Project: Elements of Fortune

[tomcatt]

Thank you very much all !!

I’m going to begin on the intake, because my saw machine is still not available in store.

Two 120mm FANs (white) with orange plexi and shiny aluminum to finish it.

I have used a hammer and some grips to bend the aluminum.
The result is not that great but it’s ok

The hole for the intake

More bending

I made holes for the two 120mm FANs

This is not the final result, but I got a lot of screens to share

[DonT-FeaR]

wow... what program did you use to make that cad?

looks really really nice GW

[tomcatt]

wow... what program did you use to make that cad?

looks really really nice GW

I just used Sketchup from google, Although I am learning Solidworks and 3DS max ... but I kinda suck in those programs

[rendermandan]

Wow, just, Wow.

You are putting a ton of effort into this. Keep it up! +rep.

[DonT-FeaR]

wow... compared to every1 i suck at sketch up

[tomcatt]

hmm hehe, Thanks everyone !

I got nominated on Bit-Tech.net, normally I would be happy, but not this time
Why? Well I don't have anything to show what is realy "WOW" ... so my chances of not getting the winner are once again not good

anyway - update is coming !

[tomcatt]

Okay, here is some progress on the work…

The intake Cooling box was not entirely finished, it needed to have a plexi border.

Not good, I only need the borders above the FANs, and I don’t want to see them on the box itself. So I made it a bit shorter…

That is what I wanted
After this, I sanded the box

Using MDF 4mm wood, I made the sides of the box…

As for now, the box is at rest… I only need to add the right orange coolers, polish the box, and use some dustfilters to complete it.

[tomcatt]

On to the next part …
But before I began on the hard drive casings, I sanded the bottom so that I could leave it besides for a month. When I get my new figure-saw-machine, I will go on with the bottom and stuts

In the beginning of the week, I bought some bolts that I will use in this project (of course)

And I also made the window in the bottom.

- the beginning of the hard drive cases !
This is the idea:

For sketching the right angles and round shapes, I made my own compass

Using the paper mold on the plexi…

And using the saw ^^

I need to bend these 3 sheets of Plexiglas. But with the difficult angles and problems of bending, I made the inner side of the actual box (from wood).

Using a chisel, I rounded the piece.

To attach the hard drives, I will use screws with rubbers (rubbers are for later )

That’s ok !
Hard drives will be warm, to cool them, I will be using the cooling box (update before this update) But there needs to be a hole in the plexi so the fresh air can flow good.

A lot of things need to be done, but that’s for the next update

[SXRguyinMA]

lookin nice!

[tomcatt]

An overview of what I have done.

I used the mold to bend the acrylic

Here you can see the Hard disks that will take place inside those hard disk casings.

I also had to decide how much bolts I would use to connect the upper and lower side of the hard drive casings.

I choose 4 bolts, and I used some metals to connect the sides

There will be lights inside, so the orange acrylic will light up.

After this, I also made the aluminum that will cover the orange acrylic

Because my aluminum is out of stock, I began working on the assembling of the hard drives to the case construction.

Currently, that’s it for the hard drive cases. I’m waiting for lights, aluminum and high gloss paint…

My new machine finally arrived.

So I could start making the stuts for the bottom.

I spent several hours making these things.
There are about 72 aluminum stutts and 36 acrylic.
They all need to be glued and filed/sanded. After that, I’m making the holes and then they are finished!

The case so far…

For the assembling of the side panels and front/back panels.
I’ll use these pieces of wood (don’t know how you call them in English)

Now, I don’t have to use tape anymore to assemble the case.

… the stuts are still being glued and they have to dry…

So I took the bottom reservoir at hand, and worked a bit on that.

I used some glue (or something lookalike) and now, there is no more water dropping from the sides

With aluminum foil, the bottom of the reservoir will be something like a mirror

This reservoir has the purpose of being eye-candy. There will be cogs in it that will flow the water around… For spinning the cogs, I’ll use a little motor.

That’s it for now
Feel free to comment or criticize