stinka's antec p160 facia mod

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stinka's antec p160 case mod

so im fed up with my tacky looking and old antec p160

it is a very good case roomy and well designed just imo the front panel is a bit poor with fake chrome effects and stuff going on

well i decided to have a go at making a new front pannel this weekend

first i had half a sheet of 18mm mdf in the shed so i cut to oversize pices roughly and stuck them together with pva, i clamped them and screwed them from the back :

sorry for the poor quality pics

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i left them all day yesterday and overnight and they were well stuck this morning. i marked out the new facia using the existing one as a template :

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then i set myself up in the garden, router, circular saw and cordless drill etc

using a 4ft spirit level as a guide for my circular saw i cut out the facia panel blank :

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next stage was to router out the opening for the 4 x 5.25 drive bays :

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then i used a trend corner chisel to square the corners after routing:

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i then cut a 110 mm hole in front of the front fan location and used a bullnose router bit to round the edges on the fan hole drive bays and the outer edges

then i flipped it over and routed the back freehand (to save time) for a grill over fan and clearance round optical bays :

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so thats as far as i got today, given it a light sand but theres some burns around the drive bay opening, but they wont be seen once i spray it

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im not sure how to fix it to the case, toying with a few ideas might have some threaded bar in all for corners with some thumb screws or maybee just screw it through from the inside

im hoping to use to aluminium push switches, like race car starter buttons 1 for power and 1 for reset with the 2 led's power/hdd between them. i'll mount these below the optical bays where the 3.5" bays are

im still undecided as to a finish. probably spray it silver to match the case but im thinking i could laminate it with some iron on stuff maybee carbon fibre or walnut burr or somthing mad

also ive got the standard unwindowed side panel so im going to cut a window in that of some kind

thanks

stinka
 
stinka said:
i could neaten them up, but i thought ya cant ess em when its on :p
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i know, but you'll always be thinking "damn i wish i'd done a proper job"

i've done similar for other projects (ie coursework/art etc :p)

oh, and i'd go with the thumbscrew idea, least then you can take it off if you need to do something to it...
 
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Megahurtz400 said:
Spray it in something different, not silver or black.

Maybe paint it black and put some simple blue tribal patterns on the front, then use all blue leds inside. Or red?
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i cant stand tribal paterns tbh mate, im going for clean understated and retro its not a corsa sri you know ;)

but thanks for the suggestion
 
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