Computer Worklog-log [Darkninja462]

Darkninja462 · 22 Apr 2009 at 17:56

Well Some updates from today

. Apologies for the poor pictures as my digital camera ran out of battery's before I could even take the first picture (dam sister not charging it

) so had to resort to my 1.3mp phone camera *crap phone*

Aluminium Arrived and had to help the guy get it off the truck lmfao, only just vertically in the room

10ft

some pictures below:
Package:

Out of package:

Ends of the bars:

.

As for my new workshop/work area, here are some of the tools that are at my destructive disposal

:
Milling machine:

Milling machine being operated:

Big pillar drill:

Mini pillar drill:

Hope you like the update

Should have some pictures of the work done on the milling machine today ***Only with the test piece though*** see if it cuts square.

Ninja

***Update @ 19:09***
Here are some of the pictures from the milling machine and squaring off the bars :

They show the ends being squared off after using the milling machine on them.

Ninja

Nick1881 · 22 Apr 2009 at 19:21

Is it just me or are the last 3 pics identical?

Also do you have 2 girls on webcam there? Pics of them too

Darkninja462 · 22 Apr 2009 at 19:25

mr_x_plosion said:
Is it just me or are the last 3 pics identical?

Also do you have 2 girls on webcam there? Pics of them too

To the picture comment so I do just rectified that.

and to your girl comment

yes ones my girlfriend

and the other is a mate of mine

Ninja

Darkninja462 · 22 Apr 2009 at 19:52

The main light colour for the case will be blue, mainly becuase I'm like addicted to the colour :S this lead to my second addiction a well know auction site

so I was able to pick up some "Ultra birght 5mm Blue LED's" for bout 9p each. 200 of them to be precise.

These will serve various purposes through the build, I might use all of them I might not will depends on the use of them

Well being a normal human being I like LED's but the full on glare you get from normal LED's can sometimes drive me mad especially directly on the front of case's so I had a think about how I could solve this problem with the materials I would be using, and came up with this idea to give a diffused glow across the front of the case. Like so :

This then led me to work on the prototype bar that I used to practice taps/drilling/etc.

In my opinion came out with some quite astounding results that worked way better than I ever had expected.

Simple setup after drilling the 5mm holes:

The 2 LED's rigged up ready for testing in the dark:

Using one LED on results:

Using two LED's on results:

Don't worry about the fact you can see the base of the LED lighting up as this will be in the case and will be screened out of the final product which should look something like this :

Any comments on this are much appreciated ?

btw the LED's are blue-er than that in real life.

Ninja

willy · 22 Apr 2009 at 20:54

This project gonna be interesting. Can't wait for the finish one

naudiz · 22 Apr 2009 at 20:55

Looking really good mate, loving the way the LEDs come out, looks awesome. Reminds me of expensive lighting in a show room or something

Mr. May · 26 Apr 2009 at 23:11

this is looking really good i like your experamental nature keep it up

Ducky Spud · 26 Apr 2009 at 23:28

Looks awsome man!! Scratch building a case is gonna be a lot of work, but sooo gonna be worth it when your done

Loving the fact your experimenting too, I wasnt sure about your LED idea but the results look good, nice work

Darkninja462 · 27 Apr 2009 at 17:06

naudiz said:
Looking really good mate, loving the way the LEDs come out, looks awesome. Reminds me of expensive lighting in a show room or something

Thanks

Mr. May said:
this is looking really good i like your experamental nature keep it up

Haha most of my work is about experimenting

like my spraying of motherboards

Ducky Spud said:
Looks awsome man!! Scratch building a case is gonna be a lot of work, but sooo gonna be worth it when your done

Loving the fact your experimenting too, I wasnt sure about your LED idea but the results look good, nice work

Yea it is a lot of work, but I like the challenge

LED idea is going to take an awful lot more planning but should be worth it for the effects it gives

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Now to the update.

Bit of an update (well not really

), been doing loads of cutting over past few days during break and lunch and frees, bout 60% of the way through I think, it takes ages

bout 4-5 mins a cut, should be able to go onto milling some of the pieces tomorrow so im gettin there slowly

, should have some pictures from cutting later on today.

Thats all folks

Ninja

RIZZEE · 27 Apr 2009 at 18:01

this is looking awesome man!!
wish i had the tools to do this

Darkninja462 · 27 Apr 2009 at 18:02

haha I wish I had them at home would be so much easier

Ninja

Monkey Puzzle · 27 Apr 2009 at 18:10

Looking good.

Are those motherboards still working ok?

Darkninja462 · 27 Apr 2009 at 18:30

Monkey Puzzle said:
Looking good. Are those motherboards still working ok?

Well didn't get round to spraying motherboard ran out of spray, but did do two network cards and a gfx card and PSU, they are all running full and correct since

, however stage II will begin when I receive more paint

.

Ninja

Ducky Spud · 27 Apr 2009 at 20:38

What, you spraying your cards/boards/whatever you want to call the important bits in a PC?

What you doing, literallty masking off where the heat sink goes and spraying everything with paint? Sounds... unusual haha, does that work? Or have I got this completely wrong

Darkninja462 · 27 Apr 2009 at 20:52

Ducky Spud said:
What, you spraying your cards/boards/whatever you want to call the important bits in a PC?

What you doing, literallty masking off where the heat sink goes and spraying everything with paint? Sounds... unusual haha, does that work? Or have I got this completely wrong

You have got it right (I think

) and they do work still perfectly fine

check out the thread its on these forums

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17982260

There You Go ^^

Hope this explains all

Ninja

Ducky Spud · 28 Apr 2009 at 01:27

Nice! I thought it would seriously effect the cards but they work fine for you!

Should do one black like the first, then a seriously thin coat of the gold on top, just to add a subtle gold sparkle... would look pretty cool

Darkninja462 · 28 Apr 2009 at 08:53

Ducky Spud said:
Nice! I thought it would seriously effect the cards but they work fine for you!

Should do one black like the first, then a seriously thin coat of the gold on top, just to add a subtle gold sparkle... would look pretty cool

It will all depend on what colour spray I get as I'm not actualy paying for it atm

as I can't buy it.

Ninja

Darkninja462 · 28 Apr 2009 at 18:26

RIZZEE said:
this is looking awesome man!!
wish i had the tools to do this

haha I wish I had the tools at my house would make it so much quicker.

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Update

Been using the Milling Machine today too me all of lunch time to do 2 bars

This is going to take a long time

Results are near enough perfect though

Ninja

VARDY · 28 Apr 2009 at 22:39

looks very good

Darkninja462 · 29 Apr 2009 at 17:11

VARDY said:
looks very good

Thankyou

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Update

Well all is good, I was aloud to use the Milling Machine during lunch and the afternoon. So

I got 90% of the Milling done

just got some small bits left to do.

Therefore drilling can start tomorrow which puts me well ahead of where I though I would be

so I'm bout 2 weeks ahead which is always a nice though.

Should Have some pictures up sometime tonight.

230th Post

Ninja