Project Clockwork vII

[The boy 4rm oz]

If you are keeping the heatsinks and all that uncovered then you shouldn't have a problem with heat. You could even cover up the heatsinks and have 40 or 60mm fans built into the cover with a rustified cog grill . The downside of this is that you do get slightly more noise and the cover has to be slightly thicker.

Check out Defyant's work, he made a mobo cover for practically every mod lol.

[Oneslowz28]

As long as you find a POT rated at 120 volts or so and a few amps then it should work fine to drop the voltage. I saw a rotary dimmer at Homedepot the other week for like $7 IIRC.

[gaz_the_chav]

This is looking great! Looking forward to the finsished thing.

-gaz

[Acey]

*low whistle* grats on the front page.. there seems to be more electronics than an E&E retard like me can handle here xD

[Frenkie]

Looks really great ! kuddoos and rep +1

[blueonblack]

Quick update, I got the holes cut for the newly bottom-mounted PSU:

And the lovely 1000-watt monster in place with its wires tucked neatly away out of sight. (The purpose of the plexi taped to the top of the PSU will come clear in time.)

I made a cover for it from three sheets of plexi and gave it the first step of the rust treatment.

Got some small angle iron and gave it the real rust treatment. I love the way this stuff looks!

And again with some holes carefully measured and drilled:

I don't like the smooth look of the angle iron, so here we have a brass spiral nail with convenient round head:

I took a bunch of these and drove them into a board in rows. Obviously I can't have any shiny brass in here, so I hit them with a mapp gas torch until they were glowing.

To get the shine off of the heads:

Not so shiny now, are ya??


Not content with mistreating them like this, I cut their heads off.

Gruesome, ain't it?



But it was for a good cause. I think stage 1 of the PSU cover came out very well:

I know, I am going to have to raise the whole machine up a little bit to allow the PSU to breathe. I'm still pondering something that will serve as feet.


Next update may be a while coming, but it will be worth it.

Opinions?

[SXRguyinMA]

that came out awesome! +rep

[billygoat333]

wow thats sweet! lovin the rust look! it came out really good

[The boy 4rm oz]

The PSU looks amazing, fantastic work mate, can't wait for more .

[Mach]

Awesome blue! Coming together fantastically. Watching...
On the bottom, what if you set it up like a boiler with a flickering flame effect? The entire case would be lifted up 2 inches or so and vertical slots cut all the way around.