Penicilyn

Adopt me...

Amazing work there CD keep it up, I can't get enough of these builds, when I'm sitting on some cash I'll have to get you to mod a case for me, probably an Apple G5 case, the Rotten Apples mod I saw on OCN was amazing.

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Right now I decided to have some fun and rounded up 8 identical controllers from Silverstone Fan kits and am thinking abouot mounting them in a vertical line down the back...8 knobs...heh

And I pulled out 3 of the analog tmp gauges like I used on Blue Dream and am seeing they would fit with a slight mod in a bay cover...s i am headed down to th shop to play around with th drillpress sander and hotglue gun

More in a bit..this might be a long night

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lavieinjuste

Well, you're prolly most of the way done if not asleep. Have fun!

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CyberDruid

Well it was a long night...in fact it is officially tomorrow

I did get a couple of other custom touches done and I am pleased with how they came out.

I decided to go with the Silverstone fan controllers because they can be remotely mounted and I can centralize the wiring and make a neat harness. I also had a mess of the cntroll knobs on hand I went ahead and orderd three more from Neweg OVernight shipping so I can be sure to finalize the wiring without delay.


I took apart some of the panels I had collected to get 8 controllers.


Here is the location I settled on for a variety of reasons: it keps the front looking clean; there are pre-exisitng perforations; the knobs are silver and match the silver backplane; the wires from the controllers will have a short run straight to the power below decks.


I nipped off the lil tabs on the controllers so they would lay flat and enlarged the grid slightly with my step bit.



I like it..hope QuakeMazer does too

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Then I turned my attentions to fabricating a triple gauge bay device for QuakeMazer to monitor his rig temps at a glance.


I like these analog gauges I found they have a nice mellow glow like a tube amp...the LED shifts to amber then orange and finally red as the temps rise.


I bored three precisely lcated holes in one of the bay covers and modified the gauges by grinding off their "ears" and fusing them togther with acrylic adhesive.


The unified block of gauges I then adhered to the aluminum plate using "Goop" and incredibly strong all purpose adhesive that will hold up quite well.


Looks pretty nice...the only thing that would be better is black faces on the gauges but I have yet to find any temp gauges with black faces and these are not built so you can take the protective lenses off so no retouching. I like it anyway. I will be making mor of thes for my own stash ...let's see what QuakeMazer thinks.

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Then I decided to give this fine rig a classic CyberDruid touch: fan isolators.


This aluminum plate is one of the only thin pieces of aluminum on the case...why they decided to make the fan mount thin with little support is a mystery. Otherwise the case is very well designed.


I've been saving these silicon grommets for just such an occasion.


A quick drilling with the step bit to slightly enlargee the holes so I can insert the grommets.


I used torx drive buttonhead screw to add some class to the ass end of this fine looking rig.


The fans are now decoupled...this will without a doubt lower the noise of the them once the rig is in action.


Locknuts will ensure evrything stays put as it should...


QuakeMazer gave me the go ahead to keep the FilPort internal so I will next make a tasty polished aluminum standoff to keep the Fill tube from flopping about.

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That's all I could get done tonight...I hope to get much further tomorrow. My goal is to be running in the loop tomorrow night.

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CyberDruid

Well what do you guys think of that?

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lavieinjuste

I wish I could do that with my fans on my case. They make the entire side panel vibrate and it is extremely noisy. I just unplugged them until I get my new fans and I figure out how to do something similar to what you did.

I like the fan controllers too.

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Aura

Pardon me, but that is one nice ass .

Great idea with the Silverstone controllers, I had a moment of "Cyber-Vision" and actually saw that in my head before I scrolled down to the picture.

Man, both Syrillian and you working on TJ07's makes me jealous .

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Syrillian

I'll tell you once I pick myself up off of the floor....

Yeah! Buyah! Nice use of the the rear grill for the fan controllers. Nicely intergrated.

My apologies if I missed it in your log, but I was wonderin' what you are going to do for exhaust in the lower chamber. I am assuming that the Rad will be drawing from the outside.... is it passive (stock grill)..?...

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Well the fans are mounted to push air through the rad so the exhaust will go wherever it wants I ama hoping most of it goes out the mesh grill on thelower cmpartment...but no doubt some of it will waft upwards and be drawn out by the top fans...

I am as curious as anyojne how well this set upp will work.

The 140mm fan of the PSU is slap up against the rad so it will help draw some air out the back.

Hmmm time to clean my keyboard. I keep gettin no "e" in my typings lol.

Well gotta hit the shop.

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QuakeMazer

gorgeous as usual, thanks for the update