700D carbon fibre build: Blackbox II
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Yep I really didn't think it through, I was going to leave the stock grills in but if they made any noise or impacted performance I wouldn't be happy, so took them out as an after thought despite months of mental planning, after applying the vinyl.
Cleaning all the steel dust out is going to be interesting...
The LED tape is 3M stuff, surface mounted etc as normal, don't know what else to say. The actual area of light produced on the LED is small but they are very bright!
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Looking good, looking forward to more pictures 
Looking good, looking forward to more pictures
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Looking good so far mate. Keep it coming
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very nice, cant wait to see more piccies and the finished article......getting some inspiration from these threads for my next build.....
I wish they did these in 120mm sizes. I wanted to replace the vent on the side of my HAF932 with one of them but a 140mm is too big. Must have cost you a fortune!
gundog they do 120mm! i've got two 140's and a 360 for up top.
ohhh yes getting these cost loads, especially after customs got through with it.
was it worth it? yes for me as nothing else would work for my idea, heck its cheaper than some designer clothes with far more engineering!
just been rounding off the rear intake with discs and file and applying more internal carbon now...pics later this evening
ohhh yes getting these cost loads, especially after customs got through with it.
was it worth it? yes for me as nothing else would work for my idea, heck its cheaper than some designer clothes with far more engineering!
just been rounding off the rear intake with discs and file and applying more internal carbon now...pics later this evening
Fantastic! How much did customs charge you?
I had forgotten to sort out the rear intake! Measuring it up...:
Marked with pencil:
Marked with disc:
Cutting:
Out:
Smoothed a bit:
Fan is happy, I am happy:
More internal carbon:
May as well face my fear and do the rear section:
It came out ok:
Finally time to do the top:
After some heat-gun treatment:
Cutting it all out, looks convincing in person that its composite:
Happy with the corners, some aren't perfect where the vinyl 'pinched' but overall they are better for being seamless I feel:
mmm:
so far:
had to file down the GT's to get the bleeding rad screw through, so 12 times in all, but did it in under 15 mins:
Installing backlighting:
All for now, I've since cut out the PCI slots so that they are not totally covered in vinyl, in essence the case should now be ready for components and watercooling.
Long day tomorrow so no progress i'm afraid
Marked with pencil:
Marked with disc:
Cutting:
Out
:
Smoothed a bit:
Fan is happy, I am happy:
More internal carbon:
May as well face my fear and do the rear section:
It came out ok:
Finally time to do the top:
After some heat-gun treatment:
Cutting it all out, looks convincing in person that its composite
:
Happy with the corners, some aren't perfect where the vinyl 'pinched' but overall they are better for being seamless I feel:
mmm:
so far:
had to file down the GT's to get the bleeding rad screw through, so 12 times in all, but did it in under 15 mins:
Installing backlighting:
All for now, I've since cut out the PCI slots so that they are not totally covered in vinyl, in essence the case should now be ready for components and watercooling.
Long day tomorrow so no progress i'm afraid
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