The Intelligence - Day 55 - finishing 02
FRIDAY (12/12/2008)
The Intelligence is a cross-dresser
thats a piece of scrap acrylic with cut edges, light is straight on - see a diff from the left side to the right?
turns out black nail polish is a quick trick to black-out fairly clean cut edges without sanding/rouging (but only for very clean cuts) I didnt like the look of the openings for the roller dials but I couldnt get in there and sand and rouge so I tried this
heres the bottom case roller dial face cut all blacked out. I did the same to the switch plate roller dial cut out
got some supplies from home depot for making terminal blocks for all the electrical in the case. They only had 6-gang blocks (I wanted 4 gang) but 6 is ok
started making the feeds and the bridge for 4 gang
theres one feed and the jumps
had quite a good helper with me crimping wires and testing circuits
thats the second terminal block feed with jumoers, and the altered switch lamp feeds
SATURDAY (12/13/2008)
went to auto parts and picked up some vacuum hose, which I was gonna use to space out the roller dials but I ended up not using it, as youll see
just to get an idea, the terminal blocks will replace all of this mess
idea for rear psu fan, notice the sliced off corners on the fan label side?
jumping around, sorry, needed to make spacers for roller dials, instead of rubber tube pieces
had two pieces already, so cut 4 more
tested the first 6
nice
cut out 6 more
win
got to making the fan headers that will be on the terminal block on that side (left side above psu - intake fans, psu exhaust, switch lamps)
there she is, not too bad me thinks
and theres the full terminal
ready for power test
all fired up ok
modding tape of the gods (3M #4010)
seated terminal block (sorry flash,dust,anger)
covered connections with elec tape
back to the new exhaust idea, glued some 1/8" rounded channel to a piece of 80mm exhaust tube
got the stuff ready
the fan is label side down (now you see why tabs were cut) then I epoxied the fan fram to the tube. The rubber trim (on the bottom in this pic) makes this tube fit snugly on the existing exhaust tube in the case. Basically I made a removable fan tube that will suck psu exhaust out of the case.
more pics soon (sorry if parts of this log were confusing)
need to make the other terminal block (maybe tomr morning before I get Jess)
thanks for watching
* This Worklog post was generated using WorklogCreator - Version: 1.0.0.7
* Free Download:
http://www.mod2software.com/worklogc...logcreator.zip