09/10 Project

[Aphellyon]

+1 braces... I think. Could you possibly include a non-macro'd shot of 'em with your next pics post?... like the in-case shot you took before the lathing was finished.

Hope the finger's better... man that looked kinda bad.

[josk1]

Good enough for me . Thanks for checking in again, josk1. (ps i wish you were my doc!!)

ha ha you would come only for my pc and lead me to play with it... then i'd loose time and money and incidentally i'd pay less attention to real patients... no good idea mate!!

by the way, i'm intending to do a new set of photos (good ones this time) soon... i'll let you know!

[manu_D]

Hello Callen,

I take a lot of pleasure to follow your blog. It is generous from your part to present how you use machines and results which you obtain. The blog asks for the work and to spend time besides the efforts used in the construction of the case.
I find that your blog is an educational guide for all those who have capacities for the manual labor, but who do not know how to proceed - it is my case! There are works into which I would never have ventured but which I go, in the future, approach with confidence on the basis of your indications. You return possible things. I want to thank you.
I do not ask you to sacrifice your skin. I prefer to you healthy. OK, you go to answer me that you too!
I wait for this moment when in your case the water is going to circulate and the plexi be illuminated. I think that there will be something ever seen previously!
Good continuation.

[callen_1]

Thanks for the answer!

Anyone else find it a huge HUGE tease to see "Last reply : callen_1" before you click on the thread and come to look and there are no pictures.

THUS

From this moment forward - Every reply from you callen must have a picture. I don't care if its a picture of the fish you catch. Your audience is upon you!

(hehehehehe )

Well i'll try my best but no promises. I can guarantee a pic next post though, so i guess that's better than nothing

+1 braces... I think. Could you possibly include a non-macro'd shot of 'em with your next pics post?... like the in-case shot you took before the lathing was finished.

Hope the finger's better... man that looked kinda bad.

I'll stick one in the next update for ya, mate

The finger's good too, the nail fell of though

ha ha you would come only for my pc and lead me to play with it... then i'd loose time and money and incidentally i'd pay less attention to real patients... no good idea mate!!

by the way, i'm intending to do a new set of photos (good ones this time) soon... i'll let you know!

No way, i wouldn't do that to you!! honestly .

And please, let me know when you have the new pics up

Hello Callen,

I take a lot of pleasure to follow your blog. It is generous from your part to present how you use machines and results which you obtain. The blog asks for the work and to spend time besides the efforts used in the construction of the case.
I find that your blog is an educational guide for all those who have capacities for the manual labor, but who do not know how to proceed - it is my case! There are works into which I would never have ventured but which I go, in the future, approach with confidence on the basis of your indications. You return possible things. I want to thank you.
I do not ask you to sacrifice your skin. I prefer to you healthy. OK, you go to answer me that you too!
I wait for this moment when in your case the water is going to circulate and the plexi be illuminated. I think that there will be something ever seen previously!
Good continuation.

Thank you, manu. I really do hope i've helped someone somewhere, and if not, i appologize for all the pics .

I also hope to stay healthy in the future too, so i appreciate the concern, mate

[callen_1]

Hey everyone, I did a little work today so i have a little update.

I needed a way to route the sata cables to the front of the case, but i didn't want it to look messy or out of
place, so this is what i came up with -
















The sata cables leave the motherboard sockets parallel/flat to the motherboard tray (you will see what i mean in
a pic further down) but they will be twisted 90 degrees so they can sit in the grooves i just cut. To allow for this
i had to rout out a bit more acrylic on the left edge -




The sata cables fit very snug when the cover is on, so i wont be able to sleeve the entire cable. Instead, what
i'll do is sleeve only the parts that will be seen, and rout a little more off of the right side channels (see below).
This way the edge of the sleeve and heat shrink will sit inside the channel and hopefully give the appearance
that the whole cable is sleeved -




So here's the whole thing -




And here's how they fit -










The following shot just shows the acrylic slots installed too, and a non-macro shot of the GPU stands for
Aphellyon -




Now all i need is the right sized sata cables and i can install the SSDs


That's all for now, but I've got some more time so i'll get back to work


Thanks for checking, guys and gals,

Callen

[ohms]

Man that sh*t looks sick put together, all you need now is some nice black SATA cables

Truly a work of art Callen, someone has blessed you and Kibbler with some serious crafting skills.

