Project :::: PermaFrost :::: (New Project name, formerly SNiiPE's PC-P80)

[SNiiPE_DoGG]

Some pics I took today while down at the machine shop, and in my room, just thought I'd go the whole nine yards and put every picture up on this thread that I can take.

My new favorite toy, Tresna 300mm scale digital calipers, so useful, instant unit conversion and super accurate measurements = win.



An example cutout from the CNC plasma cutter, this is an excess sheet but in case you couldn't tell its a mudflap girl. this is NOT going into my build but something similar.



A crappy flash macro of the piece showing the cut, not exactly up to what I wanted as far as how clean the cut is....





Overall I think I will be pursuing purchasing some time on the school waterjet cutter for the clean finish I am looking for on my side panel, I have just sent an email to the head of the Advanced Manufacturing Laboratory @ RPI on the subject and I should hear back in a few days.



Now where is Cyberdruid.... he should have some pics of my case powdercoated very very soon....

[SpazBoy357]

Thanks for the info on the sleeving, SNiiPE. Going to look into the color selection for ideas. That's some great looking stuff.

*EDIT* Boo! The Acrylic Coated sleeving only comes in Black, White, and Natural. But they have something they call "Fray Resistant" Fiberglass Sleeving that comes in Black, Natural, Red, and Yellow. Odd thing is that they show a Blue sample, but don't offer it as a choice.

[inCore]

I'm liking the ideas, custom side panels rock. I made a square with a jigsaw and that was hard enough for me to pull off, looks like a six year old with the coordination of a cow went at it in some places.

If you have access to a waterjet then I'd go for it, what kind of prices to they charge?

Also, I'm not sure if you've heard about the fee associated with quoting me in sigs...

[SNiiPE_DoGG]

I'm liking the ideas, custom side panels rock. I made a square with a jigsaw and that was hard enough for me to pull off, looks like a six year old with the coordination of a cow went at it in some places.

If you have access to a waterjet then I'd go for it, what kind of prices to they charge?

Also, I'm not sure if you've heard about the fee associated with quoting me in sigs...

its $27 an hour for me as a student at RPI but as it is a personal project I get backlogged until there is free time on the cutter :\ it may be a few weeks until I get the panel pics posted up here.

and yes I thoroughly enjoyed reading that post so you got the honor of first person I have ever quoted in my sig



General update: As I alluded to in earlier posts, the case should be coming back from the powdercoater's next week, then Cyber druid should have pics for me/this thread

this is the work I had cyberdruid do for me as I am at school and I don't have space in my dorm room to setup a workbench:

case all ready for the powder facility:


as a prelude this is the color I got for the coat and all interior elements of the case are being coated including the mesh of the front door so it should be very pretty

[initialised]

I realize I will need 90's but it looks like a good time EH? this will be for my CPU look with dual DDCs

I have a similar set up in a system I'm working on, a pair of stacked 240s in the top of a HAF 932. I got away with it by having inlets at opposite ends and using spanners and hex headed screws.

[inCore]

its $27 an hour for me as a student at RPI but as it is a personal project I get backlogged until there is free time on the cutter :\ it may be a few weeks until I get the panel pics posted up here.

and yes I thoroughly enjoyed reading that post so you got the honor of first person I have ever quoted in my sig

27 aint cheap but a lot cheaper than what CyberDruid is doing for you right now. Guess it's fine as long as you have it all planned and you know what you're doing.

Why thank you sir, was a pleasure. I'm on a mission to 1) Become an internet celebrity and 2) Make this forum a happier place. Spread the wealth.

Looking forward to your updates.

[lifeismusic434]

Hey, may I ask where you go the adapter/shroud things? I can't seem to find a good place to buy shrouds, and I don't really want to make my own.

[SNiiPE_DoGG]

for the gtx420 I bought some aerocool 140mm fans that came with the blue plastic adapter, lol $20 a pop ain't cheap but it works

[Chris_redfield]

I have only just noticed this thread.

What you are doing looks fantastic, but I was wondering if you had seen the BEAST Aphros systems. They have started using this case but have customised them to fit their new paraflow liquid cooling. Its very similar to what you are doing only rather than sandwiching two 240mm rads together they mount one on either side of the front of the case and use the 140mm fans to draw air into a chamber and then push the air back out either side of the two rads.

The temperatures of that system are fantastic and they are just using a single loop with three 240mm XSPC radiators so the radiators themselves aren't that expensive.

There is a news article here http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=15804

And if you look at the Hexus forum the Beast engineer steps in to answer a few questions.http://forums.hexus.net/hexus-net/14...xtreme-pc.html

I realise you don't want to copy and you want to follow your own design I just thought that those articles might make interesting reading for you.

Congrats on the work so far I will be following this thread with great interest, the P80 is a highly underated case and I'm lookingn forward to seeing your results.

[SNiiPE_DoGG]

hmmm never seen that It looks like they did a great job with their setup, I like how their panel came out

I considered doing something very similar with 320mm rads originally but decided against it because I found this 420gtx.

I will be boxing off areas in my case, you will see more of that in december

[Chris_redfield]

I can't wait to see it, or the finished panel, I like your design.

[Jor3lBR]

Wheres Powder Coated Case Pics!

[SNiiPE_DoGG]

Wheres Powder Coated Case Pics!

Cyberdruid just PMed me that hes going to pick up the case RIGHT NOW

[SNiiPE_DoGG]

All of this thanks to:
CyberDruid's
Excellent Powdercoat Service (link, click to see service thread!)

It's perfect and the color is MUCH whiter than it appears in some of the pics!

Photo credit goes to CyberDruid as well

[BlueAqua]

Very nice looking powdercoat job. This will be nice to see it progress.

[SNiiPE_DoGG]

Very nice looking powdercoat job. This will be nice to see it progress.

you just wait till I get it assembled in the photo studio with the Cannon D1S MkIII on a grey backbround!

I'm sure you will appreciate it greatly

[HaCKs]

How much did he charge you for the powder coating?

It looks flawless!

[SNiiPE_DoGG]

How much did he charge you for the powder coating?

375 but it is a very expensive color

[evil-98]

the white is very nice

lets see those studio shots!

[Ashraf]

Very nice! Reminds me of pearls.

[evil-98]

Very nice! Reminds me of pearls.

well it is in a pearl white

[MINIz guy]

Very nice! Did you send CyberDruid the whole case and have him take it apart or did you take it apart and send him just that frame (thing shown in the pictures).

[SNiiPE_DoGG]

the white is very nice

lets see those studio shots!

I'm not home yet , sorry but those wont come till thanksgiving

Very nice! Did you send CyberDruid the whole case and have him take it apart or did you take it apart and send him just that frame (thing shown in the pictures).

I sent him the case as you see it a few posts above and he:

- sandblasted the parts that were chromed by Lian-Li.
- disassembled it for the powder facility.
- re-assembled it for shipping to me.

[zlojack]

Beautiful.

[CyberDruid]

My Powershot does not really captuire the pearlescent effect well. To the nekkid eyebulb it is exactly like pearls...very subtle with an opalescent sheen and some fine grained metallic sparkle. It's tough as hell too

Thanks for the work man! That is going to look disturbed once you get all the black in there to contrast it.