That sucks with the CPU cooler. That's a lot of money to lose.
That sucks with the CPU cooler. That's a lot of money to lose.
Thanks Fuganater was riekmaharg2 idea to do a copper ring, makes it a lot less cluttered from wires.
I'll hopefully have it up & running tomorrow so if I do I'll make a video & get some pictures of it.
Thanks msmrx57, hopefully tomorrow.
I got unlucky with the cooler but something better will happen now.
It is my fault though for thinking I could correct it instead of sending it back for a replacement, I could have stopped after I got it to a basic level of being flat but pushed too far to have a go at making it all flat, I'm sure it could still be used though after patching the holes up, it'll just be 2 3rds of the performance it should have been but I do have a hunch it will perform as good as one fresh out of the box & maybe even better with it being truly flat now but would have been sweet to see how good it would have been with no damaged heat pipes & a flat base.
my 1st scratch case made july 2008 (finding my feet)
Air Cube prototype (fin jan 2009) (still finding my feet)
Air Cube v2 now with added cpc stack (fin aug 2010) (getting better)
Project Stealthlow (fin sep 2011) (much improvement)
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Narrowed down from 120 lol reason for a couple of shots of each angle is to show how the light is shifting around.
Liquid electrical tape, this stuff is straight from world of goo.
Spindicator & all the assembly soldered together at last.
I really should have used a fine brush instead of the big blompy one attached to the lid, the back of the housing ended up a heck of a mess but it's all insulated so I'm OK with that.
It got worse lol.
Moment of truth & the spindicator spins but 1 of the LED's doesn't seem to be working, 11 o clock no worky but because of the diffusion I can't tell.
Testing all the coloured discs before mounting it in the case.
Mounted & went with the light green disc.
Some of the colours are just too powerful, yellow & dark green, what I think this needs is possibly a bit of tinting film adding to tone it down a touch possibly & instead of a 1mm acrylic padding disc I should replace it with an aluminium 1 with a pattern in it, maybe a very thin spiral, I'll do a few different ones, also bear in mind this is just nowhere near as good as it looks to the eye, in the dark there is a nice glow on the panels & the only way I can capture that is with the camera on a higher exposure which makes the marble look far too bright but the marble looks like how it does where the glow isn't captured but to the eye you see both nicely.
And a video, not good quality but it shows it a bit better than static images.
my 1st scratch case made july 2008 (finding my feet)
Air Cube prototype (fin jan 2009) (still finding my feet)
Air Cube v2 now with added cpc stack (fin aug 2010) (getting better)
Project Stealthlow (fin sep 2011) (much improvement)
Lean and Green - modular dual PC scratch build - Paused
Midlag Crisis
That first one makes the marble look as if it's on fire.
OMG that is so freaking sick!
Hopefully the assembly won't start any when it's all together.
Thanks Fuganater
Made a couple more videos with different colours, the violet & blue aren't coming out right though on my kodak, the colours look weird.
my 1st scratch case made july 2008 (finding my feet)
Air Cube prototype (fin jan 2009) (still finding my feet)
Air Cube v2 now with added cpc stack (fin aug 2010) (getting better)
Project Stealthlow (fin sep 2011) (much improvement)
Lean and Green - modular dual PC scratch build - Paused
Midlag Crisis
A good productive evening, night & day.
I decided to tackle the stand, already printed the mounting points so just had to cut them from the sticker paper & carefully place in the right spots.
Gone back to spot drilling since the new drill press is nice & love the table height adjustment, goes up & down by turning a crank but you do need to tighten it up so it's square but wow it is far better than my previous rock bottom budget bench drills.
Also bought a cross vice at the same time as the drill press, it is extremely useful.
Tapping.
Mounting, I used 4 12mm m3 countersunk screws on both sides.
More guide templates which I had to redesign because I had no 3mm 20mm flat bar & only 6mm.
The depth setting on the drill press, I'd have probably screwed up without it.
To keep fixings hidden I decided to file angles that the flat bars fit on to.
These are the flat bars but didn't take any pictures of the filing process but I had to make them match the angles on the big panels.
And extra support added.
Few shots before I get on with the HTPC.
Need a rest now but I am on a mission to get this completed before December, want to play Hitman & assassins creed 3 on this rig.
my 1st scratch case made july 2008 (finding my feet)
Air Cube prototype (fin jan 2009) (still finding my feet)
Air Cube v2 now with added cpc stack (fin aug 2010) (getting better)
Project Stealthlow (fin sep 2011) (much improvement)
Lean and Green - modular dual PC scratch build - Paused
Midlag Crisis
That is a beautiful chunk of metal right there! I could never tackle that. +rep for the progress!
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That is a drool worthy drill press.... oh and the build is coming along nicely too