Solar/Akasa Project

krisboats · 3 Dec 2008 at 15:09

khemist said:
Did you manage to keep all the paint off the floor by using newspaper?.

Yes i did, there's some residual powder-like stuff coating the carpet just outside the newspaper but it just hoovers off.

I got everything covered in a first coat of lacquer this morning and the top of the roof panel got two coats. Foolishly i decided to have a look at it all built up so i assembled it a bit too early and when removing the panels again i chipped some paint off :eek:

I'll have to go buy a touch up pen from the garage.

The fans look absolutely slick against the black paint too.

My windowed side panel turned up today as well, its all coming together now. Just have to leave it to dry properly and then i'm done... happy times!

krisboats · 5 Dec 2008 at 07:27

This is the old case for comparison. It was pretty toasty despite having 2x120mm yate loons at 12v on the side panel and the front/rear fans on full :confused:

Started fitting components now

Removable motherboard trays are so awesome!

Now i need to remove the IDE hard drive and replace it with another SATA one and replace the DVD drive with a SATA version as well so i can get rid of the IDE cable. Getting the heatshrink wrapping and some more braided cabling would be nice too., then i can move onto hard drive enclosures and fan controllers.

I've already found that the 24pin Mobo cable is VERY stretched to get round the mobo tray so i think i'm going to have to get the dremel out and take away a small part of the case to allow for better cable access round the back of the tray.

But its nice at the minute, absolutely brilliant for around £50-60.

misterPK · 5 Dec 2008 at 09:11

Looking very nice mate, and I'm glad to hear that ribbon cable is going, it does look a bit out of place in there!

Its a shame the case isnt about 5 cm shorter, it does look like there's a big empty space at the front. You could fit a small romanian orphan in there!

PK!

krisboats · 5 Dec 2008 at 09:20

Should be a nice amount of room for my reservoir and pump once i get round to water cooling the CPU and GFX card

PwnDirect · 5 Dec 2008 at 09:39

very nice

btw where did you get those bolts for your window? email <

domthecondom · 5 Dec 2008 at 13:29

that looks smart as hell

any chance for a proper night picture?

The GPU cooler the Akasa vortex? or what ever it is called?

khemist · 7 Dec 2008 at 10:38

Got my 5x xigmatek fans the other day (look the biz) all braided and heatshrinked and awaiting a case now

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bobbydigital · 7 Dec 2008 at 10:50

Really good spray job there mate, very impressive.

HeX · 8 Dec 2008 at 09:29

PwnDirect said:
very nice

btw where did you get those bolts for your window? email <

Window looks like it is the Eclipse Window Side-Pannel.

AndyOcUK · 8 Dec 2008 at 12:07

HeX said:
Window looks like it is the Eclipse Window Side-Pannel.

It is :

Available HERE:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...bcat=&name=Akasa Eclipse 62 Window Side Panel

Eclipse F T W

Nice work BTW mate

chainy · 16 Dec 2008 at 22:19

Great build mate, Now you are virtually finished it will give you a bit of time to clean that room up of yours lol

What was the finish of the paintwork like up close. Are you happy with it. Something I want to try myself but worried that it will look like one of those cruddy hand painted cars you see about and think how tacky it looks. Looks great from the pics though.