Project: Black Zipper

[bentleya]

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How It All Started:

before 24th December 2007 at least 2 years before

Well after looking on the forum for about a year and other forums like this (bit-tech, TBCS and a few others) i wound pluge in a build a custom rig, but haveing not much money a no pc building experience, i went looking for old system to rebuild to get to know the parts (only none two so till a begner), then i started to read the magerzine, Custom PC which iterjucied me to the big e-tailor (such as scan, misco, dabs and novatech) from there i've been added items to the shopping basket and designing a computer though my head. i then relished when i start to build all of this most of the products will change (new products, old products cheaper and so on) so i decide to stop with that and to customize the begie case i had salvage from my works skip, and then think about the inside, and after some thought and buying the books "pc chop shop" and "dightal hot rods" the designs started poping into my head, but before i got carried away in doing a complete custom design, i shound start at the bottem, and work my way to the top, and on that i have decide to do a morden/idustrail looking case with an orignal fell to it, lain li interia parts (because i love there hard drive cages) and a fast slick looking paint job.

Brief:
To customize my boring standed beige case, to a high performance computer with a morden and idusrail theme. With a fast slick pant job, Water cooling and Lain Li interior parts.

Plan:
1.To paint the case fully black including interior, including the lain li parts which will be black powder coated
2.Twin Turbine Fans in front of case (2 120mm)
3.2 custom resvires with led's and mesh in side panel
4.Lian Li Wheels, Removeable MB Tray, Hard Drive Rack and DVD Drive Rack
5.9 White LED's in bottem of case to give glow afect and 4 led's in each resiver to give glowing
6.White stipes along front, top and side panel of case
7.Remote DVD Drives 2 In Total
8.All Cables to be Sleeved In White Sleeving
9.cpu and gpu watercooling
10.Custom Usb Hub In front Of case
11.custom name on left side panel
12.Mesh around componants

Products Brought So Far:

23rd December 2007

Case Taken Apart

Iv'e drawn around the parts on the bezal that need filling and cutting

24th December 2007

Iv'e cut out the side panel that will hold the resivrs

and heres the panel back on the case

29th December 2007

i've appled the first layer of filler to the other side panel to make it smoth to get rid of the horribly x, and it's ready to be sanded down and a nother coat appleyed

and heres the case with only the cut side panel on

31st December 2007

i've sanded down the first layer of filler and have appled the secend coat, i think i only need 2 more layers after this one

i went shopping i brougt myself a nice new shiny dremel 300

and some more filler and some nuts and bolts

1st January 2008

and i have sanded down the filler on the side panel, one more layer shound do the trick now

18th January 2008

i've marked out the front metal before the plastic bezel and on the plastic pipe.

i'm cutting the metal so the a can place a sheet of aluminm in there so i can cut holes for the fans because at the moment the is holes and inlets everywhere. and i cound leave it but it wound be better if i made it fresh.

26th January 2008

i have Solded all the Resistors on to the LED's for the bottom

ready for the black wires and heat shrink

all solded up now just need heat shrink and test fit

With heat shrink Added

and a little test fit

all wired up

1st February 2008

i have cut out and grinded down the front metal panel before the bezel

i am buying a fan grill for the 2 triple rads, thanks marcus00 for this

4th February 2008

i got home from work and my parcels had come

1 big box and a screen

and now for the contents of the box

thermaltake TR2 - 500W PSU

OCZ DDR2 Ram

EVGA 8800gt 512mb

intel core 2 quad

ASUS P5N32-E SLI Plus Motherboard

32bit Vista OEM

Samsung 500gb Hard Drive

Logitech S510 Keyboard and Mouse

7th February 2008

5m of 1/2 tubeing

2 swiftech pumps

2 black ice 360 rads

2 ek 250 res

6 fans

ek 8800gt block

barbs and paste

rad brackets and hose clips

1/2 gromets

and my d-tec block and kit are on back order and shound be here the end of next week

[bentleya]

17th February 2008

my d-tek fusions came this week and the other screws for the rad, thanks rob, i also got sent a little WCUK badge with that

front perpex panel instead of the metal one i made which will in cooperate led's

these will hold the tubes which i will much up to 4s, i have designs theres as thee is going to be a hell of a lot of tubing and once again led's incorporated into the perspex

i have also designed some for 2 lots of tubing, and again with led's

First of I wound like to thank Paul at CCS Windscreens for sponsoring me for this mod

I have applied another coat of filler on to the side panel

When I cut of the excess plastic on the front bezel it left the area around it ugly and rough so I put a sanding disc in the dremel and sanded it down.

I’m going to include a quick safety message in here, about safety items when dremeling, due to the fact I spent 5 hours in A&E on Thursday, I was dremeling out some metal sheeting when the disc snapped and landed in my eye,

I have got a cut my the side of my left eye, a scratched eye and there was dermel dust in there

There lifted up my eyelid and shoved a cotton bud up there to remove the dust, which was really wied then the put some orange dye in my eye to make sure it was all out,

Now I’ve got a half orange eye, which I can’t see, propley out of, and have to put eyedrops and cream in for the next week

So I recommend now that you where there’s dust masks

And some goggles

After that now for the dremeling

Before Sanding

After Sanding

as you can see from the picture above that I have rounded off the bottom of the bezel for the lain li ports that I am going to buy

I am also going to change the design of the side panel, due to the fact that I put the res’s up onto the side panel and the angles didn’t look right, so I am going to put 3mm Perspex under the side panel and then cut out the new hole and filler up the holes after I have installed the Perspex surroundings

Like THEkorean did with his black and which wavemaster

I will be doing something like that but with two res’s instead of one

I have also changed my mind on the front fans I will now have two 120mm fans together instead of a 92mm and a 120mm

Here is the new design

I will make a fan box to go in the front of my case for this and will make a turbine style front bezel as before for the fans, which I will filler up.

I am also deciding on if I if should put a 7’ screen on the bezel of the case.

Well after them changes I had some more,

I’m going to get it spayed my by mate Colin and then get it airbrushed with lightin stripes.

That’s it for now happy modding

[scar~face]

man, this thing has got me stoked

[bentleya]

man, this thing has got me stoked

it's got my head in so many designs if money was'nt a problem, it woun never end, i wound install something then decided to mod it some more

[J-Roc]

Whats your native language? It sounds kazakhstian when i sound it out. I was reading it as if i was borat

Cool mod dude. Looks like its going to be a nice one.

[bentleya]

Whats your native language? It sounds kazakhstian when i sound it out. I was reading it as if i was borat

Cool mod dude. Looks like its going to be a nice one.

english but it wound be cool to be borat, but i am dexlic so expect it to be bad in some places, the words which are spelt wrong is because firefox dos't recinoise it ether, HE HE, there is 3 words spelt wrong in that sentence

[p0Pe]

that looks nice:O and a nice bunch of hardware you got there to:p

[bentleya]

that looks nice:O and a nice bunch of hardware you got there to:p

yes i got something nice

i'm consufused because some people on other forums didn't like the hardware choices

[The boy 4rm oz]

Nice work so far buddy. I like your defyant way of mounting the reservoirs.

[tinker]

Nice work so far buddy. I like your defyant way of mounting the reservoirs.

haha. I thought the same thing. It's a method that is proven to look good though.