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    Ok onto the drilling.

    Before I started I thought I should remove the plastic case feet and plastic “accents” to stop them getting scratched and to also keep the case flat.


    Here are the drilled holes.


    I didn’t have a big enough drill bit so I had to grind about another 60mm of with my Dremel like substitute. I also made the holes slightly larger than they had to be to allow the grommets to stretch to allow the Firewire and USB plugs to fit easily.

    I inserted the grommets.


    And with a cable to show you how it will look.


    I will get started on the rest of the cable sleeving tomorrow. Until then…

    Happy Modding.
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    Sorry there hasn't been a post in a while but school started last week and you know what that means...homework. I managed to finish the sleeving yesterday. Enjoy.

    Ok, it’s now time to finish the sleeving.

    First the power and HDD activity LED.

    Well you can see the problem now from this pic; the zip ties don’t fit through the space allocated for the cables. I now have to remove the zip ties, thread the cables through and then re zip he sleeving.


    Much better.


    Both LED’s threaded through.


    Back to the way it was, but now it looks much better.


    The power and reset switches went back in with out any problems at all.


    A picture of all four cables.


    I then sleeved the bundle together leaving enough room at the end of each cable for individual sleeving for more flexibility.


    The remaining viewable cable is now sleeved.


    The cables fit perfectly thought the grommets I just installed.

    Well that’s all I have done at the moment. Next I will make a mesh shroud for one of my dust traps and later on try to make my fan blades UV reactive. Until then…

    Happy Modding.
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    I was gonna get that case but my friends called it a dishwasher
    goodluck on the modding though

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    A dishwasher? Haha I can see what they mean though. Oh well everyone has their opinions. Thanks for the luck haha.
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    I have that case. Please, be careful....
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    yo, could you pleeeeeeeassse link the fotos proper i hate klicking on each pic to get full sized image, 800x600 is not so bad to load

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    Or he can use photobucket they can automatically resize them
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    Sorry about the pictures. I do use photobucket but i will upload the pictures as a larger size from now on.
    Thanks for the +rep TheGreatSatan, I will be careful.
    I should have a small update up later today.
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    Four simple items right? Well yeah they are but that’s not the point. I’m still waiting for orders to come in so I decided to make a cover for the ugly stock NZXT dust trap that’s on the bottom of the case. This won’t have a fan on it due to limited space for the water pump but I just want to conceal it a bit, and anyway the white looks good under the black mesh.

    Ok, I start by marking on the mesh where I want the whole for the screws that will hold this onto the floor of the case.


    Now that I’ve got the mesh market I can drill out the mounting holes.


    Because the mesh came from an old speaker there is about a 1cm over hang where they attached it to the speaker housing. I’m going to cut most of this away but I still want it to cover the side of the dust trap.


    I stuffed up the cutting of the overhang so I cut it off completely to give me a simple square.

    I used a permanent marker to colour in the raw aluminium of the cuts and the sides of the dust trap.

    Note: That’s not raw metal it’s just the camera flash.

    They fit perfectly on each other.


    I won’t show you a picture of it installed because I haven’t got the correct screws for the job yet. I will be using a standard screw cut to size threaded in from the underside of the case and attached with a dome nut on top of the mesh. Until then...

    Happy Modding.
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    Are these pic sizes ok? I think they are a little too big. This is 800x600, I can do the size smaller (640x480) if it suites you better.
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