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[Darkninja462]

Anyway to an Update ***

Well haven't worked on the case as its still at school however found some pictures from Friday when I made my first join/tap :

Checking the Bolt fits:

Final Shot Of The Bar In Place:

Side View Of Bar In Place:

My Workstation for that lunch :

Many Thanks

Ninja

 

[Darkninja462]

This looks epic! Good on you for doing it.

thanks mate
I'm looking to order sheet aluminium very soon then I will be well under way

Ninja

 

[Darkninja462]

Looking good! I definitely wouldn't have the patience for this

lolm I don't either really just the fact I can't get to it during the night is the thing that stops me rushing

Ninja

 

[Darkninja462]

Nearly done one side of my case now just got 1 bolt left to do which will be tomorrow hopefully

Ninja

 

[Darkninja462]

:O i really want to see this finished after sitting looking at all the pictures

Yea I want to get as much done before I break up for the summer and Yea I'm kinda a Picture whore

Ninja

 

[Darkninja462]

Update ***

Well did loads today, got one of the side frames done and 75% of the second

Well here is the pictures from the first one (forgot to take pictures of the second one ):

Sorry for little update but at least I'm getting there

Ninja

 

[Darkninja462]

Looking good dude

Stratch built cases take an awful long time to do

Yea well worth it though (well should be )

Ninja

 

[Darkninja462]

thats going to be soooooooooooo damn big

haha yea it really is, well it comes above my hips and I'm not exactly small being 6' 3" rolf will be good though

Ninja

 

[Darkninja462]

haha rolf I have a TT armour atm and I though that would last me a while rolf

Ninja

 

[Darkninja462]

Well he did post images of his dimentioned CAD model - it's just that no-one said why do you need a 730x710x250mm case

Intergrated screen maybe - somewere to house 200 LED maybe - gerbil wheel secondary power supply... Looking forward to the answer.

Loving the oldschool metal detailing at the juctions - that baby is build to last
Keep the updates coming, and there's no such thing as to many pictures

Haha I agree I love looking through the pictures great fun (Gives Me Ideas) and reason for being so big is for water cooling at bottom so I have loads of room to play with and just loads of room and hopefully future proof.

Looking good, can't wait to see the final product

Me Neither

numbers mean nothing to me, need to see things in person... and now I have... geeeeez its a big case haha

Will at least mean theres plenty of room to work in there... and like you said, will be able to stick a nice monitor in the side haha

nice work though ninja, keep up the good work

Thanks for the positive comments

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Update ***

Completed both the side sections today and one of the crossbars so progress is going good will need to get on milling machine tomorrow though so I can keep the progress steady then I can do 95% of the bars to completion so frame should be done In a week *fingers crossed*

Many Thanks

Ninja

 

[Darkninja462]

**Update (well lil one)

Have done both the side squares and finished all the cross bars today so will begin bolting them together tomorrow, looking good so far

Ninja

 

[Darkninja462]

**Update Major One

Well had some rather nice surprises today, got my sheet aluminum through in the post , and did tonnes of work on the case today and nearly finished the frame work

Now on to the pictures :
Opening Of My Parcel('s)

Well started the day by laying out my new aluminum round my case.
Without the top panel on:

With top panel on:

All boxed up:

Anyway back to the construction:

Little mock up of the outer frame
Front:

Side:

4 Taps/Bolts Later:

In the afternoon moved onto the cross bars

Mock up of them:

After doing 3 more Taps/Bolts:

My first war wound from this case, I get the feeling its starting to hate me

Thanks To All

Ninja

 

[Darkninja462]

Looking very impressive. Bet it weighs a fair bit!

How are you going to attach the aluminium sheet to the frame?

Using M4 Allen Button Bolts , 100 of them should be arriving tomorrow

Like thses but smaller (M4 x 10mm to be precise):

Ninja

 

[Darkninja462]

Yeah - you can rotate images 90 degrees in photobucket editing...

ahh ok thanks for the heads up

will rearrange them next time

Ninja

 

[Darkninja462]

Have you thought of forgetting the side panels altogether, save for the motherboard tray, however you plan to mount that? I'll be honest, with these chunky frame custom cases I awlays think they look better with the innards on display so to speak. As soon as you put side panels on they look a bit too home-made if you get me, especially when things start bending and flexing, unless you have mega diy skills that is. Amittedly the ones I have seen like this and like the look of all have the mobo tray horizontal in the case, such that it lends itself to having fully open sides. Just a thought.

how do you mean horizontal btw ?

Ninja

 

[Darkninja462]

motherboard tray is going to mounted on rails so it slides in and out of the back, and haven't got round to thinking bout HDD tray, if worst comes to worst ill buy a Lian Li one for a bit, but thinking bout getting one CNC'd for me using sheet aluminum.

