Ratputer: The Anti-Bling.

[FPMachine]

I hope this turns out. cool little mod. Will be interesting to see the cracking you were talking about.

[Bucko]

Update on the Ratputer.
I've decided to can the Gateway case and use the Dell Poweredge Server case I bought. It will be the new Ratputer, but will still use the Gateway front panel with the skull.
I'm going to turn the case sideways and make the side the new "front". The extra width of the sever case will make that easy to do.

I'm at work at the moment, so I'll take a few pics of the bare chassis when I get home and do some dodgy, I mean high quality, MS Paint work to show my idea.

Will be interesting to see the cracking you were talking about.

My camera doesn't have a macro mode, so it's hard to get a good picture of it. It's easy to see in the flesh though.

[Bucko]

As promised, a few pics.

First a couple of views of the naked case:

Next a view from the side that will become the front.
First naked:

Then with the cover on and the Ratputer face place sitting on it to give you a rough idea of where the drive placement is going to be:

The current face plate will be trimmed and reshaped a bit, before being fixed in place and more bondo applied.

I'll cut a window in the side too, and seeing as the motherboard can't screw straight in, it is going to be mounted so the I/O panel and the PCI slots are actually inside the case. I haven't decided whether they will go upwards and I remove the top for access, or if the will go forwards to the panel on the right.

The current front and rear will get new covers made and I'll have some 120mm fans mounted at each end to get a good cross flow ventilation happening.

I'm really liking how much spacew I'll have to play with. It's making some decisions harder just because I have so much choice on how and where to mount everything.

[Drew]

Strange concept, be interesting to see how this comes out.

Might be the start of a new trend.

[Bucko]

The window I would make so it looked like it had just rusted out.

So also as promised, some MS paint work to show my idea.

[Drew]

Proper anti-bling, like it dude.

[Bucko]

I went and bought another iCute case the same as the on in my No Idea except without the window in the side, but is does have the bloody big fan still.

The girl at the PC shop just shook her head when I said I was going to cut up the case and again didn't believe I could take it home on the bike.

Here it is strapped to the bike along with a shelving unit I bought and a bag full of bits from the Hardware store:

And here is the case before being attacked with a drill:

I'm using it for the MoBo tray and the full height drive bays. Should be perfect for what I want with a little modding.

[Bucko]

After attacking the case with a drill and removing a lot of rivets, I was left with the back panel and MoBo tray as one part and the drive bays, top and bottom as another part.

Here's the back panel and MoBo tray mocked up in the Dell case. You'll notice I removed some more bits from the inside of the Dell by drilling out rivets.

Here's the remains of the drive bays and top and bottom on their own:

I will mount it on the end of the server case as it is the EXACT height I need.
I took a couple of mock up pics by turning the case on it's side so I could sit the drive bays in place.

Now I have it mocked up and a better idea of how I want to do it, I'll attack with the angle grinder, jigsaw and Dremel over the next few days. It's no longer gonna be quite like my MS Paint work I did before.

[simon275]

Lol you sure you got enough space there?

[Bucko]

Why? You think I need more? :p