Just a couple of questions if you don't mind,

#1 Are you planning on leaving it that silver color or do you plan on powder coating or anodizing it?
#2 How heavy is the case? I can't imagine it being that heavy.
#3 Was it easy to make the video card prop up bar?

[-Whiteroom-]

Amazing work.

[manu_D]

Callen, you are right to stop a little, because we are tired! It is nervous

[Nashaz]

Love how your rig is shaping out m8!
Cant wait for to see the finished product!

[manu_D]

What a work! It is really attractive!
Inhale profoundly Callen, there is no need tu hurry.

[illectrik]

This is very impressive and inspiring. I can see this on MDPC already lol.

So far, just about how expensive was it (not including the tools) to make this sick case?

[RCG_Bex]

Damn that's smart - it's better than how I pulled it off in my case - very impressive!

~Bex

[Wezly]

Wow.... Lian Li thinks of everything!

Very well done sir, as usual.

[amagriva]

Wow! What a build...
I like very much your lathe-made case feet; why don't you "enrich" them with some o-rings on the grooves (you could use the blue UV reactive ones to match your color scheme) Or you could just leave them as they are, they're damn cool!
Ciao

[Boulard83]

I really like this mod. The GPU stand of is an awesome idea too !

[mattlef]

Your attention to detail is just stunning as always. I'm also VERY jealous of your workshop. A student can only dream lol

[nlancaster]

Yes the GPU stand is awesome. I have a cut down bic pen body doing that in my case right now, your is much better Callen.

[voigts]

I go out of town for a few days and wow, what an update. Incredible attention to detail as always. Your workshop space looks great. I would recommend adding pegboard to the walls so that you can hang up all of your tool do-das. I did and it makes keeping up with tools a whole lot easier.

I haven't done a build yet where i haven't shed some kind of blood on it. Somehow, someway I manage to at least cut myself.

It looks like you are going to be able to do some sweet things with that lathe. I really like those case feet.

I'm going to depart from the others though and say that I'm not crazy about the GPU supports. The ones I have always made use more of the cardkeeper approach in that they support from the PCI panel screws and run the length of the card. I find this to give much cleaner lines. If made out of alu they can be very thin and yet get the job done. As much work as you've done on this case, you really could have just completely built it from scratch.

[Armitage]

Great work, I have a couple questions myself

Where do you plan to put all the watercooling equipment? So much room is taken up by your mods. I can't even visualize where it's all going to go!

I think everyone else already asked the rest of my questions

[D1RtY AssASS1n]

Cant wait till the next update

[illidan]

Callen amazing work!

[The_Gnu]

uhm.. I don't know what to say. I've been reading straight through and realised my mouth was wide open in the end. You stunned me with your skills. Ive never realised that what you create was possible to do with a router. Subscribed.. :P

[callen_1]

Man that sh*t looks sick put together, all you need now is some nice black SATA cables

Truly a work of art Callen, someone has blessed you and Kibbler with some serious crafting skills.

Just a couple of questions if you don't mind,

#1 Are you planning on leaving it that silver color or do you plan on powder coating or anodizing it?
#2 How heavy is the case? I can't imagine it being that heavy.
#3 Was it easy to make the video card prop up bar?

Cheers, Ohms. AS for your questions -

#1 - I have 4 options here but haven't decided what i want to do yet. I have a pretty good idea but i'll save the details for another update

#2 - very heavy

#3 - The prop up bar was actually pretty easy to make. Now that i know what i'm doing it wouldn't take too long at all.

Amazing work.

Thank you, -Whiteroom-

Callen, you are right to stop a little, because we are tired! It is nervous

What a work! It is really attractive!
Inhale profoundly Callen, there is no need tu hurry.

Thanks, mate. And your right, it's best not to rush these things!

Love how your rig is shaping out m8!
Cant wait for to see the finished product!

I can't wait either. There's a lot more work to do but hopefully it won't take too long! Cheers, Nashaz

This is very impressive and inspiring. I can see this on MDPC already lol.

So far, just about how expensive was it (not including the tools) to make this sick case?

