I want people to kinda of see them so they can ask about them. The fill hose will have a fitting on the end of ti that will screw into the fill port. The fill hose is smaller in diameter so it can bend alot easier. Theres just enough height once the rad housing is bolted to the case to screw in the fill hose to fill. It's perfect. There goign to be a drain port just like this on the back of the case.
Here's what I did for the tray panels. I epoxied and piece of tinted acrylic to the front of the trays. I filed it down to size and when done, it looks like it was there the whole time:) Just the way I like it:) I cut little mounting grooves and,...
got this.
Now,... check this out. I needed a support bracket for the reservoir. I didnt want to accidently hit the reservoir and crack the threaded holes. The only thing holding up the reservoir are the ports. I need something to hold it other then the ports. This is the start of the bracket. The long strip you see I cut initially. I cut it from the aluminum I got from the junkyard. When I tried the bend a 90 degree with it,... it broke everytime. I tried heating it. Still broke. I dont have the means of heating it enough to bend it to that degree. The alloy is the same of the case, I think. IT slightly harder which means it breaks a bit easier when bent to much without enough heat. So I cut another strip out of the stuff I got from my friend. This aluminum is a bit softer which means it bends alot easier without any heat.
Here I'm bending a 90 degree. I already started bending the strip around the reservoir.
Here it almost done. There will be a bolts where the clamp is. There will be two more pieces that will bent 90 degrees each. They will be bolt to the top of the case. The support arm will be bolted between them just as it is between the tabs the the bracket.
Tomorrow first thing in the morning I will get back to work! What do you think?
Just out of curiousity I dont kno if you discussed this yet but what happens if one pump fails, or one pumps more then the other will this hurt the other pump ne?
Well,... if one pump fails. It will restrict the flow just a bit, atleast I would imagine it would. The coolant will still be able to flow through the failed pump. The flow wont be as great seeing that one pump will be moving water through the entire system. I will have ways of checking for pump activity.Quote:
Originally Posted by sXenoG
Here's the track pics,...
http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/tr...rkill/vir.html
Here's the wreck pics,...
http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/tr...ill/wreck.html
Enjoy.
P.S. How you guyz think I look in spandex? I think I am one sexy B@#$%!
Your Wreck gets the 404 error page.Quote:
Originally Posted by tribaloverkill
Looks like you do the same bike racing as one of my co-workers.
Sticky this!
And mine too :D
The wreck link works now. Sloth if you can see pics before page 13 then I dont know whats wrong. All the pics are on the same server. Got o gruntville.com and look for my other log in the worklog forum. See if you can see them there.
Yea! Sticky this! LOL. And his! LOL.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheGreatSatan
Done!!