Project: Alien Hospital

[The boy 4rm oz]

Fantastic news ferry. I can't wait to see more of this mod.

[Eclecticos]

Welcome back man! Long time no see.
I've been waiting for an update on this one for a while.
Can't wait to see what you have to show us.

[_ferry_]

Between this update and the previous one is a large gap of time, i know I worked on project Cosmod, and various other non-casemodding related projects. Like maintainance on my bicycles, work, and some electronic projects.

Anyway, i picked up the work on this project, but now on a different part: The operation table itself. I have a lot of work done on the monitor/instument panel part, but to finish it, the computer itself must be finished, since ther are a lot of connections from the pc to the monitor part (USB, VGA, rs232, power and signals for read out or controlling lights and cooling.

The base exist of a aluminium box, with the table on top. The table will be 40x80cm width, the box is 35x40cm and 32 cm in height. Just enough to fit a standing motherboard.

On each corner i'll fit such a aluminium profile. I first planned just the normal aluminium profiles, but these look better. I still use those standard profiles, but they're on the inside of the case now for strength.

cutting out another 2 of them

4 of them 2 are polished, 2 are sanded.

My plan is to have a little gap between the case and corner, giving some extra depth. Maybe some led's will fit there.

Another great part, a air grill which can be closed.

And here i was measuring where to put the 2 radiators. Guess 2 of them are enough for cooling the system.

Pointing out where to fit it.


Demonstration of the grill. I had to do some of it by hand since i don't have the circuit yet to rotate the motor in 2 directions, but the idea is clear, isn't it?

Fitted in the case. Note the HDD-size screws. Those will be replaced later with nice looking m3 bolts+nuts, i ordered them this week.

Working on the radiators and fans. I like the grills because they are shiny, but i'll try to build something myself based on RVS wire. A more open design with aluminium fans i guess.

I wanted to add a logo. On top a sheet of polished aluminium with a hole cutted out. Behind that cut-out the black aluminium with a engraved or sandblasted logo.

The planned position for the logo

[The boy 4rm oz]

This is looking seriously sweet mate. Well worth the wait.

[985323]

looking great, love the grill

[Ebio Amisi]

one of the most talented mods i have ever seen, sir, your are astounding

[DonT-FeaR]

i like....need update again

[phen0m]

Awesome. I can't wait to see the finished mod.
So far, its pretty schhweeeeet

[Kumo]

Long time since my last post... Very nice _Ferry_, as usual.

[_ferry_]

Thanks guys good to hear you still like it

I continued with the logo, instead of engraving i went to cutting them out. Thanks for the designer of these 360 degrees cutting saws, you can even cut these small letters with the greatest precision.

But it took about half an hour to get it like this, and more time to cut away the remaining aluminum and sand it a little bit.

After a little polishing fitting the stuff on the case. It's ain't easy to get 6 holes all straight trough 4 layers of aluminum. But there's some toleration.

New M3 bolts and nuts and washers arrived. Been looking around that webshop for ages to find RVS M3 nuts, but all they had was countersunk, well, whatever, you ain't gonna see them anyway.

Let's screw this stuff Mounted the aluminium corner.

Previously the case was just 4 walls, without a bottom. Let's change that.

In the bottom plate i made 4 small gaps, the aluminum profiles will fit there. In fact the bottom is hanging in those 4 profiles, just a few mm above my desk. I think some polished aluminum behind the bolts will look better than just direct on the case.

And a overall shot.