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I have to disagree with some of the posts about the tubing. I prefer it with the braiding, looks somewhat professional, good job! 
Project : Purple Rain
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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.
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.
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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
My camera doesn't like purple and turns it into blue for some reason
Cheers for looking
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Loving the tubing , different but looks great with the rest of the case. 
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Fantastic work. Looks purple to me!
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Looking good! Shame you can't get purple PCBs 
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Soldato
once its finnish let me know where you live in clifton 
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Nice to see OCUK have been inspired to get some Fractal fans & cases now, probably all down to this
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looking awesome
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Looking very nice
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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!
) 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!
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.....
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.....
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:
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: