Sneaky Update: 3-25-09
Since I got my box of spare parts from Re-evolution (thanks again man!) I figured i would get some work done. The old Dell gave up it's optical cage, and I tell you, It's EXACTLY what I was going to build. I can't believe it worked out so well:

It did take some minimal modding: (sorry for the pic. It says "all these tabs have got to go!")



Pfft....ain't nothing my old friend can't take care of while I drink a brewski:

Win:

Room for switches in between them:


More win: (tight and flush)

Let's add some extrusion to the mix:


We can surely come up with some sort of rigging for the HDD's with the extras I have left over:

A work in progress: (remember, this is just a mock up stage)

Another piece of cylindrical filter element that I salvaged from the scrap bin and straightened: (it might look good powdered and backlit eh?)

For scale:

Imagine this with bronze acrylic around it: (candy)

Thanks for watching Fellas
Ramsey77
CPU Q6600 @ 3.2 Ghz |
Motherboard EVGA 780i |
Memory 4Gb Corsair XMS2 800 |
Graphics Card EVGA GTX 280 Superclocked @ FTW speeds |
Hard Drive 320 Gb Hitachi Deskstar and 640Gb WD Caviar |
Sound Card Creative Extreme Gamer |
Power Supply 1 Kw Thermaltake Toughpower |
Case CoolerModded Cosmos 1000 |
CPU cooling Thermaltake V1 |
GPU cooling Stock EVGA |
OS Vista 32 bit |
Monitor Samsung 245 BW |
Last edited by Ramsey77 : 03-31-09 at 09:23 PM
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