Project H-1 concept pc

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testing

The mounts are cut from solid 10mm thick plex, counter sunk drilled and drilled for the locating screws.

Again perspex glue is used to hold these in place.

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The bottem or base of the new plex chassis is glued into place, with this glued on i will be able to
stand the unit up.

The micro atx motherboard-wall/back panel can now be put in place.

the mother board is sat into place and the brass locators are marked for threading.

after the locators are screwed in the mothercan be screwed in and the back wall can be marked for cutting to accept the rear metal IO panel.

after some carfull meauremants and some dremal cutting the IO panel can be checked for fit.

Next is to remove the unit, and check for what will be the 4 exhaust fans.

since this is such a small case, ive opted to use 4 x 40mm fans,


2 will move the air from the backside of the mother board where the psu is and 2 to remove air from the top side where the motherboard and HDD will
be sitting.

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Flipping the Case upright i can next see how the HDD will sit, and check to top " roof cavity " panel for the Fan Rad mod!

The top section is perfect to acommodate the cooling duties, it was the first thought i'd had for this mod, and has almost work out too
perfect.

The section is almost perfectly vented to handle to mod. the side vents will allow cool air in while to top vents will allow the warmed air out.

the back will also be modded with mesh to allow better flow.

a simple mock up shows that this will work fine.

some custom brackets will be welded in.

Some old speaker grill mesh will be used to make the new rear......the top section is put on hold, i'll be going into Xcom tommorrow to see
if the new cooler master watercooling kit will be a better way to go.

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Moving onto the back panel


after the metal io panel is painted with matt back the previously marked back panel is cut.

with he 4 x 40mm 2 x frontside and 2 x backside fans are bolted in.

thanx to some very carfull measuring the assembly fits perfect

Standing the unit up shows even @ this early stage of constuction it will be a very solid unit!

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I love having 2 mods on the go at once!!!

when i get bored... or ideas stop flowing or i need to think about things for a bit, i can just start up on the second mod

it kinda feels like cheeting!!! but it seems to work



i wanted to get the front panel under spray putty primer while we actually had a good sunny day to work with!

needed to do a few small mods before this could be done,

starting with the smallest of mods H-1's power button! nothing special here, flush mounting it is pretty simple stuff.

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Next was to add a Power light and a HDD signal light!.... i wanted somthing that worked in with the curves of the mod,

putting in round lights wasnt goin to cut it.....using the same technique as the frosted style defyant lights on HPR3 i went
for somthing i think works well with this shape.


working around the shape of the fron port hole cutting 2 triangle shaped holes.

These were cleaned up...altho still not perfect the final shape will come with the shaping ofthe putty.


ruff holes are cut using a dremal

cleaned-up and shaped using small files

Next was to make a template of the shapes,scrap thin see thru plex was used.

Next using the drill press and a sanding stone was to put a lip..or edge onthe small clear plex lights to allow them to sit flush with the front.

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The new plex lights are taken inside and are further shaped with wet rubbing and given a frosting!!

time to do the mandatory light test!!

with that out of the way... the front panel can go outside for final wetrub with 800 and a few good coats of spray putty.

t'was time to get back to H-1's power source.

amicro 250w psu is to be used in H-1.. some small modding is needed and the loom is covered with simply black flex.

some tidy up work is needed here, but this gives you guys the idea of where the PSU sits in relation to the layout.

the inner front wall can be cut and glued in ..the hole is to allow the front port to connect.

the motherboard back wall can be placed in to check all fits well.

the freshly dried front facia can be tested for fit also.

The porthole is connectet via a modded "baddong duct"..

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the idea of the front porthole is to allow air to the sublevel or rear of the case....under the mtherboard to cool the back end of the pc

heat from the motherboard side of the case is handled with help of the 2 rear fans and top 120 radfan.



Air is ducted thru the fron porthole thru the innner duct

along the underside of the motherboard or back panel

and exhausted thru the 2 x 40's @ the rear

fitting on the top rad housing.

Next was s bit of self indulgence


i had an idea for idea for a "interchangeable" window concept and thought what better way to try the idea then on a concept PC



the idea is to fab up simple channels to slot in new windows! this way i can add a colour windew to change the appearance of the case.

the end result will be to workit in with a matching front window so the case has a theme.


using a thingymajig to get some round courners

next step simple enuf cut out the hole.

to make the channels to slide the diff windows in is just a simple matter of slide rails.

6 pecies of thin precut plex are used.

the thinner 3 are glued down onto the back of the window panel

the thicker peices are then glued ontop of the tinner peices to make the channel

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putting the windows in is simple!

you guys can see the versatility of being able to change windows!this give H-1 a feature and will incorp a similar

idea to match in the front facia panel.

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WOW! I like the orange and the green! but this thing is AMAZING! props to you!