seriously... these kinds of paint jobs are $1000+ options on sellers like Hyper PC and Dell!! :eek: Shoot...
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seriously... these kinds of paint jobs are $1000+ options on sellers like Hyper PC and Dell!! :eek: Shoot...
yeah, but those paint jobs are done by pros.... I'm just learning. :)
I'm flattered that you would draw that parallel, thank you proxops-pete, but those guys have severl things that I do not.
1) Years of experience
2) Same paint in their system (highly likely)
3) a clean room to paint in.
and that is where the costs come from. But if I get good enough, then I will certainly start selling that option. ;)
I started working on the back end of the mod, and was thinking that the fan situation that I have in mind was going to be a bit cluttered. I did not like that thought at all. I planned on having a white LED fan on the inside of the case acting as exhaust, that would then be screwed to an external radbox, that would then have another fan and the external 120mm radiator. The radbox and fan buy me a little space to display some tubing and such, but having 2 fans back in the rear... how would I power 2 of them without having a mess of cabling?
If you remember, *waaayyyy* back in the build on BOSS, there was a power supply mod that I did not incorporate, it used the twist on "CB Radio" type connectors now being seen on some power supplies. Well... I still had those connectors, so my plan was to run a 2 wire (12v and ground) independent to that section of the case. soldering the 12v and ground into the legs of the connector receptacle, I then soldered another set of short legs off of the solder point, and heat shrinked the joint. I then took those 12v and ground legs and soldered them onto the fan power and ground lines, and covered those joints with black heat shrink.
This effectively minimized the 8 inches of fan cord to less than an inch. If I Have to replace this fan... it will be a bear! ;)
The external fan will have a cable treatment performed to it that will mate it to the male end of the joint/plug, being sure to keep 12v and ground properly designated, and will plug into the other side of what you see in the below picture.
http://www.tech-daddy.com/wlog/deuce/backpanel1.jpg
Going to Home Depot tomorrow, then maybe a bike shop or an auto shop... looking for some small diameter steel tubing
You could've fooled me plenty!!! :eek: :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Tech-Daddy
Cool Idea.. I like how you drilled the top of the fan so the hoses can get out.
Ahhhh! You saw that!
;)
Here is a little Turkey day post of the work I have done over the past week or so....
My goal is to have the power cabling for the rear fans stealthed except for the area where the wires feed into the fans. now. Knowing that I was going to have a 120mm rad on the back, and I wanted to have an exhaust fan inside the case (components will still need airflow!), I opted to put a Swiftech rad box up between the exhaust area and the fan for the rad. This will help to break up the airflow coming out from the case, and the radbox gives the rad fan about an inch of intake space to grab it's cool air from. Powering 2 fans from an internal/external location was going to be a bit of a challenge, and I came up with the idea of just having both fans share the same 12v run. As such I put in a passthrough port, attached the + and - onto the supply side of the passthrough, and then built a cable to the external most fan on the rad using the female of the connector. Initially, I was using 1 inch aluminum spacers, but thought they looked a bit too tall, so I dropped them to 1/2 inch ones, and thought that they looked much batter. I have to grind out a litle on the Radbox in the space in front of the case holes for the hoses, else I have a bit of a creasing of the hose as they pass by the sharp edge of the radbox. Enough talking... Here are the results:
http://www.tech-daddy.com/wlog/deuce/back_fan1.jpg
Backside of the connector with the split for the fan on this side, as well as the feed for the other side.
http://www.tech-daddy.com/wlog/deuce/back_fan2.jpg
Alum standoffs @ 1 inch... a bit to tall for my liking, so I bought some shorter ones.
http://www.tech-daddy.com/wlog/deuce/back_fan3.jpg
This shows the power line coming off the fan going past the external connector...
http://www.tech-daddy.com/wlog/deuce/back_fan4.jpg
Shorter assembly height, and a shorter fan power cable, looks much better!
http://www.tech-daddy.com/wlog/deuce/back_fan5.jpg
Closeup of the rear cable assembly.
http://www.tech-daddy.com/wlog/deuce/back_fan6.jpg
How it looks from the top. You can see the barb location as well as the holes where the tubing will come through.
that rig looks tight:eek:
so when is this case going to be complety done :O
Hehehe.... "it'll be done when it's done!" Not going to put myself on a time line with this one. If it goes more than a few more weeks though, I've done something horribly wrong or my life has turned upside down...
:)
just lock your self in the garage for a weekend straight and give your wife her vibrator and tweak your rig :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Tech-Daddy
Again, way to go Tech-Daddy. The mod is looking fantastic. And I do look forward to seeing the final end result.
And stop being so humble! ;)
I agree with proxops-pete. Whether you're a professional painter/airbrusher or not, it still looks amazing. As far as I'm concerned, you ARE a professional at this (just with less time to do it...since it's not your job and all :)).
