Project : Purple Rain

Crackshot_Gamer · 25 Oct 2009 at 11:49

I have to disagree with some of the posts about the tubing. I prefer it with the braiding, looks somewhat professional, good job!

vidda · 25 Oct 2009 at 12:00

Nice idea with the tubing, looks great so far

Brizzles · 25 Oct 2009 at 19:46

Cheers for the replies.

The tubing will be a Marmite thing, i guess.

The white tubing was fine, but i wanted something different - So only when its finished will i see whether it was a good or bad move

Anyway, bit of an update.

A few more bits done.

To cutdown on cabling, i made a small SATA power cable for the 2 HDDs and the DVD drive.

Cut the wires to length;

Strip the sleeving at the required points;

Heatshrink the wiring that will show;

Add the braiding;

Then just slot the bare wires in the correct slots on the connector.

Brizzles · 25 Oct 2009 at 19:48

More tubing has been braided, here's some random shots;

My camera doesn't like purple and turns it into blue for some reason

Cheers for looking

Tr Insanity · 25 Oct 2009 at 19:53

Loving the tubing , different but looks great with the rest of the case. :cool:

jbs · 25 Oct 2009 at 20:11

In my opinion you made the right decision with the tubing - looking great!

PaulGreyhead · 25 Oct 2009 at 22:20

Fantastic work. Looks purple to me!

mufc802 · 25 Oct 2009 at 22:34

Looks great, purple is different than usual case colour schemes and goes great. Nice fans to go with it.

Toastor · 26 Oct 2009 at 00:15

Really great project. Makes me wish I had the time, budget and know-how to do something similar!

nick_000000 · 26 Oct 2009 at 01:32

Looking good! Shame you can't get purple PCBs

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domthecondom · 26 Oct 2009 at 13:10

once its finnish let me know where you live in clifton

nick_000000 · 26 Oct 2009 at 14:34

Nice to see OCUK have been inspired to get some Fractal fans & cases now, probably all down to this

spudstudios · 27 Oct 2009 at 10:38

looking awesome

gee3000 · 27 Oct 2009 at 20:07

*drools purple stuff.

xrayhead · 27 Oct 2009 at 20:43

Must say I liked the white tubing, but that said the braiding is a top notch job....

Well done, cracking project and looks really professional.

Xray

md99 · 27 Oct 2009 at 22:42

Fantastic work. Can't wait to see it finished.

Ryan-3 · 29 Oct 2009 at 19:45

Looking very nice

Ducky Spud · 29 Oct 2009 at 20:44

Not checked this for a while but youve made some great progress! Was a bit unsure about the change of tubing (Like half the other people here

) but those last lot of photos fixed my doubts, it looks great with the braid on!

Keep up the good work, gonna be great when your done!

Brizzles · 7 Nov 2009 at 15:31

Another small update before i disappear for a couple of weeks holiday

Am going to use the 2 120mm roof fans for some internal lighting.

3mm white LEDs with metal bezels;

Enlarge the fan screw hole by a couple of mm , then simply fasten the nut to the back of the bezel;

Even though it will be on the roof, and out of sight, more braiding.....

Brizzles · 7 Nov 2009 at 15:33

More braiding of tubing, have moved on to 2nd loop for the OCZ Flex memory ;

Had some fan grills cut.

The inner ones here are backed with standard/small hole MeshX, so the back of the radiator is not visible;

All the other fans will be grilled, but will be backed with white Hex, or honeycombed, mesh to allow airlow and not to obscure the fans.

A couple of semi-darks;

Nice tidy work area

Thanks for looking, back soon :thumb: