Project : BossFX-57

oddly enough funny you mention Black and yellow, though I was not thinking a car theme.

cause I wanted to do blue and white ,but blue is to common in MOdded PC's now.

Test mounted the PS with the spacers in place so that the fan fit properly, yay!!! Also looke d pretty cool too! ;)

http://home.comcast.net/~craig.tate/Boss/power1.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~craig.tate/Boss/power2.jpg



Having to rethink the power cabling.

Not getting rid of it, but I underestimated the space left after the power supply and the optical drive were added in (plus the drop of the cieling due to the blow hole fan firing in to the scoop...)

So... I have to relocate the cable attachments. And since I will not have anything located in the lower 5.25 bays, I'm going to take 2 of them and build a minimalist drive bay attachment (think like a bay cover for the front bezel, except it will face the back) 2 bays used space. I'll cut a hole into the side of the 2 lower 5.25 bays and feed the power cables through that. Solder them on, and have my plug panel facing out into the open area, and cables will be run from there to their respective devices.

This placement will also put the mobo 4pin Molex (next to the PCI-E slots) and the 4 pin AUX connector within easy reach and it should proove to be an entertaining cable path!


http://home.comcast.net/~craig.tate/Boss/power3.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~craig.tate/Boss/power4.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~craig.tate/Boss/power5.jpg

Taking a page from Lupine, I was soo happy with the cabling redirection, I think I'll use a similar technique here. Except this time, the ATX motherboard power bundle will stay out here and not get fed through.
http://home.comcast.net/~craig.tate/Boss/power7.jpg


The individual bundles ranked according to where they are on the cable hole of the power supply. I tried to back trace all of the cables and order the various bundles according to whether or not they returned to the top or the bottom of the bundle @ the power supply.
http://home.comcast.net/~craig.tate/Boss/power8.jpg


Looming on the cables and routed back to the hole. I'm not trying to disguise anything here. I wanted it to have a "piped" feel to it. Maybe sparkplug wires, or the vacuum tubing that is all under the hood.
http://home.comcast.net/~craig.tate/Boss/power9.jpg


And the cascade of cables on the back side of the motherboard.
http://home.comcast.net/~craig.tate/Boss/power10.jpg


some will be kept as is, and others will be butchered and reallocated to other power needs.

Trying to get some paint to dry tonight so that I can get some of the long "time" items done while I grab a bit of shut eye in a bit.

1st thing that I knew I had to get done tonight was the front bezel.
http://home.comcast.net/~craig.tate/Boss/bezel5.jpg

When I pulled the tape, I realized that the left side was not masked properly. Missed it on the pre-paint inspection. Now I have to re-mask the grey/black area, and paint this stripe, without creating a run... grrr....
Oh well...

Other than that, and a few oversprays that hit the tops of the grey areas from behind (another numbskull moment, I masked for paint from the front... totally did not cover the holes for paint coming from the back side! *headsmack smiley* )
http://home.comcast.net/~craig.tate/Boss/bezel6.jpg

Both of these should be easily fixable. ;)

Paint is fixed and drying. Next id to get the bottomw of the top manel with the scoop and paint it gloss black (to match with the powdercoating of the frame.
http://home.comcast.net/~craig.tate/Boss/bezel7.jpg



My cable interface bracket.
http://home.comcast.net/~craig.tate/Boss/bracket1.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~craig.tate/Boss/bracket2.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~craig.tate/Boss/bracket3.jpg

I've cut a hole behind this bracket that faces the back side of the case, and fed the wires through that hole. I'll then clip the power cables and attach them to the recepticles that will be mounted in the bracket.

Back out to the garage!

Lunch to Dinner pics...

Underside of the scoop. (this is actually painted now)
http://home.comcast.net/~craig.tate/Boss/scoop19.jpg


Custom feet created for this computer. Start with a acrylic block, put it on a spindle, and put a file to it! I did not want round, but square did not sit with the curves that are predominant in the striping and window. So, I blended them! ;) I plan on covering these with the chrome vinyl.
http://home.comcast.net/~craig.tate/Boss/feet1.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~craig.tate/Boss/feet2.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~craig.tate/Boss/feet3.jpg


Meteor light controllers: (before and after... no pansy *** blue going in here!)
http://home.comcast.net/~craig.tate/Boss/meteor1.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~craig.tate/Boss/meteor2.jpg


The wall that will have the UV light firing though it's edge:
http://home.comcast.net/~craig.tate/Boss/side_wall.jpg

getting much closer to full realization!

http://home.comcast.net/~craig.tate/...de_stripe3.jpg

I have a little bit of touchup to do to the front Bezel, and I'm redux'ing my power lines that were already done. My question in the General Modding (I think) forum will explain for my panic attack and redux...

I'm not adding in additional jacks to attempt to handle the proper grounding. The only 2 that will not have all of their ground lines are the SATA connector (which will have a optical drive and an older SATA drive) and the P4 AUX connector (12v x2, Ground x1 <normally 2>).

;)

This was the last update I made before submission to Coolermaster...
I had been up for 36 hours straight. There was a LOT of problems that happened in the final push, corners that had to be cut, and ideas that had to be pulled and delayed. It was *exhausting*...
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I am tired, exhausted, and glad this thing is over...
;)

We'll see what the others brought to the table.

http://home.comcast.net/~craig.tate/Boss/CM_Final5.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~craig.tate/Boss/CM_Final6.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~craig.tate/Boss/CM_Final7.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~craig.tate/Boss/CM_Final10.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~craig.tate/Boss/CM_Final11.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~craig.tate/Boss/CM_Final12.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~craig.tate/Boss/CM_Final13.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~craig.tate/Boss/CM_Final16.jpg

I'll talk more about the events of today... later. Right now, I can feel my energy leaking out my feet... ;)

Nighty night all!

That's amazing man, major kudos. :D

Real Sweet!! I wish you could have converted some kind of RC Wheels for the Feet. Something with nice rims on them..

Good Job TD...

Well... that concievably *could* still happen, seeing as I am not formally *done* with this thing... ;)

Good idea!
;)

OH MY GOD THAT IS FREAKING SWEET BEYOND ANY COMPREHENSION

I wish I could do something like that :<

Hey,

Tech Daddy, how did you get your pics to post?

????

You find a hosting location on line, in my case it is my public web/FTP space through Comcast. I upload there, then I type in the URL to the picture and put a
"[IMG]" at the begining, and a "[/IMG]" at the end....

that what you were looking for?

Well I have a comcast account, so when I get a chance I will look there.


Thanks again,