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[fiendskull9]

those blow holes look really slick man

i think im gonna do those blow holes on my bezel for my next mod

clay

[p9l28a]

wow good job

[Defyant]

Thanx guys

HDD BOX is simple by design, orig the idea was to use an old plex rack from a clear case i had here, but i thought a custom made

matching black HDDBOX would suit the mod better.

Ive decided to go with a max of 6 HDDS... thats more than a enuf for a few TB's and will allow me to keep my antec350 psu in service.

Just to spice things up a bit ive decided to mount the Upper and Lower HDD's in and an angle!

The top 3 HDD's will slid in Upwards! and the bottem three Downwards.

to help with the HDD mounting holes... a small " Hole Jig" was made.

Drill time!

For Guide runners a long strip of 3mm Sqr rod is cut into 12 strips

Glue time!

4 Workshop drives are slotted in for a test look

The Rack is sat in the case for final bracket mesurments and to check clearances on the rest of the parts.

With the Side LCD panel mounted as well.... it's tight but a few CM's is more than enuf clearance all round.

[taste_the_painbow]

simply stunning. your bondo work is enoung to make a persons jaw drop. i have an hp case right now and i feal inspired to do some thing with it. are you going to do any lighting in it. i may have overread that part.

[Defyant]

Cheers ttp! it would be great to see you start mate youve got all the support you need right here mate

I do have plans for lighting! remote controlled lighting too!



Today i decided to do some more work to the front LCD, i needed to devise mount and link system,

the idea behind this is to have "some adjustment" in the the screen when alining and bolting the screen in.

The Main bracket is just a solid peice of plex that is perma glu'd to the inside middle of the Front fan box.

The common or joiner link will be this bent peice of plex, this will act as a swivel joint that will allow for adjustment both sideways
and back and forwarth.

The link is bolted the the main mount wicth is drilled ansd tapped.

@ this stage the link is left finger tight to allow for movement and silicon tape is applied.

[Defyant]

Rather than trying to guess work or measure the right spot to stick the LCD to! the best way to ALIGN the LCD up with
its new link bracket is cheet by temperarily sticking the LCD to the front panel!!

Then it's just a matter of removing the silicon tape's backing and silding the Whole unit in so it presses up against the LCD!

Once the LCD has stuck to its new bracket...the front panel can be removed leaving the LCD stuck to its new bracket

the whole LCD is now an adjustable unit allowing it to but up perfect against the front frame

[Defyant]

Perhaps the coolest feature of this LCD mod is that it has "Remote Control" Features!

There are many controlable features from the remote but perhaps the coolest ones are the one/off , selectable inputs!, + video out!am radio! and......
Remote control lights! this will alow me to switch lights on and off using the Remote! this should work in very handy when any maintinance
needs to be done or for light features!

The remote light control is fun to play with! testing here with a single blue LED

With the daughterboard hooked up and the unit powered you can see the remote selectable inputs!
The son has already twigged that the XBOX can be hooked up to the second input

And a qick bootup into windows to test both LCD's!

[onelegout]

2!!! two lcd screens?
Dayamn....

[nil8]

Deyant, you make professional work look way too easy.

Love the hard drive idea. Planning on lighting the cage?

[DaveW]

Pretty amazing stuff-specually the side window display. Looks perfect.

-Dave