stinka's antec p160 facia mod

Drazic said:
I'd buy one! Being totaly honest too
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you've got me thinking now mate :D

it would certainly be more fun (easy life) sat at home knocking up wooden pc cases, than fitting kitchens, hanging doors and putting roofs on......
 
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thanks for all the positive replys so far

as a few of you have sugested i may just give it a few coats of clear polyeurathane varnish and polish it up to a right old shine

im thinking of putting power/reset buttons in the top pannel at the front to leave the front as minimal as i can, and also putting threaded bar in back side of facia set in resin so i can attach thumb screws from the inside therefore leaving the front unclutered as it is

also toying with an idea about modding my zalman fan controller so as the 2 toggle switches on the right are replaced with power/reset push switches and the leds above for power/hdd. id do away with both switches and leds drill non critical holes in pcb to thread wires from switches/leds to mobo, but ill have to speak to my mate who knows a fare bit about electronics as i cant get my head round the pcb atm ;)
 
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stinka said:
thanks for all the positive replys so far

as a few of you have sugested i may just give it a few coats of clear polyeurathane varnish and polish it up to a right old shine

im thinking of putting power/reset buttons in the top pannel at the front to leave the front as minimal as i can, and also putting threaded bar in back side of facia set in resin so i can attach thumb screws from the inside therefore leaving the front unclutered as it is
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single power switch on the front, lian li have proven that the reset switch is redundant.

i think one, chrome power button below the dvd drives would look sweet, maybe off set slightly
 
Markatomic said:
Lovely job, really impressed with it. Def put as little on the front as possible, looks really nice plain and simple. And varnish all the way.
mark
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glad you like it :D and ive decided to mod my zalman fan conroller as i said to keep front as minimalistic as poss :cool:

im amazed at all the positive comments cheers
 
Troop said:
Looks realy good, bet it would look even better in a nice real wood.
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im thinking the same but it takes a lot of time and patience to router as much material away from real wood as the grain tends to split if you dont move the router in the correct way

knowing my luck id get all the way to the end and a big chunk of wood would come flying off :( ;) spose i could use my chisels on the openings tho
 
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Troop said:
Yes go for it , a nice piece of oak or cherry wood, all polished up would just look amazing, might just have to have a go myself.
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Somebody on TBCS is building a cherry wood case:

http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6712

The craftsmanship is good, though i'm going to be skeptical about the wooden look until it is finished.

That said, for just using MDF stinka has made an excellent front facia!
 
been racking my brains thinking about a way to fix the front and ive sorted it :

found some 12 mm magnetic catches in b&q today whilst getting some stuff for work, so i got a couple. fitted them in the two existing holes in the front of my case had to dremel the holes slightly bigger :

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and double sunk the two plates into the back of my facia allowing for the magnet sticking out of the case as well leaving it (the facia) perfectly flush with my case:

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i needed some locating pins at the top so i placed the facia on and marked 2 existing 3mm holes on back of facia with a pencil from inside the case (if that makes sense)

i took facia off and screwed 2 self tappers in the pencil marks on back of facia. i then ground the exposed thread off the self tappers to leave to locating pegs that aligned perfectly and are quite snug in the holes

so im going to put 2 more magnets in the top area and mabey a couple more locating pegs at the bottom but it did the job. in fact as it is now its pretty secure and doesnt fall off :D

and as it is now with the old top panel hanging out untill i mod the zalman as previously mentioned :

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