Greetings from Amsterdam fellow enthusiasts!
It's 5:45am here and it's way to early for a debaucherous day of bars and brothels, so I'm taking some time to get some work done.
I'm looking for a material to use as a dust filter, which will also work as a sort-of blackout.
As some of you may know already, I'm in the process of building a case from Carbon Fiber called project: Helios.
Here's a repost of the design, in an exploded view:
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I'm looking to fill the gaps of all the air intake holes with a filter material of sorts, and I'm leaning 1 of 2 directions.
1) The first idea was to find a filter material similar that used in the front-air-intake on the old Lian-Li PC-60 cases. Something like the pic below.
This idea would involve cutting a bunch of pieces to size and seating them in the cutouts, flush with the exterior of the case and held in-place from the back - which MAY look kinda cool I'll have to experiment and see.
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2) The second, and likely more viable, plan was to fabricate something similar to the system used in the Lian-Li TYR PC-X2000. Something like this:
The idea here being to create 6 carriages on the insides of the chassis, which can be removed for cleaning. I've illustrated the idea below in the form of green rectangles, so you can get a better idea of positioning:
HOWEVER both of the material examples shown above succeed only in dust collection - but I'm also looking for something to black-out the holes.
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So my question to you is:
Does anyone have a suggestion for materials that can be used to catch dust, but are also very hard to see through? I'm looking for 2 possible solutions, one to fit each of the design ideas listed above.
The challenge I see here is finding a material that's opaque, but not overly obstructive as to stop air-flow.
Thanks in advance gentlemen.
*j