Holey Moley - A case mod

welshtom

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Hi all,

I was approached by a now good friend of mine Ben Hodson to mod his case. His case turned out to be the PC777 anniversary edition Lian Li case so we had to do something a bit unique to it (nothing really crazy but unique all the same).

Unfortunatly for me, Ben wanted grills drilled into the top panel of the case.

After much umming and ahhing we decided two grills were in order.

One template and mucho drilling later and I have in my very very strained hands ...

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Each one of those holes are 3mm and in the same pattern as what is used on the rest of the case. I *think* there are roughly 1060 holes in those two grills.

Also, i made a template to use to make these grills, so in essence i've drilled that grill about 3 times not 2 lol

Needless to say I'm proud of what its come out like.

More modding to come to this case yet though.........a colour change is in order.

Tom
 
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ITs having watercooling put into it once Bens decided on his components.

Also its being anodised, this week hopefully.

Tom
 
Its the top panel yea, the rad isnt going against the top panel. Its going below it in the CD drive bays so the air will go up through these grills

Just the top looks rather plain and boring, hence the grills. It would have been hard to fit a factory grill like the thermochill ones due to the curvature and that would detract from the overall case I think.

We wanted to keep the case clean and simple without adding anything to it.

Tom
 
mc_bob said:
I would have got bored after the first 10 holes. Looks good though, surprised it was done by hand :)

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Lol thats not even 1% of the total number......funny thing is I have NO patience normally.
 
GinG said:
You have done an amazing job on that, how did you make a template? was it a bit of MDF or something that you have pre drilled or something?

Very tempted to do this on my case for the top, however now i have do0ne a blow hole on the side it may look a bit funny, will see!

Great Job though
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I used an old Lian Li side panel which had a grill in it. Used that to drill a template into another old case panel i had.

so that way I had a Steel template so it wouldnt be affected when i drilled through it. It takes a long long time to do though.

Tom
 
Thanks Yewen :)

Its meant be something a bit unique without being OTT.

Just a simple case mod that should help the watercooling side. Still lots of work to do on the case prepping for anodising though.

Tom
 
AH HA, sandpaper is the key. the top surface is now smooooooth with no burr's.
A light rub down with some 800 grit took off the very slight burrs and did not affect the brushed aluminium one bit, although i took care to only sand in the same direction as it obviously.

Tom

EDIT: nice piccy for you - yes that is hand drilled ;)

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EDIT: If you scroll up and down fast on this pic it makes your eyes go funny
 
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Yea, i made the template then curved it slightly and clamped it on.

the curved surface was a little less curved when i was doing it and i was doing 2 inch sections at a time.

So once i did one section, i'd move the clamps down to the next 2 inches. that way it came out pretty uniform.

Im well happy how it turned out!

Tom
 
hehe, the first pic shows the sheer number of holes that I had to drill.

Does look and feel sweet at the moment. Hopefully have a finished article this week or beginning of next week :)

Tom
 
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