Project: Cosmos-S-Trail

yeesh! when I first saw your Yamaha build I was like :shocked:. Now this! man your builds are inspiring :up: can't wait to see more!!

wouldn't it have been better if the vent was moulded before the side panel was powder coated?

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Originally Posted by emoners

wouldn't it have been better if the vent was moulded before the side panel was powder coated?

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Not really, because you can't powder coat plastic with good effect as powder coating is applied electrostatically and then cured in an oven.

Basically, powder coating was a little trick i found to get rid of the original grain effect on the side panels and is a great durable flat base coat to lay paint on :up:

Good and bad news today!

Got the panels back from paint today and one turned out fine while the other had a few little reactions which the painter put down to water caught in the vent from wet sanding so its got to be re-done which is a bit of a pain but these things happen i guess.

Here some pictures of the good one.........the other is already being re-sanded.

http://www.coolercases.co.uk/skull/skull_56.jpg

http://www.coolercases.co.uk/skull/skull_57.jpg

http://www.coolercases.co.uk/skull/skull_58.jpg

http://www.coolercases.co.uk/skull/skull_59.jpg

http://www.coolercases.co.uk/skull/skull_60.jpg

http://www.coolercases.co.uk/skull/skull_61.jpg

http://www.coolercases.co.uk/skull/skull_62.jpg

http://www.coolercases.co.uk/skull/skull_63.jpg

Wow, so far it looks awesome. I bought a Cosmos S a few days ago. How do you go about painting aluminum and plastic. The Cosmos S looks good, but some parts make it looks cheap.

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sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet

nice choice of smokes :)

envious, sub'd.

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Originally Posted by coolmiester

... Basically, powder coating was a little trick i found to get rid of the original grain effect on the side panels and is a great durable flat base coat to lay paint on :up:

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That black is killer! Man oh man:up:

For the powdercoat base is there any particular shade of black that is more appropriate than others or does it matter at all? I'll be finishing most of my exterior in some shade of black, and figured it'd be a good idea to ripoff, er... emulate.. yeah, emulate... your methods.:) I want the plastic chassis "frames" to match the panels, so I want to paint them together but with the panels p-coated with a basecoat.

The polishing job on the alu is totally inspiring - that looks exactly like chrome!

Thanks Ted :up:

I had the panels done in satin black powder but that's not full story if your wanting to replicate the process.

After the vents were fitted i wet sanded the whole lot with 1500 then 2000gritt which gets it pretty flat but still leaves a good key for paint. .

One thing i did miss out was that the panels will still need cutting back with a further 2000grit wet sand then machine polished and waxed which basically gives it a factory finish :up:

Good luck!

Thank ya. Ah, so a bit of sanding before (edit: and even after) the paint. Got some 1500 and 2000 on hand too. Perfect:up:

love those panels look great

nice work .. this looks better than the SLK version you did earlier

Nice one thanks - wish i had more to report tbh but its just been a case of redoing the panel which is in primer again waiting for paint and clear coat then waiting for the chassis to get back from the anodises but after that the plumbing should begin.

I also ordered a Mips Ram Freezer 4 Block for the RAM which should be here in a couple of days.

Sorry, that's about it :(

http://www.coolercases.co.uk/skull/skull_66.jpg

http://www.coolercases.co.uk/skull/mips_nickel.jpg

Again, my apologies for all waiting for the wet stuff to start taking shape but there's not much i can do until the chassis gets back other than to make the black bits blacker and the shiny bits shinier :lol:

So, in keeping with the black / chrome of the vents.........


http://www.coolercases.co.uk/skull/skull_67.jpg

http://www.coolercases.co.uk/skull/skull_68.jpg

http://www.coolercases.co.uk/skull/skull_69.jpg

http://www.coolercases.co.uk/skull/skull_70.jpg

http://www.coolercases.co.uk/skull/skull_71.jpg

This black is so shine...what do u use to polishing ?

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This black is so shine...what do u use to polishing ?

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Neither has been done yet but i will use Diamondbrite Protective Glaze Sealant for the final polish after machine polished with Farecla Advanced G3 Liquid

http://www.coolercases.co.uk/skull/skull_65.jpg

And u use slowrotational grinder ? I have slowrotational grinder (Bosch) and Farecla sponge but I didn't know what use to polishing...So now I know ^^ Thanks mate.
Oh, I forgot. How many Diamondbrite Protective Glaze Sealant u need to polish case ? 500ml is enough ?

looking good, subscribed..

MIPs Ram Freezer 4 turned up first thing this morning so i set about getting it fitted but ran into problems right off the bat :S

Basically once i got the stock heat spreaders off the Hynix HYMP512F72CP8D2-C4/Y5 Ram it soon became apparent that the centre processor was 1.2mm higher than the memory chips either side.

Hmmmm........after much head scratching i decided to shim the memory and as luck would have it i had some cheap aluminium heat spreaders which just so happened were 1.2mm thick and already had thermal pads on them.

So i set about cutting eight of them in total (two for each stick of memory) down to 50mm x 15mm which fit perfect.

Just a case of adding them and a little AS5 to the reverse side of the memory and and assemble as normal.

Leaving the actual RAM hex bolts loose so the four individual memory stick could move from side to side in the slots, the whole unit then fitted straight into the board with no problem at all then the hex bolts tightened up.

All in all a bit fiddly but well worth it as it's one of the best machined blocks i've laid eyes on in a long while.

I'll let MIPs know of the issue with this particular RAM so they could maybe machining some heat spreaders for this memory which would be easy for them to do and make life much easier for anyone else in this situation.

Still not linked hose up yet but its been running fine for the last few hours so all is well but looking forward to see if it actually works.

Also today, my good mate Tom also picked the 2 chassis up this morning and it should be back here Tuesday so i can start getting it re-assembled(mines the black one)

Anyway, a few pictures as usual..........BTW the 3rd but last picture shows the copper/brass version along side the copper/brass nickel plate one i'm using.

http://www.coolercases.co.uk/skull/mip_1.jpg

http://www.coolercases.co.uk/skull/mip_2.jpg

http://www.coolercases.co.uk/skull/mip_3.jpg

http://www.coolercases.co.uk/skull/mip_4.jpg

http://www.coolercases.co.uk/skull/mip_5.jpg

http://www.coolercases.co.uk/skull/mip_6.jpg

http://www.coolercases.co.uk/skull/mip_7.jpg

http://www.coolercases.co.uk/skull/mip_8.jpg

http://www.coolercases.co.uk/skull/mip_9.jpg

http://www.coolercases.co.uk/skull/mip_10.jpg

http://www.coolercases.co.uk/skull/mip_11.jpg

http://www.coolercases.co.uk/skull/mip_12.jpg

http://www.coolercases.co.uk/skull/mip_14.jpg

http://www.coolercases.co.uk/skull/skull_72.jpg

Nice save there mate! That Ram Freezer looks stunning.

wow nice ram cooler

What can I say... just pwn3d ^^

that wb top is nice :)

Not sure if this is in the shops yet but the nice people at Coolermaster sent me a couple of their new Ultimate UCP 1100W PSU's to play with so got one hooked up to the Skulltrail already and is working a charm............very very quiet :up:

Also Zotac contacted me this morning and have another GX2 being shipped for tomorrow so i can eventually get this HUGE chunk of copper strapped to them (weighing in at 2180g i think they will need some kind of support made) ;)

http://www.coolercases.co.uk/skull/ultimate_1.jpg

http://www.coolercases.co.uk/skull/ultimate_2.jpg

http://www.coolercases.co.uk/skull/ultimate_3.jpg

http://www.coolercases.co.uk/skull/ultimate_4.jpg

http://www.coolercases.co.uk/skull/skull_73.jpg