Project: NLM.

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And some shots threw the window, this part is just AWESOME, and even better IRL.

The grill with the fan behind… Looks sweet to. I’m going to remove the sticker

Lets have some shot:

Thats it. Hope you liked it. Comments are more than welcome! Btw. I’m not done yet, a lot off details need to be worked out. (also important stuff as hdd and pump ^^)

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Update 23 – HDD Part 1 @ Thursday the 10th April 2007.

Intro
Eh, not much time, so as soon I get some more time I’ll mod the harddisk. I want to cut NLM in the hdd cover, and mount some plexi on it. But we don’t want dust in the harddisk right? So I constructed this “hdd dismount boks” inspired from the spiderman case. In the next update there’ll be some actually modding, just hang on

The funny part

This it the harddisk, a 80gb Maxtor disk.

We’ll need a box, the only one I could find was this one.

My legoooo

Now the case’s ready.

Okay, here’s the top.

Then I cutted some plexi, I want to see what I’m doing

Some marking-up.

Some compass-sawing, and I got this nice hole

I need to fill this, I want absolutely NO dust into the case.

That’s good.

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Then back to the case. I need to mount some gloves.

Drilling the holes

Looks good! Cant wait to use it

The silicone’s now dry, and It hold the plexi perfect.

And the finished case.


Let me hear what you think. Another update should be ready next week. Cheers.

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Update 24 – Feets Part 1 - Design @ Friday the 18th April 2007.

Intro
Ey guys! Finally I’ll have some spare time! In this weekend I’ll make the feets! I’ve also been modding on my harddrive, I just want to have everything in the next hdd update (including testing and mounting) so you’ll have to wait a little. Buuut, in the next update I’ll properly bring you a little teaser

Oh back to the feets, I did some sketchup (sorry it’s my first attempt, hope the irl letters will be a little more round )
I have to do 2, one in the front and one in the back. But you’ll see later!

The funny part

The is one of the sides. You can read on the picture, what the holes in top are for.

And here again, just so you can see the letters a little more easy.

This is the other side, as you can see it’s similar to the other side, so you’ll be able to read NLM from both sides

The two black parts will be done in 5-8mm alu (don’t know yet, have to check out the workshop) They are separated by a 5mm thick frosted piece of acryl. It gives a totally thickness on 15-20, and that’s perfect They’ll be about 16-18cm long (don’t know yet, I cant remember the size of the bottom eh)
The plexi will light up, and there be light IN the letters, bet that effect is going to be awesome.

I’ll start on the feets tomorrow, right now I have some English homework to do. Cya later guys

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Update 25 – Feets and psu! @ Thursday the 24th May 2007.

Intro.
Finally I have a new update ready!.
Accidentally I deleted all the pics , So no work in process, only final shots – or actually i have a little more work to do on the feets
I do really like the feets! But damn NLM seems “squared” without the outside tubing.

The funny part

Here’s the atx connector

4-pin connector for the cpu.

And at last, this is how the molex connectors does look.

The orange cablesleeving goes very well with the black!

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But lets take a look at the case:

And with som light:

The last picture, shows how all the plexi edges will look when I add the leds.

What do you think? Comments are welcome!

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Update 26 – Feets part 3 @ Thursday the 31st May2007.

Intro
Wee, ready with another update! Well, first off, I would really like more light to come out from the holes, so need to mount a cathode under, or fix some leds or so. I’ll find out.
Tomorrow i start soldering leds, we need some light in it right? . I think when the fridge’s in again, the tubing make it look less sqared.

The funny part

All right, here we start, a 50*50mm alu piece.

First thing to do on the alu piece: mill down one of the corners.

Then mill down the fist side!

Last part to mill.

That’s what I’m talking about baby.

Then some cutting.

Done and perfect

This is the way the mounting works, hope you can see the idea The holes fit with the holes in the bottom plate.

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Like this.

Then mounting them.

Damn, that’s great.

You’ve seen those pictures before, and i decided to got with the mesh.

The holes got drilled.

What do you think?

Some pictures in dark.

Bad that the fans didn’t gave more light. But I’ll fix that, just wait

Now this is what I need to do on the feets. Give the edge some paint and add these felt guys because we don’t want any scratches in the surface it’s on right`?

Hope you liked it! Cya!

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Update 27 – Hdd finished and new screws @ Thursday the 14st June 2007.

Intro
Finally I’ve got a update ready. Not as huge as I promised, I had some problems with my leds, but now I’ve ordered some new, and they should fix my problem. They should arrive on Monday.

But here I’ll bring you a update about my haddrive, I’ll test it tomorrow, and I hope I still works

Lets take a look:
The funny part

First of all, I had to fix the edges on the mesh.

Here’s the hdd’s top after milling and painting.

And the plexi that’s going to make sure that no dust will go into the harddrive.

Fixing the silicon.

Drilling holes in the case. They are going to hold the harddrive.

And drilling holes in the plexi, we want space for the screwheads right?

Fixing the spacers

And then:

And then the next point in this update, you see those screws? I like to change them.

I’ve just received those with the post.

Amazing right? I think it looks so much better!

Tomorrow I’ll start working on the pump mount, stay tuned :bannana:

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mercerman318 @ thank you

Update 28 – Pump mounting @ Saturday the 16st June 2007.

Intro
Not much to tell about this update. I’ve been working on the pump, I really didn’t feel like I wanted to mod the pumps, so I decided to go the easy way, and create a cover. It turned out really good if you ask me. The whole motherboard will be covered with this kind of mesh, so don’t tell me that it don’t fit into the mod, because it’ll look amazing with the mobo cover. Just stay with me and you will see in a couple of updates.

The funny part

Here’s the pump we’ll be working with, a Laing DCC-plus

After a lot of thoughts I, I did find this solution as the best.

Then getting the mounting pieces ready. 2 washers, 2 home made vibration-killers and 2 of those awesome screws

And then, this is how it looks. BUT I just didn’t like it because the white don’t fit the mod.

Then I draw up the cover I wanted to create.

This is how it turned out.

Lets put it in place:

Damn I LIKE it!

And the some closeups