Project: Frankenstripe

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Currently curing. I'm gonna let it sit for about an hour. Gives me enough time to tear apart the skeleton so I can chop away on it as well.

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It's raining outside. Hopefully it's just a quick shower.

Sanded, ready for layer two. I'll cover up the whole damn thing this go around so I can change it from a chunk of PVC stuck in a front panel to something that looks halfway cool.

Turns out all that was holding the mobo in was 1 tiny screw. So it's now gutted, and ready for:

More dremel action. And no, I haven't upgraded yet like I want to. Food and gas are a bit more important than my modding tools.

That poor poor battery.

I'm getting the feeling that's all for today.

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So the lil storm passed and I got back outside before sundown. Got some shaping done as well, but I still have lots left it seems. Might see what happens with the dremel tomorrow for part of it.

Probably won't be any picture updates till Sunday or Monday. The better half is stealing the camera so her mom can take some pictures of her getting her wedding dress fitted. May 27th can't get here fast enough.

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Slowly coming together. Lots of shaping to do. And I'm gonna strip all the bondo off the raised panel above the hole, cut out the old on/off switch area and rebondo.

Sorry for the lack of updates, but real life took over. Hopefully I'll get some work done on this sometime this week. Also, I might upload a tutorial on a different part of this mod that hasn't been posted yet--once I get the work done (in MSPaint no less! ), I'll post it.

[intergalacticman]

wow, ive been off these forums for like 2 weeks, (my runescape addiction came back, the horror!!) anyways, your fan mount is quite the ingenious one, ive always wanted to experiment with PVC tubing ,and this is quite helpful to me.

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wow, ive been off these forums for like 2 weeks, (my runescape addiction came back, the horror!!) anyways, your fan mount is quite the ingenious one, ive always wanted to experiment with PVC tubing ,and this is quite helpful to me.

It's a very time consuming process, and time is something that I have little of at the moment.

Glad you like the work, but I can't claim credit for it. Search around for some of defyant's worklogs--you'll be getting ideas left and right, I promise.

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Since I have hated this case since day 1, and since I now have access to other cases, this project, in it's current state, is going to get scrapped and restarted from scratch.

Two things that are going to stay the same in Mach 2:

*The paintjob
*The blowhole

Some things will be added, others will be changed completely.

The components from 'Blue' (main machine) are going to reside in Frankenstripe Mach 2 as well. The PIII mobo from Mach 1 will temporarily reside in the filing cabinet mod, which might or might not become a freestanding system of its own.

The window placement and the window itself will be moved to a more logical place. I think you guys will approve of what I've got in store for that. It is going to be quite original, as I don't think anyone else has ever thought of putting one of these babies into the side of a case. Since I'm not ready to let the cat out of the bag just yet, I will leave you all with an ambiguous clue:

Everything will be much clearer in a couple of weeks, the detail of which might astound you!

[Drew]

New direction?

Don't ya just hate it when that happens?

But kudos for the Defyant Blow hole.

I love that guys stuff.

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This mod took on a life of it's own a long time ago.

Actually, I love it when that happens.

[psychowit]

lookin good