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    Project: Elegant-Li The boy 4rm oz's Avatar
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    Default Re: Project Clockwork vII

    If you are keeping the heatsinks and all that uncovered then you shouldn't have a problem with heat. You could even cover up the heatsinks and have 40 or 60mm fans built into the cover with a rustified cog grill . The downside of this is that you do get slightly more noise and the cover has to be slightly thicker.

    Check out Defyant's work, he made a mobo cover for practically every mod lol.
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    If you can't hack it, you don't own it! Oneslowz28's Avatar
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    As long as you find a POT rated at 120 volts or so and a few amps then it should work fine to drop the voltage. I saw a rotary dimmer at Homedepot the other week for like $7 IIRC.

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    Default Re: Project Clockwork vII

    This is looking great! Looking forward to the finsished thing.

    -gaz

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    *low whistle* grats on the front page.. there seems to be more electronics than an E&E retard like me can handle here xD

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    Looks really great ! kuddoos and rep +1

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    Default Heart of the Machine - Part 1

    Quick update, I got the holes cut for the newly bottom-mounted PSU:





    And the lovely 1000-watt monster in place with its wires tucked neatly away out of sight. (The purpose of the plexi taped to the top of the PSU will come clear in time.)





    I made a cover for it from three sheets of plexi and gave it the first step of the rust treatment.





    Got some small angle iron and gave it the real rust treatment. I love the way this stuff looks!



    And again with some holes carefully measured and drilled:





    I don't like the smooth look of the angle iron, so here we have a brass spiral nail with convenient round head:





    I took a bunch of these and drove them into a board in rows. Obviously I can't have any shiny brass in here, so I hit them with a mapp gas torch until they were glowing.




    To get the shine off of the heads:



    Not so shiny now, are ya??


    Not content with mistreating them like this, I cut their heads off.



    Gruesome, ain't it?



    But it was for a good cause. I think stage 1 of the PSU cover came out very well:







    I know, I am going to have to raise the whole machine up a little bit to allow the PSU to breathe. I'm still pondering something that will serve as feet.


    Next update may be a while coming, but it will be worth it.

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    Default Re: Project Clockwork vII

    that came out awesome! +rep

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    wow thats sweet! lovin the rust look! it came out really good

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    Default Re: Project Clockwork vII

    The PSU looks amazing, fantastic work mate, can't wait for more .
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    Default Re: Project Clockwork vII

    Awesome blue! Coming together fantastically. Watching...
    On the bottom, what if you set it up like a boiler with a flickering flame effect? The entire case would be lifted up 2 inches or so and vertical slots cut all the way around.

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