Project: Secret of the Ooze

[gvblake22]

Originally Posted by Hitman

Dude you have been working on this for a long ass time, You plan on finishing it this decade? Or will my children have to show me pictures of it in my retirement home?

Yeah, yeah, I have a lot on my plate ok?!

[Jokerswild]

Originally Posted by gvblake22

Yeah, yeah, I have a lot on my plate ok?!

Well wolf it down and get busy.

[gvblake22]

Well, another weekend of modding has come and gone all too quickly. But I did manage to get some important stuff done. First up is the work on the back panel. Here are some pics of the HDD exhaust fan for the lower level of the case:

aaahhh, there we go, a perfectly cut 80mm fan hole. Oh, but wait, what is that?? I cut it on the wrong side of the case?!?!?!?!?!?!
So I had to cut another one on the correct side of the case:

But that still left the giant hole on the other side. Luckily that's where the PSU is going, so I was going to have to cut a hole there anyway, but as you can see, I didn't get lucky enough:


There is some remnant of the extra fan hole on the side of the PSU hole there that needed some covering up. So while I was thinking about the best way to go about covering up this little mistake, I went to work finishing the PSU mounting bracket...


Then tapping the holes in the back panel:

So I can thread these monsters into it:



The nylon spacers are to hold the PSU out the back of the case a little bit to make enough room behind the optical drives for the connections and stuff. I can always cut down the spacers if I find I can get away with less room...


And I also finally found a good use for those clear acrylic corner cubes I had scrapped from the first try on this case :



Now, back to covering up that ugly hole next to the PSU...
I just made another piece similar to the PSU mounting bracket but out of the thin fluorescent green acrylic:


Should cover it up enough and maybe even give it a nice accent when all is said and done!

I still had a few hours left I felt like working so I tried to see if I could get something done about making a filter for the front intake fan. I went to the hardware store and looked all over for some kind of screen that would work for filter material but wouldn't restrict airflow too much. Just as I was about to the point of frustration and leaving the store, I spotted a grease splatter guard and decided I could make it work:







The filter/guard will eventually be spray painted gloss black (like all of the other unfinished metal pieces on the case right now), and I will have to figure out how to adhere it to the inside of the fan hole. But for now, it's coming along slow but sure. Until next time! :ciao:

[Jokerswild]

Good to see your back at it.

[stinger608]

It is looooooking soooooooo awesome man!!!

Good thinking on covering up the f-up on the fan hole

As I was looking at the pics and reading the text, I was wondering what you were going to come up with, great job Blake

[yurimxpxman]

How long do you think it'll be until you'll have your parts in your case?

[gvblake22]

Originally Posted by yurimxpxman

How long do you think it'll be until you'll have your parts in your case?

Just for you Yuri, I'll do it tomorrow

Seriously though, I have no idea. I have gone through a complete hardware upgrade on everything from what I originally planned to put in this case. I just work on it when I get time, so there are no timelines or deadlines here

[killswitch83]

Originally Posted by gvblake22

Just for you Yuri, I'll do it tomorrow

Seriously though, I have no idea. I have gone through a complete hardware upgrade on everything from what I originally planned to put in this case. I just work on it when I get time, so there are no timelines or deadlines here

lol, yeah, seems to me you're not much of one for deadlines anyway, if I can remember correctly, heheh (yeah I remember talking to you about the idea.......over a year ago, lol ).........but seriously, it's shaping up nicely, keep up the good work man!!

[Mithosphere]

well seeing as how my view says this is 11 pages, i think you could probably pull off another 20 or so, maybe 35 by the time this is finished

[halutzparilla]

i highly doubt it, being blake with no deadline, he'll go beyond 35 pages on this project thread...