Project: LEXA

[The boy 4rm oz]

Time to continue on from yesterday's post.

Today I finished my HDD bay cover and pretty much finished mounting all my other plastic pieces. Here we go.

Ok so here we have the piece of plastic that is my HDD bay cover (all sanded, polished and drilled):

Here is the piece of mesh I cut to cover the gap in the plexi, I have painted it black (from original silver) and have cut a hole to allow power and SATA cable to pass through. A tip for people using a jigsaw to cut mesh, don't. The teeth on the blade get stuck in the mesh holes and will bend and warp your mesh, believe me, I had to flatten my piece of mesh out after trying this way. I ended up using the cutting disk attachment for me rotary tool, worked perfectly, no warping, just a hell of a lot of sparks lol .
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Here's a random picture of the screws/bolts and nuts I will use to mount this piece:

I will be attaching this piece by using 8 bolts with 2 nuts and a spacer per bolt. As you will see in this picture there is only 4 (left hand side) bolts set up. This is because I can't insert the other 4 without taking the front of the case off and I am not ready to do so at the moment.
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The plastic and the mesh before the installation of the mesh:

The completed panel, looks quite good I think :

Time for the installation of the panel.
Spacers installed on the bolts:

HDD cover installed:

I front on pic (looking through case window):

A pic looking through the plexi to my HDD:

And finally a picture of the panel removed and under UV light:

I also got stuck into mounting the other pieces of plastic.
Here is the rear cover for the CD drives:

And here is the inside floppy bay cover and also the inside HDD cover (big gap is for mesh):

I also mounted one of my 10cm UV CCFL's to the case support bar, fits perfectly, well after some grinding of the mounting blocks anyway :

Sorry that first pic is smaller, must have uploaded it wrong lol. Also you may notice that the inside CD drive cover looks crooked, that is just the hole cut in the plexi, you wont notice it when it's covered with mesh.
Well that's all for today, may be some more tomorrow but I doubt it, I have to right a whole essay that is due Thursday (only a draft) lol . Until then...

Happy Modding.

[Darth Dad]

I like the thumb screws for the PCI slots. That is good idea!

[The boy 4rm oz]

Thanks, I like them to. As I said before I am using black ones to mount my PSU and 80mm radiator.

[The boy 4rm oz]

Sorry for the lack of posts guys. I have been doing a lot of work after school over the last week but it is minor work, not worth the pics. I have mounted the plastic on the inside of the case for the rest of the HDD bay and have almost completed the CD drive rear cover.
You will have pics as soon as I finish (need more screws first lol). Until then...

Happy Modding.

EDIT: haha post count was 1234 lol

[The boy 4rm oz]

Ok guys, I finally have a worthy update for you. Sorry it has taken so long but we have had some real heat here in Australia (above 30*c for the past 2 weeks) and it has been too hard to work in the heat in our shed.

Ok, so just like the HDD cover I have completed the other side of the HDD cover plus the Disk Drive covers.
Here are the pics of the Disk Drive covers installed and finished:

I know in the second pic the cuts look really crooked but they aren't...well mabye a little but not enough to notice, it's just the picture.

Here is the other part of the HDD bay:

As with the Disk Drive cover the cuts aren't crooked, it's just the picture.

And to cap it all off here is a picture of all the bay covers installed so you can see what it's all gonna look like when it's done.
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To cap off this post I am going to give you a progress report, well I'll show you a progress report . What best way to report progress but with pictures lol.
Here is my case so far with everything installed how it will be.
Side on:

PSU cover, support bar and radiator:

Disk Drive cover:

PCI slots and radiator:

Danger Den fill port:

It has come to my attention that I may need another radiator in my system so I intend to see if I can get a Black Ice Stealth 240mm radiator to mount on the under side of my case. Looks about time I got myself a sponsor . Well that's all for now, hope to have some more updates later this week before exams next week. Until then...

Happy Modding.

[psychowit]

Oe pretty!

[The boy 4rm oz]

Thanks mate, I try my best lol.

[p0Pe]

nice everybody likes green acrylic xD.. sweet thing that you wont be able to see the whole back of dvd-drives etc, nice detail

+rep beacuse i never thought of that lol

[simon275]

Yeah it is warm here in Sydney to. I love what you have done with the green plexi bits and the mesh. +rep

[The boy 4rm oz]

Thanks for your comments and +rep. There is a lot more plexi work to come. The whole drive bays will be covered with the same mesh and plastic design. Glad you all like it.