Honestly, i've lost track. You can probably work out the cost of the components and WC gear but as far as the case goes, it would be well in the thousands by now . A lot of the costs go into raw materials though, and i now have plenty spare for other projects. Sorry i can't help you more than that, mate.

Damn that's smart - it's better than how I pulled it off in my case - very impressive!

~Bex

Thanks, I'll be sure to check your method too, bex. Anyway, we don't all have routers to do this sort of stuff

Wow.... Lian Li thinks of everything!

Very well done sir, as usual.

Yeah it would be nice if these big case manufacturers could come up with some better cable management solutions besides a few holes and some rubber grommets!

Cheers, Wezly

Wow! What a build...
I like very much your lathe-made case feet; why don't you "enrich" them with some o-rings on the grooves (you could use the blue UV reactive ones to match your color scheme) Or you could just leave them as they are, they're damn cool!
Ciao

Thank you, amagriva. I'm happy with the feet too! I'm not sure how i'll finish them off yet, but i'll work something out soon

I really like this mod. The GPU stand of is an awesome idea too !

Thanks, Boulard83. I apreciate it, mate

Your attention to detail is just stunning as always. I'm also VERY jealous of your workshop. A student can only dream lol

I take my hat off to you students that still mod your pc's. It must be incredibly hard, what with the cost of everything these days and the little time you must have. Your welcome to join me in my shop any time

Yes the GPU stand is awesome. I have a cut down bic pen body doing that in my case right now, your is much better Callen.

I had a coat hanger hanging from the roof in my last pc , I like this one much better . Thanks, bud.

I go out of town for a few days and wow, what an update. Incredible attention to detail as always. Your workshop space looks great. I would recommend adding pegboard to the walls so that you can hang up all of your tool do-das. I did and it makes keeping up with tools a whole lot easier.

I haven't done a build yet where i haven't shed some kind of blood on it. Somehow, someway I manage to at least cut myself.

It looks like you are going to be able to do some sweet things with that lathe. I really like those case feet.

I'm going to depart from the others though and say that I'm not crazy about the GPU supports. The ones I have always made use more of the cardkeeper approach in that they support from the PCI panel screws and run the length of the card. I find this to give much cleaner lines. If made out of alu they can be very thin and yet get the job done. As much work as you've done on this case, you really could have just completely built it from scratch.

I've actually got some of that pegboard above the old desk i used to work on, just waiting to be moved. I really have been meaning to do that . I also bought a bunch of those little plastic drawer sets for all my router bits, drill bits and screws, so that should help too.

I'm always nicking myself on stuff too, my hands are covered in little cut, but nothing like that last one. I always manage to bump it or drop things on it too! It's like everything is attracted to that 1 finger Good thing it's all healed now, minus a nail though.

Your not alone on the GPU stand subject either. I'm still debating on whether to use them. The hole in the mid-plate cover can be easily welded so there's no problem there, but to be honest, when your actually looking at them in person i think they look good in there. When they were fat they looked rubbish, but since they were slimmed down i've completely changed my mind. I'm going to wait until they're finished an then make a decision. I'll definitely be taking into account people's opinion too, especially people with your creativity and skill!

And yes, i should have started from scratch, please don't remind me

Great work, I have a couple questions myself

Where do you plan to put all the watercooling equipment? So much room is taken up by your mods. I can't even visualize where it's all going to go!

I think everyone else already asked the rest of my questions

It all fit's snugly in place, you'll just have to trust me . I have the res up top, the pumps and a rad down the bottom, another rad in the front and tubing everywhere

Cant wait till the next update

Hopefully not too long . Thank, D.A.

Callen amazing work!

Thanks, sir

uhm.. I don't know what to say. I've been reading straight through and realised my mouth was wide open in the end. You stunned me with your skills. Ive never realised that what you create was possible to do with a router. Subscribed.. :P

I was surprised at how much you could do with these routers too! It all started because i wanted to make a custom res, then i realised how many different types of bits there were and started trying new things. Never looked back since . I'd still love a mill though, maybe one day And i've seen what you've been doing with your mill and lathe, VERY impressive, mate



Shouldn't be long and i'll have another little update.

Thanks, guys

[S3RV0]

This build is very inspirational to say the least.

[Oli4v]

Inspirational stuff callen

oh and How long are those 5870's ? 'cause naked pcb is shorter than with the aircooler