Project Jibadib

[waynio]

mATX-Tower

Gone back to using 1 system & needed a new case, considered buying 1 but decided to make 1.

It's a spacious HTPC/gaming mATX rig.

Measures 272W, 346D, 566H.


Supports a 280mm AIO water cooler in top, 2 140mm system fans, 2 120mm storage fans, covered long PSU, 306mm GPU length, 190mm CPU cooler height, 5 HDD 1 SSD, mass of cable management space for what should be a clean looking build, pretty basic but quality case.



Design.

Made printer ready.

Printed.

Sliced.

Joined & cut.

Sanding.

Bending.

Grommet & mount point added, this is the PSU cover, mounts by 1 screw to a modding cube for quick full PSU access.

Making the 10mm acrylic IO piece & 1mm piece.

And done, reason I made it 2 dual slots is the 980 Ti reference cooler benefits from this.

Marked & cut the mesh pieces.

Mount holes added.

Painted matte black.

Case bits.

The brush metal vinyl wrap, black internals, grey externals.

Revised the log with different name.

 

[colinmcr]

Looks great, is all the tooling at your work place or home? I'm all for waffle me, but that because half my time is spent reading logs instead of doing them.

 

[faheemrazzaq]

that is great craftsmanship mate.

 

[waynio]

@Colin, At home, I think I waffle too much in my logs, trying to keep it all to the point now.

@fahreem, Thanks.

Another day of waiting for the materials.

 

[Luggs]

+1 for high waffle content (it's the main way I learn things whilst drooling over pics)

Props for the ambition of building your own case, good luck matey!

 

[waynio]

@Luggs, thanks.

 

[waynio]

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[waynio]

Got the alu today & done the front & back panels, I'll have a proper session tomorrow.

 

[SamyBoy13]

Nice one. Only if I have the right equipment I could make one myself, not just look

 

[hestolemydog]

If I had this equipment, the possibilities would be endless. The possibilities, I wouldn't do anything but at least I have possibilities.

 

[Luggs]

Nice progress, but got to ask, what/why Jibadib?

 

[waynio]

Nice progress, but got to ask, what/why Jibadib?

Random made up word but changed it to mATX Tower.

 

[tyler_jrb]

I was wondering why Jibadib aswell lol.

Some really nice work there, great workmanship on all those panels, looks great. Really nice to see you designing and building your very own case so ill look forward to future updates .

 

[Luggs]

Random made up word but changed it to mATX Tower.

Lol spent 10 mins googling that thinking it was some obscure but cool ref. It's also quite a common surname in some east Asian countries fyi...

 

[waynio]

I was wondering why Jibadib aswell lol.

Some really nice work there, great workmanship on all those panels, looks great. Really nice to see you designing and building your very own case so ill look forward to future updates .

Thanks Tyler.

Lol spent 10 mins googling that thinking it was some obscure but cool ref. It's also quite a common surname in some east Asian countries fyi...

LOL wow.



Top, sides & motherboard tray done.

This left to do which I'll try to get done tomorrow.

 

[Trunkey]

Awesome.

 

[waynio]

Awesome.

Done the mid & bottom panels & HDD cage, just need to make the 6 HDD trays now.

The HDD cage is 5 panels, 8 modding cubes & 24 cut, sanded, drilled & tapped square bars, pretty good day of modding today, unsure if I'll head back to it to do those final HDD trays today or not.

 

[randal]

Woo! Another Waynio project!

 

[waynio]

Woo! Another Waynio project!

Done the HDD trays, but the mount holes was in wrong orientation so only way around it was either drill extra holes or just cut the little handles off & spin them around, I did the latter.

All to do now is countersink all the holes throughout the case, then clean up edges, clean it all & then apply the vinyl wrap & put it all together.

 

[waynio]

The HDD case mounts to the bottom panel.

First assemble to see how it all is.

It has a few imperfections but I think it'll do.

I'll dissemble over the next days to wrap it in vinyl.