Powdercoating my Cosmos?

[TedShred]

oooooo that green looks awesome!

Although that green looks very glossy... dont know if you'll be able to achieve that with a powerder coat?

JM

PS, thanks for the pics

You bet. Yeah, I'm thinkin' of using powdercoat just for a base, then finish off with paint.

As an aside, one powdercoat shop told me the other day that they can mix up some paint to match the powdercoat, so afterwards you can match-up the plastic parts with a rattle can.

[xdrift0rx]

and here is the PC im on now since that one is dead...

reluctantly i ordered this 2 days prior to the strike as something to toy around with..and now its my main system. kinda sucks but its not bad.

e7200 @ 3.9ghz
DFI P35
4gb of mushkin ddr2 1000 (taken from my better PC for the time being)
7900GS

my video card block i had was leaking in my test before i put it in so i only had a cpu block...it still keeps it nice at sub-40c temps.

[TedShred]

Oh, man... that sucks about the lightning

But, yeah, it turned out really nice! The silver HDD handles look great against the black caddies.

I'm curious about a couple things:

- how did p-coating the hdd caddies go? I'm wondering particularly about those little clear plastic shims on the top/bottom of 'em. And, since powdercoating would add a bit of thickness to the caddy and the hdd cage itself, maybe you don't need to (maybe can't?) put them back on for the nice tight fit? (I got a real heat gun and ended up melting a couple of the shims in the removal process.)

- do you have an intake fan? (Looks like you took out the stock one to mount the D5)

And also about how the mallet thing works out for loosening up the panel attachment thingies.

Nice job! (stupid lightning!)

edit: fwiw, and maybe you considered this already, but this is a pic, stolen from Performance PC's, of a D5 in a Cosmos 1000 mounted against the hdd cage with one of the (older model) un-design brackets. Gets a nice breeze from the stock intake.

[xdrift0rx]

Oh, man... that sucks about the lightning

But, yeah, it turned out really nice! The silver HDD handles look great against the black caddies.

I'm curious about a couple things:

- how did p-coating the hdd caddies go? I'm wondering particularly about those little clear plastic shims on the top/bottom of 'em. And, since powdercoating would add a bit of thickness to the caddy and the hdd cage itself, maybe you don't need to (maybe can't?) put them back on for the nice tight fit? (I got a real heat gun and ended up melting a couple of the shims in the removal process.)

- do you have an intake fan? (Looks like you took out the stock one to mount the D5)

And also about how the mallet thing works out for loosening up the panel attachment thingies.

Nice job! (stupid lightning!)

edit: fwiw, and maybe you considered this already, but this is a pic, stolen from Performance PC's, of a D5 in a Cosmos 1000 mounted against the hdd cage with one of the (older model) un-design brackets. Gets a nice breeze from the stock intake.

with the hard drive cases i took off the plastic things because i would have had to of anyway, but now they fit snug and i ODNT really plan on taking them in and out often so that isnt a problem.

right now there isnt, but before all this, if you look at the postion of my CD drive, i had enough space to fit a 120mm fan on top that moved air across for my ram nicely.

i took a soft plastic mallet to the hinges and they finally loosened up, they'll need more work but they hold the sides on now at least.

oh and i think i've seen that and i thought about it, but i was actually considering in teh future putting the pump inside the lower 3 hard drive bay slots, and cutting a hole in the front for the 2 hoses, i thought that would be awsome..



i could probably take apart those blue things and paint them myself...i will look into it.

[TedShred]

Excellent info, xdrift0rx, thanks. That's too funny about your idea for stealthing the pump in the hdd cage. I'm planning the same thing, except I may opt for the upper hdd tray. I think there's an XS build log somewhere that had the pump (pumps maybe?) stealthed into the lower hdd - it was very awesome!

[xdrift0rx]

if you look and find it could you let me know? i know how to get one tube in, but the others going to be a pain since its a 90 degree angle in another direction...

[TedShred]

Found it! The very cool "Liquid Mango"

I got mixed up, he used the upper hdd tray:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...=187590&page=2