stinka's antec p160 facia mod

been thinking about my side window design allday and i think ive got a great idea :cool:

ive got my standard unwindowed side panel and im going to cut an opening and finish it with a raised mdf piece like this :

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the green bit being the mdf with a port like the front for another 120mm fan over the gpu :D

i'll have a go at that on saturday i hope
 
stinka said:
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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dude just take it real slow, set your router to only about 3mm and do it a good few times. Ive routered pine, mahogany and oak without many problems :) oak would seriously look sick :D
 
im seriously amazed at how brillant that looks.
i allways thaught "LOL" to wood, but wow :eek:

you should make a living from that :D

if i had that tallent with wood id build a 2 inch thick wood box to go all the way around my case to make it noise proof lol
 
IceShock said:
you should make a living from that :Dl
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cheers mate, but i do, im a joiner ;)

im pretty shocked at the positive feed back in this thread. its just something i do everyday, and after some inspiration from drazic im going to build a complete case

but i want to finish this project first. side panel at the week end, then its my watercooling install single loop just for the cpu, when i get the bits:

thermochill 120.1 inside at top
d-tek-fuzion or apogee gtx
ddc with plexitop
micro res
 
stinka said:
cheers mate, but i do, im a joiner ;)

im pretty shocked at the positive feed back in this thread. its just something i do everyday, and after some inspiration from drazic im going to build a complete case

but i want to finish this project first. side panel at the week end, then its my watercooling install single loop just for the cpu, when i get the bits:

thermochill 120.1 inside at top
d-tek-fuzion or apogee gtx
ddc with plexitop
micro res
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Verry good, :)

I wonder if wood would be more noise dampening than metal cases tho?
i might give it a try one time as a project, but im not "skilled" with wood lol
 
my side panel vision has been realized, heres how i did it :

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i taped the panel and marked out what i thought would be window opening. then i cut a blank and marked openings on this (forgot to take pics of this stage ) i partially cut this out with my chop saw and finished it off with hand saw, then routered openings in usual manner with bullnose bit leaving this :

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i drilled some starting holes with a 10mm bit so i could get my jigsaw in to cut opening in side panel :

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i then cut opening out :

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so i just need to get some perspex for the window and varnish the mdf, can anyone suggest a cheap supplier for the perspex

thanks

stinka

oh and heres one of my newly converted workshop for anyone thats interested :


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