2006 Cooler Master Mod Competition

Very nice Harib0 - loving the colour & good luck with the respray.
Gutted I'm not in comp any more but even with selling off the extra I'm really overdrawn this month :rolleyes: .

Keep up the good work people - enjoying the progress.
 
The engraving has been done - it's silver, the natural Alu colour, i think

Teaser picture of the test engrave:



The image isn't that clear, but it has been done on the back and the finish of the Alu isn't as good on the back as it is on the front. I should have the panel back tomorrow (very quick turn around) so will do some more pictures
 
So more pictures to update on,

Firstly the billet fan grill - i got 3 of these with the plan to use one on the top blow hole and the other two on the rear, however, they are not quite big enough to fully cover the slots already in the top panel (as you'll see in the picture) and are slightly too large to fit together next to eachother on the back (i've already cut ut and drilled holes so can't change it now so that was a total waste of £30 getting them shipped over from the US - never mind!



The panel has been engraved and looks excellent - has come out a white colour, sorry for crap pictures but i was trying to get a close up:



 
Shame about the fan grills. No way you could make a surround mounting plate to make them fit? Love the engraving though. Where did you get that done?
Edit; You resprayed the side panel yet?
 
messiah khan said:
You resprayed the side panel yet?
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Nope only primed it, Will try and get over my dads at some point over the weekend to sand down, prime some more, sand down again and hopefully get a layer of colour on. Then maybe able to get the second coat of colour on on wednesday and a clear coat
 
212 said:
Imagine if you spelled USB or something wrong!

Looks great, I would just leave the top with the standard fan-grill.
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lol.. friewire.. fieriwire

anyway, I agree, leave the top standard if the grill doesn't fit completely.
 
Well the good thing about laser engraving is that it just burns away the anodising so if something did go wrong or there was a spelling mistake then i could just get it anodised again
 
212 said:
Are you going to mod a 120mm fan in the front? Like the TJ-03 cases?

http://www.silverstonetek.com/products/tj03/interior/tj03.jpg

Check the front fan placement, they just cut out the HDD mounts.

Maybe a cut at the bottom for some extra air for the fan?
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not sure what the point of a 120mm fan is if there is only an 80mm gap - as i wouldn't attempt to make the hole in the front of the case bigger.

There is already a cut in the bottom of the 201 as standard, so that's not really a mod - what you see here is just the stuff i can show without ideas getting copied for the mod comp, there are a couple of things i'm keeping under my hat, they will be revealed once my log has been submitted to CM
 
i would have thought IPA (Isopropyl alcohol) would have been a good cleaner, we go through barrels of the stuff at my place on all the equipment and i work in a microchip cleanroom wafer fab.

Leaves nothing behind.
 
<De@thW!sh> said:
i would have thought IPA (Isopropyl alcohol) would have been a good cleaner, we go through barrels of the stuff at my place on all the equipment and i work in a microchip cleanroom wafer fab.

Leaves nothing behind.
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yeah it's good stuff i use it at work too, but not sure if it's any good with paint though
 
Sorry to hear about your painting problems :( . Looks like etching primer wasnt used, this happened to me when i painted an aluminium silencer. Also Plasticote spray paints are useless in my experience and take ages to dry as well. I would use Halfords spray paint as ive never had any trouble with that.
 
Harib0 said:
yeah it's good stuff i use it at work too, but not sure if it's any good with paint though
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I think it will be as the alcohol evaporates leaving the surface totally clean.
 
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