custom allu case from the ground up.

cheers for the great comment man.
the the bulgin switch would you say its about 2 mill overhang on its widest part?
looks that way so about 23/24mill at its thickest

and thats a really good shot of the switch in action they really are a sleak bit of kit :D
 
I'm willing to pay it :D love them real sexy look to finish a case i plane to fit it in a piece of high polished copper cut to a circle to surround the edge of the button by about 4 mil out, should look a nice contrast as the only things a different couler to brushed aluminum :D
 
yep its the top section of the frame and the smaller parts are the uprights for the corners.
its a simple design really, should be effective though and have a nice clean stylish look (fingers crossed)
 
ok update on the project.

Today i set about the task of cutting the mesh which turned out to be a bigger job than i had first thought, and now i realize just how soft aluminum is bloody stainless steel :(

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this is what was left of the cheapo cutting discs at this point as you can see the pile is a lot smaller than the plastic tub which was full at the start.
It worked out i was getting roughly an inch a disc :eek:

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as you can expect this was very depressing having to change the discs every minute or two.
so i cheated :o and bent it till it snapped but it was nothing a quick go over with the sand wheel on the old rotary tool didn't solve

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so im up to this point and i decided to have a dry fit of the parts to see were i am work out were certain cuts need to be and just have a look at the overall progress and just what its gonna look like.

bad idea this is going to change the whole project but ill start another post to make sure i can post these 2 images together :eek:
 
so any way to stop the suspence i used some masking tape and started to build the dry fit, the missus was sitting next to me watching and waiting in anticipation i finish up and here she is.(keep in mind it is a rough fit and there are cuts need to get rid of gaps and make things flush)

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i looked at my girlfriend look at the case and said "well what do you think"
she looked at the case looked at me and replied "i think it would look better on iits side"
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yes you can imagine i was not pleased lol! but i entertained the idea and up hinged it onto its side

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well thing is i sorta think she is right grrrrrrrrrr , i have been looking it over and its not to hard to pull off with a little modification it isnt to far off the desighn cosmetically it will look the same as the picture just would need modified to mountings inside the case,

help me out guys i need some advice what do you think?
 
Is it possible to buy decent dremel discs that last longer than 1 inch of stainless/4 inches aluminium as I had a similair problem to you
 
was going to when funds allow, ill just drill the rivets out fit the screen and re rivet it.
thats if i don't shift it on to the side like the missus suggests and use it as a normal case.
any ideas?

and yes you can but better discs. they do quick fit ones now but your talking £10 for about 3 i think bit to pricey for me id rather save for a band saw lol!
 
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Looking very promising so far. IIRC there was another full alloy case build on here a year or so ago. Shame theres no search function as you could have got some ideas. I don't think the other guy finished it and just ended up buying a Lian Li :( .
 
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