Ninja

 

[Darkninja462]

Its been along time many hours/exams/days have past since I started now is time for the update.

Finally got hold of a motherboard tray, now in my possession not letting anyone take it
ordered the some more aluminium so now have the lenghts to make the CD-Tray bay, more bolts to fit side panels on, new camera to take some decent shots

Hope to be keeping you a lot more up to date

Ninja

 

[Darkninja462]

The time has come to update OcUK Form with the details of the build I know I said I would have updated it a very long time ago now however I have my reasons but now is not the time to go into this.

Times have moved on things have been upgraded, I am now in presence of a better mind set. Moving on from my naivety off "its good enough", which lead me to look back over what I had done and think what utter rubbish I had made, completely off square. . . things not flush with each other etc. . . this I would like to add is not all completely my fault some of the bars had twisted over time.

So due to this I stripped everything down and started again, squaring off ends and joints, re-tapping holes to get them flush re-setting each side frame dead square and same lengths as the other. This did leave me with a loss width wise but that's not an major issue and needed to be done.

Once this was sorted it allowed me to rivet the external panels onto the case giving it some structure and cross beams for added support. My custom ATX removable motherboard tray arrived finally after 18 months of waiting for it.

The motherboard tray slot has been cut within the case so it now slides in as it is meant to, ATX PSU hole has been cut in the rear of the case so PSU now fits into it.

Work then stopped due to my University January exams.

The intermediate aluminium plates where still in their original sizes so the corners needed to be altered to allow them to slot into the case. This is where my new toy comes into play decided that it was about time I treated myself to a Dremel and by god I am so glad I did has allowed me to proceed much more than I anticipated.

I have now cut all but one of my intermediate plates meaning that the whole project is now taking shape.

I am now planning to cut the last plate this week sometime. On another route I have bent into place a HDD rack and have ordered a fabricated 5.25" Bays holder (Hopefully wont get into to much trouble here) from Mountain Mods, this will arrive at some point silly USPS. So that will be fitted at some point when it arrives.

Additional Info: Was a Dremel 4000 that I purchased.

Sorry for those people that had lost their faith in this project log but will have it back on track soon, pictures will be coming up if anyone wants pictures of specific things let me know or if you want me to go over details/processes of things I have done just leave a message.

Regards
-Ninja

 

[Darkninja462]

Update: Pictures

Everybody loves pictures so this is what this post will all be about, the following images will show the current state as of this morning which the case is in.

Caption: Showing all but one plate taped into position to give an overview of the case.

Caption: Showing top section of the case.

Caption: Showing mid and lower section of the case (Bottom section is missing a plate).

Caption: Showing motherboard tray cutout in mid section.

Caption: Showing PSU cutout in lower section.

Caption: Showing Rear of case looking down.

Caption: Showing rear of case both motherboard and PSU cutouts.

Caption: Showing top mid section top and bottom plates taped into place.

Caption: Showing top mid section plate fitting round corner column.

Caption: Showing top mid section plate butting up to the rear panel.

Caption: Showing rivet attaching outside panels, (These are in the process of being removed and replaced with M4 bolts.

Caption: Showing PSU (bog standard one that was laying around) fitted to the case outside view.

Caption: Showing PSU fitted to the case inside view.

Caption: Showing custom fabricated motherboard tray back view.

Caption: Showing inside view.

Caption: Showing motherboard tray fitted to case outside view.

Caption: Showing motherboard tray fitted to case inside view.

Caption: Showing motherboard tray mounting rail concept 1 overview.

Caption: showing motherboard tray mounting rail concept 1 close up.

Caption: showing motherboard tray mounting rail concept 2 overview.

Caption: Showing motherboard tray mounting rail concept 2 close up.

The last 4 images are concept ideas for how to make this and will consist of solid piece of bar and then a U profile extrusion of aluminium like the one shown. So that the motherboard tray cannot move once slotted in.

Hope you enjoy the pictures and the update.

If you want to check out the images at larger resolution check out the flick set in the following link: Link Here

Little Update: Just had a little stint on a local auction site (not strictly competition as engineering supplies) but awaiting some new drill bits as broke a few drilling out rivets earlier, and some shiny marine grade A4 stainless bolts which should look awesome

Regards
-Ninja

 

[Darkninja462]

Update: Shiny Package Arrived!

Had a surprise this morning to get a delivery which was supposed to be still in Los Angeles

Oh well not really important just glad it is here

5.25" x5 Drive Bay:

This is a welcome sight can finally mark up where it should be, I think I will be going just above flush (On the inside) with the bottom mid plate any thoughts on this ? rather than dead in the middle or flush with the top inside.

Regards
-Ninja