The Ultimate 7" LCD mod

[Ali_2k]

*shrugs*

[Mec]

Great plans :-)
Check this:
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[Ali_2k]

Wow, my god it has been a while, but here it is, finally some progress on my LCD mod! Ive altered my plans for the design and decided to put it on the front. So i picked up my dremel, grabbed a cutting disk and went for it! So here we go, back on track and moddin' it hawt!! Keep Tuned!

Heres the front plate cut off, phear the dremel!

The cleaned up cut out.

Partially mounted with tape! :grin: Will use filler and make a complete clean face

Heres a shot of the side panel bolts - superglue ftw!

The other side

Completed bolts.

[LiTHiUM0XiD3]

i was gunna do something like this..... but there was one small problem........
I STEPPED ON THE LCD SCREEN!!!
;(

[.Maleficus.]

i was gunna do something like this..... but there was one small problem........
I STEPPED ON THE LCD SCREEN!!!
;(

LOL! erm... I mean, I'm sorry.

[chaksq]

Ali: you did a mint job on that connector mount. how come you arent mounting the board internally? im sure with a soldering iron, you could possibly re-route the composite connector off your graphics card to the lcd, so that you dont have a messy cable on the back.

hell, if you had some car dent filler, you could desolder the connector completely, then fill in where it went. would look tight.

Seems like a good idea but I can see where someone would not want to mess with a new (Not to mention expensive) video card. For keeping limited cables I suggest making your own super short cable only as long as needed to cross between the two connectors. Thats just my $.02

Overall I think the case looks great!

[DaveW]

*shrugs*

Lol...best response ever.

Looking good dude, +Rep for the worklog so far, although your photos could be sharper. Try sitting the camera on something, or using a tripod, if possible.

Photos are a good size though, coming along well.

-Dave

[Ali_2k]

Thanks for the support guys, im just glad im finally pushing this along

and also, sorry for the fuzzy pics just grabbed em with my phone camera

Anyways, im going to cut some more stuff this evening will get some images up by tonight hopefully

[Ali_2k]

Hey again guys, Little bit of an update here, some nice pics too

First job was to enable the screen to sit as far back against the front of the chassis as possible, In order to do this, I had to cut out a large section of a alu panel that supports the front ports:

I removed the button panel, will do something interesting with this later xD

Now I had a clean space to fit the screen I needed a solution to secure the screen to the chassis. So the screen is supported by something solid, not the plastic bezel.

A perfect fit!

Here on the back you can see the rear of the screen, it looks like its come from a factory!

In order for teh bezel to fit snug around the screen, I had to dremel out some grooves for little notches on the screen:

This shows the power/video input board (part of the screen setup) Its just hanging here atm, so I need to develop a bracket to keep it secure:

And check this out! The screen (for some reason) hangs at a slant, which you may think sucks.. BUT it cuts out virtually all light reflections, which imo is awesome!

Stay Tuned for more after I get back from Spain - I will fill up all the gaps and make it look like a single front panel - so hawt!

[Commando]

Absolutely Wicked... +Rep