Project: LEXA

[The boy 4rm oz]

They are great things Dremels but make sure you don't make the same mistake I did, knock offs are crap, it's a genuine Dremel or it's nuthn.

A small update on my 240mm radiator. I called the retailer today but couldn't get through. I will try again tomorrow.

[The boy 4rm oz]

Ok time for a picture update. Officially all oh my schooling for this year has finished so after school I got right into modding.

I started by removing my plastic panels and dismantled my drive bays.
Here is a picture of the process.
Un-riveted:

Dismantled:

From here I removed the front intake fan housing because I needed to do a bit of work on it.
Here is the removed housing:

Due to me using a 3-pin power header on this fan I decided to drill a hole in the housing to make the routing of the cables easier.
Here is the fan (just a stock Cooler Master one my friend gave me):

And because I had some rubber grommets laying around I thought I may use one.
Pic of the housing and grommet:

Now to find the correct drill bit. This one fits perfectly on the inside of the grommet so I will use this as a base and step up the bit size if need be.
Pic of the drill bit and grommet:

Hole drilled (I needed to go a few bits larger for the correct hole size):

Grommet installed, perfect fit:

Now to have a look with the fan installed:

Fits perfectly and makes cable routing just a little bit easier.

On to the painting.
First coat of primer:

And the final coat of black with the grommet installed:

Looks pretty good if I don't say so myself.

That's it for today, with this part of the case dismantled I can finally finish the rest of my plastic mounting, tomorrow perhaps. Until then...

Happy Modding.

[The boy 4rm oz]

Well guys I am having a hell of a time trying to contact the place that sells the HW Labs radiators here in Australia. Every time I call the phone just rings out and they aren't returning my emails. I figure they may be on holidays or moving store, they may even have closed down.

Well enough of the sad stuff, on to the modding .

I completed my disk drive cover today and I am quite proud of how it turned out, nothing went wrong haha.
Here is the piece of plastic I started with, I had already cut it to size and just had to add indents for rivets and extrusions on the case.
Here is a pic:

Same piece of plastic but with the protective plastic removed:

Pay no attention to the top left corner of the plexi, I slipped with the Dremel but it's ok, this part is covered by the top of the case anyway.
Now installed on to the window side of the drive bays:

It fits perfectly.
Now here is the support bar:

Plenty of room.

While I was doing this I also drilled a hole for the HDD thermal sensor and of course it isn't complete with out a nice rubber grommet.
Here is the hole (middle top, under the slit):

And now with the grommet installed:

Now doesn't that look much better.

Well that's all for now. I needed to keep myself occupied today, I have my driving test tomorrow and I am a bit nervous lol. Hopefully tomorrow arvo I can get the window side floppy bay cover installed. Until then...

Happy Modding.

[p0Pe]

looking good!

[Xperiment]

Great work, looks much better than bare metal.

Good luck with the driving test

[The boy 4rm oz]

Thanks mate. The test is at 8am so I gotta get up early lol. Hope I pass though.

[TEAMIKKE]

Should be no problem if you are just as good as with modding

[The boy 4rm oz]

Thanks all. I have half an hour until my test so wish me luck .

[billygoat333]

good luck? hope ya did good sorry bout the late good luck like the case so far.

[The boy 4rm oz]

Well the good news is I passed yay lol, got 91% out of a needed 80%. I did some more work today and have taken more pics but I won't upload them until tomorrow.