Quote Originally Posted by tomb18 View Post
Nice job! I've read all of these MM threads so far but the one thing I haven't found out yet, is how much does powder coating cost? In particular, I notice that you powdercoated all of the non painted TJ07 parts. How much did this cost?
Also, I guess all of the compnents in the TJ07 are riveted? These are drilled out with a 1/8" drill? How do you re-rivet the parts? Any special tool?

Thanks!
Powdercoating the internal parts has cost me €85,- but i have to say the powdercoating on the M|M parts looked better. It's still nice though.

Only the pci slots/io-shield part is riveted and the mobotray rail is rivited, you can drill them out with a 3mm drill.

Putting it back together is done with a rivet tool.

Here's a quick shot at how it looks now, you can see the hideous red sata cables and the unsleeved PCI-e powercable.



Gonna sleeve that cable tonite.

The display:



How's that for dedication?