Quote Originally Posted by alphadog009 View Post
excellent! when you start a build with a lathe and mill you know its gonna get good! i really like the led ring idea and cant wait to see what else you have up your sleeve. +1 for leaving some surprises into the build... its way more interesting that way
Yeah a lathe and mill is a greate addition to the workshop. The possibilities are almost endless of what you can make compared to standard hand tools. Takes some practice and skill though.


It's about time to finish this DVD drive so I can continue with the rest of the case.

Here is the LED ring again if you forgotten about it.

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It is mounted to the outside of the drive window with the magnetic disc holder on the inside. All the taped holes are lined up and screwed together in place using three hex screws.

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The wire for the LED ring is feed along a cut channel in the plastic on the internal case (red circle) and feed through to the other side of the case where it is soldered to the original LED connections.

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The whole case is assembled and the dvd drive is finaly done.

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Yay it works...

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Doing a testspinn with a disk.. and it works fine.

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As you can see the red plexi blocks out some of the light from the White led's, but that was expected. These photos where taken in bright daylight with sun shining in to the room. Therefore it was hard to get a fair picture of the light. The LED ring light is much more evenly lit in reality. Next time I'm at the workshop I will try to get a couple of nightshots to show the lighting better..

There you have it, the result of way to much time spent on a DVD drive. But anyway I'm satisfied with the result and I hope you like it.

Time for the rest of the case..