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5/29/12 at 3:28am
OK, it's time to abandon my CM690 (See Sig Rig)... It's had a fair bit of use and abuse!

Just bought myself a cheap, used 922, going to be installing a full custom loop this week.. will be posting back here soon. Not going for anything too spectacular, after painting and cutting my CM690, all I'm really looking for is a simple, clean build.

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5/29/12 at 3:40am
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Lookin' good. Can't wait to see it done thumb.gif
I got inspired by some of the builds I saw here, and decided to do something completely uninspired. Since I have the original 932 with the ugly galvanized steel interior, I decided it was high time to paint it - flat black with a satin clear coat.
Base HAF 932 after removing all the plastic parts. Accidentally broke off a latch for the front side bezels because I didn't see the two screws hidden under the front I/O bay redface.gif
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Stripped down the interior - used medium grade steel wool to basically scratch all the parts i'm going to be painting. The picture doesn't show much, but its extremely shiny - so much so that the sun overhead reflecting off it was a massive pain.
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You can see how shiny the metal really is. The overly shiny bits were the places where I could really sand it down - but the other areas are quite well stripped as well. Didn't want any paint flaking off tongue.gif
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The front side - I realized my mistake 2 minutes into painting the primer but its all fixed now. I forgot to mask off the front of it to prevent over-spray.
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After 4 or so coats of Rustoleum Painters Touch White Primer. Looks quite good IMO. Took me quite a while to get to this stage - almost sun down.
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Side panel and PSU tray also primed and ready to go. Realized another mistake here - forgot to mask off the black side of the side panel so there's quite a bit of primer flakes and over-spray on it. I might have to sand it down and paint that as well.
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The inside of the drive bays. This was a fair bit easier to paint that I'd expected. A spray-can holder with a trigger is a very good investment when undertaking something like this. $5 well spent I think biggrin.gif
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Still just primer - the PSU holder close-up
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I'll be painting the black coats tomorrow - 3-5 of Rustoleum Painters Touch Flat Black with 3-4 of the Satin Clear should do it I think. More pictures then smile.gif If I say so myself, just the primer looks darn good. Very smooth to the touch and looks quite even. Looks quite spiffy in white. Black should make it look even better I think. I'm glad I spent the time to sand it down well.



I am right there with you. I want to do black with my 932 also but BP wants to put some candy on it. LOL
Edited by LUZR4LIFE - 5/29/12 at 3:43am
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post #19113 of 21392
5/29/12 at 8:39am
Okay...

So, is it worth keeping the 200mm fan in the top of my 922 and mounting my 240mm rad externally with fans and guards, all of which I have. Effectively giving me a push pull setup vs the rad being mounted internally with fans and reemoving the 200mm fan?

The first option obviously being less pleasing on the eye!
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5/29/12 at 4:25pm
Up to you, wont make much difference, the 200mm fans have no static pressure. Personally I would say not worth it.
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5/30/12 at 2:49pm
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Did a couple of flat black coats - 4-5 coats. The results after drying for about 22 hours:

Lookin' good - I think. Looks a bit gray, but I think the satin clear coat that I still have to do should fix that.
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The masking tape comes off after I do the clear coat. No point risking something this late into the game biggrin.gif
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I think I might've become a little lazy doing the PSU holders tongue.gif. Still shouldn't be too noticeable I hope - especially once there's a PSU on it
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Obligatory before/after comparison. Looks quite good I think. Can't wait to put some hardware in this thing thumb.gif
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5/30/12 at 3:06pm
I think you did a great job. The silver on the chassis before is, in my opinion, completely revolting lol. I think that color should be banned from the computer case world.

The flat black looks great. My personal opinion is leave it flat black and just throw a protective cover over it without any shine, but each to their own thumb.gif
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You're right - the galvanized steel interior kills the look of the case. It baffles as to why they'd do that when there's such a large window on these things.

As for the flat black - I love it the way it is right now. The only problem being that there is no completely clear protective finish I can use. The closest is the satin clear which is more of a dull finish. Definitely not gloss (*gag*), but not a matte finish like the black either. To be exact its this stuff: 350

Apparently its supposed to come out like the lid of the can. I'll probably just test it out on the PSU cover first - just to make sure it comes out as I expect it to. Last thing I want now is for the final coat to mess up all the hard work I put into this.
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5/30/12 at 3:24pm
I agree - paint job looks great! I always wanted to paint my Haf-932 interior and seeing your result reaffirms that it would be worth doing thumb.gif
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5/30/12 at 3:28pm
You want to coat it with that satin or you'll leave fingerprints when ever you work on it.

The silver interior is painted, it's not metal. I sanded mine first before I painted the flat black.

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I agree - paint job looks great! I always wanted to paint my Haf-932 interior and seeing your result reaffirms that it would be worth doing thumb.gif

Go for it! The paint I used was the Rustoleum Painters Touch - white primer base, flat black colour, and the satin clear (probably) for the finish. I found all of them at Rona - I'm sure there's one nearby.

As for total cans used, I need one of the "Ultra 2x cover" and another regular one for the primer. I didn't have enough for the PSU stands (the 2x runs about $8 at pretty all the stores I've looked at - Canadian Tire, Rona, Home Depot, etc. The regular is about $6). As for the flat black - I used 2 full cans of the regular (the non 2x cover - also $6). Buying a third can of the black would probably be a good idea. I'm sure an extra coat or two wouldn't hurt.

As for sandpaper, I used steel wool to prep the surface - but that took almost 2 hours. I'd recommend using a 60 or 80 grit sandpaper to rough up the surface - should get it done much faster. Furthermore, I used a 600grit wet/dry sandpaper between between the primer coats and the black. The smoother the primer base, the smoother your finish.

Also get yourself one of these - makes spraying it much easier.
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