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7/17/12 at 10:45pm

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NEWEST UPDATE 7/17/12: Trim finished and fans finished and installed!

Finished the Trim

Ambient Lighting Switch panel progress:

Decided that I will just cut out the mesh and laser cut a piece of Delrin with holes for the switches to snap in place. I will superglue the piece of delrin to the modified bezel.
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Finished Fans! One is for the back 120MM the 140MM is for the front and the other 120MM is going where the smaller hard drive cage was, a hole will be cut on my skateboard so that air can get in easier. I decided that side fans will replaced with non LED fans that have high airflow and low noise. There is not much to see but harddrives so having LEDs on those fans makes no sense.

Installing the painted fans. I really like how well everything came out.

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7/18/12 at 12:27pm

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Looks sweet man, loving how this is coming.

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7/19/12 at 8:00am

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nice mod going on, what paint did you use for it?

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7/19/12 at 12:06pm

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Originally Posted by barkinos98

nice mod going on, what paint did you use for it?

Thanks man! I used rustoleum that bonds to plastic. If I did it over again I would use Krylon instead but home depot didn't have it. For clear coat I used rustoleum lacquer.

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7/22/12 at 5:34pm

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The only thing I can think of that would be an improvement, would be sleeving those cables.

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7/22/12 at 7:35pm

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Quote:

Originally Posted by XNine

The only thing I can think of that would be an improvement, would be sleeving those cables.

I agree! I would really like to sleeve the cables but my PSU is semi modular so I can't do it without voiding the warranty. If I can spare the cash I am considering a new PSU that is 100% modular for sleeving.

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7/22/12 at 10:09pm

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Sexy case. I'd totally buy it

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7/22/12 at 10:12pm

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You should have painted one fan blue and another orange

. Haha but great job !!

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7/23/12 at 1:10am

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Originally Posted by mronionknight

You should have painted one fan blue and another orange

. Haha but great job !!

That was considered but I wanted to keep consistent with the color of my motherboard. The sequel build that I hope to get underway in september will be GLADoS that will feature plenty of Orange!

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7/29/12 at 10:44pm

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So I'm thinking I want to enter my mod into Mod of The Month for August, its still ongoing but it fits within the requirements so what he heck? What do you folks think? I would rather be nominated then nominate myself so let me know if you wanna nominate me!

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