You guys rock... thanks!
Well... hello everyone!
Due to the holidays, "real life" took a serious stick to my free time. Work has been an absolute leech, and then you have the holidays between my last post and this post. It's been tough, and I am *very* sorry for not having the time or the energy over the last 1.5 months. That kind of a gap in a log is not very professional, and I apologize to anyone who has been thinking I fell off the earth....
All that said, I've got an update!
WOOT!
;)
I was able to grab some time this last weekend and make more progress. I call this update:
"*** are you building??!?"
So grab some popcorn and have some fun! Here we go!
http://www.tech-daddy.com/wlog/deuce/line_standoff1.jpg
2 screws, a threaded standoff and a double coax staple... huh?
...
stick with me folks, I'm kinda proud this!
http://www.tech-daddy.com/wlog/deuce/line_standoff2.jpg
The staple come with a nail in the plastic housing... that gets yanked
Then I put the plastic piece in a vice and using a manual hand drill I bore the hole out that the nail was passed through:
http://www.tech-daddy.com/wlog/deuce/line_standoff4.jpg
http://www.tech-daddy.com/wlog/deuce/line_standoff5.jpg
Then, to get one of the longer screws through the plastic, I very carefully hit the hole with a 1/4" bit in a power drill and dig out a recession of the screw head to sit in, and that also gives a bit more thread exposed on the bottom end:
http://www.tech-daddy.com/wlog/deuce/line_standoff6.jpg
http://www.tech-daddy.com/wlog/deuce/line_standoff7.jpg
http://www.tech-daddy.com/wlog/deuce/line_standoff8.jpg
http://www.tech-daddy.com/wlog/deuce/line_standoff9.jpg
http://www.tech-daddy.com/wlog/deuce...standoff10.jpg
Then I screw on the threaded standoff:
http://www.tech-daddy.com/wlog/deuce...standoff11.jpg
And we have a finished... something! ;)
http://www.tech-daddy.com/wlog/deuce...standoff12.jpg
But wait...wait... "Tech-Daddy, there were 2 screws in the picture? Where does the other one go?"
Glad you asked! I take those and screw them through the frame of the back panel of the computer chassis:
http://www.tech-daddy.com/wlog/deuce...standoff13.jpg
http://www.tech-daddy.com/wlog/deuce...standoff14.jpg
Then I screw in the other end of the threaded standoff to the exposed threads of the screw I just put in place:
http://www.tech-daddy.com/wlog/deuce...standoff15.jpg
http://www.tech-daddy.com/wlog/deuce...standoff16.jpg
Kinda neat... but looks lonely:
http://www.tech-daddy.com/wlog/deuce...standoff17.jpg
That's better... but what are they for? Well... remember that fan junction that I built that ties the internal and external fans together? Well... I still need to get 12v and ground to that location... and anyone who knows me knows that the cables will not simply "fly" across the case. So, I take the cables, and where they will be seen, I make them appealing. I'm actually running a single cable inside each tube:
http://www.tech-daddy.com/wlog/deuce...standoff18.jpg
http://www.tech-daddy.com/wlog/deuce...standoff19.jpg
I like how that looks! I run the lines up to the structural cross bar that spans the entire side of the case, and I run my 12v and ground lines inside that piece of steel. Once it gets to the front of the case, they drop out and begin their trek down the 5.25 bay area. So I clad those lines in tubing again and built 2 more standoffs and attached them to 2 holes in bays that I will not be using:
http://www.tech-daddy.com/wlog/deuce...standoff20.jpg
http://www.tech-daddy.com/wlog/deuce...standoff21.jpg
http://www.tech-daddy.com/wlog/deuce...standoff22.jpg
There you go! Tastefully done power, front to back, and you will only see what I want you to see of it!
As for the 3 hard drive bays that are inserted in the bottom of the case in that cage adaptor thingy, it has a spot for a 120mm fan on the front of it, and I am going to use it. But, unlike the fans elsewhere in the case, I dont want to put a lit LED fan there, as the back light will screw up the front mesh panel flame effect, so I instead went for a nice and quiet black fan. I knew that the cabling was never going to be seen, so I did not sleeve it... but I did blast it several times with vinyl dye then attach it to an electric screw driver and twist it, then touch it up with the vinyl dye. I like that look a lot better... :)
http://www.tech-daddy.com/wlog/deuce...standoff23.jpg
I also put on foam, noise isolating, neoprene insulators to each screw contact point:
http://www.tech-daddy.com/wlog/deuce...standoff24.jpg
Mounted it up:
http://www.tech-daddy.com/wlog/deuce...standoff25.jpg
http://www.tech-daddy.com/wlog/deuce...standoff26.jpg
http://www.tech-daddy.com/wlog/deuce...standoff27.jpg
The res's may be relocated. This was just an idea I was bantering around.