CM Centurion 5 Mod - Untitled so far

[SXRguyinMA]

LOL! or pick up one of those solder-suckers from radio shack for cheap

[billygoat333]

Just use a straw and suck real fast... lmfao, please dont... that would be horrible.
I love the build so far. Awesome job.

Thanks! Yeah... I don't want to die, or go loony!

I haven't gotten any work on this because every day off I have had it RAINS. grrr. This paint needs to get finished already! lol

[Espie79]

Looks great so far. Are you going to cut out your own acrylic for the window or do you have a kit that will fit?

[billygoat333]

Looks great so far. Are you going to cut out your own acrylic for the window or do you have a kit that will fit?

Thanks for looking! I will be cutting my own acrylic for this.

[billygoat333]

chips in the paint

This is the cap that died in my power supply:

Is this a good replacement?
http://parts.digikey.com/1/parts/509...s2gp561ea.html

[xr4man]

yeah, that should do as a replacement.

unfortunately, it looks like you pulled the plating out of the through hole in the circuit board. you can see it stuck to the left leg of the cap in your picture. that means you no longer have a connection from the top layer to the bottom layer of the circuit board for the power supply. so i'm guessing that even if you replace the cap, the power supply probably won't work unless you add some jumper wires to go from the leg on teh cap to where ever the original traces went to.

[billygoat333]

Uh oh... don't tell me that...

[billygoat333]

Looking at the capacitor, yes it looks like I have some copper on the lead still stuck to it. I thought I had all the solder off, apparently not I am a n00b when it comes to electronics, lol I am learning though.

I will see if I can rig something up to where this thing still works, I think I might just order a new PSU when funds aren't quite so tight.

(Have to buy a new car, and fund another Vegas trip!)

[xr4man]

don't feel bad. desoldering is way more difficult than soldering. even someone like me that has been doing it for almost 30 years still damages boards like that from time to time. although usually it's on old dead boards that i am cannibalizing for parts so it usually doesn't matter.

[billygoat333]

Just bought a 80 dollar cheapass 700w rosewill PSU for 30 bucks... hopefully that will tide me over until I can get my Kingwin up and running again. I also got an Antec Sonata case (free) to temporarily house my PC until this mod is done. Can't beat it!

The case is nice, but won't be as nice as my mod (so I keep telling myself, lol) once it is done.