Re: TRIBALOVERKILL, "Blackout" Updated--> 06/24/05
Not really an update but whatever,... more like planning.
Jun-06-2007
First. Look at this. I pulled it off the lian-li. It's a thread-sert of some kind. It made of steel and it's only comprised of one piece. Not like standard thread-serts that start off as one piece and end up as two. Regular thread-serts expands around the hole holding it in place. Also,.. regular thread-serts have a face? on one side and the expanded body on the other side. This thing in the pic does not expand around the hole. It doesnt even pass completely through the hole! It's flush as hell on one side and on the other side is where this thing is. It overal height is like half, maybe less then half the height of a regular thread-sert. Its has areas to it,... a tiny tube like thing on top. This is what goes inside your holes. Then there is the portion with these triangular teeth that get pressed into the aluminum around your holes. This keeps it from spinning as you screw in your bolt. Then theres the portion that rest against the aluminum, the main body I guess you could call it. This is is slick as hell! It's neat and clean looking when installed and when it is installed,... it's not like this thing is going anywhere either! I had to use pliers to rip it out! I destroy the first one I tried pulling out. When I released that it was only pressed in I just pulled really hard and out it came. You guyz have to help me find these! I want them. I cant find them anywhere. I am thinking about emailing lian-li and asking them if they could tell me. I am pretty sure the holes are heated before these thigns are pressed in. So the holes expands a bit. Makes it easier to get it in. Once it's in the hole cools and shrinks around it holding it lieka champ. Not sure.
Here's the flush side. You see the silver holes there. Thats all there is on this side of the hole. It's friggin awesome! Help me find out what they are specifically called, who makes them, and whre to get them. I want these.
Anyways,... here's my PSU hole I cut way back in the day. I am mapping out the holes to mount the psu mounting plate.
You see the silver cot just under the wheel? Wheel here what that is,... I had to drill two holes right under the mobo tray. I couldnt get the drill in there to drill those out. So what I did was,... I put some wood under the case and use a pointy center punch or nail and kept whacking the will be holes from the inside of the case punching a hole as deep as I could get it. once I got deep enough, I turned the case over so I could see the botom of the case. I fould the little dome like dents I made and used a dremel cut-off wheel and lightly ground away the dent until I could see the tiny hole I made from puching from the inside. I used this as my pilot hole to drill from the outside. Worked great.
Here's the psu plate in place.
Yea yea yea yeaaaa.
Little psu plate arm thingies.
The new psu on the plate. It's an OCZ 600watt something something something. What a pain to get out. They make em so you cant get them out or atleast easily.
Pump tower in place. Sizing things up so I know what I can and cant do,...
Its amazing how tight everything is but still,... it all clears. The reall amazing part is that I planned it to be like this. Carefull planning pays off guyz. When it works,... what a feeling!
Look at that,... beautiful!
God I just love the overlapping of hardware like that. it's like a system. Designed to work just like that. So cool.
I have a pretty good idea of what im going to do here,... there are still some thing I have to figure out.
Underside of psu plate. I going to make a large version of the fan box underside grill to put here. I think its going to look HOT.
Here's some planning for ya,... 3 major pieces that I will be starting very soon. Two grills and a fan shroud plate. A lot more to plan though
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