Project: Serendipity

[Marcus]

Well... finally a proper build for myself!

I was scounting eBay at some stupud hour last weekend and happened to come accross a bargain on a case... i'm sure you can guess what it is from the pictures!

It cost me £125 in total which ain't bad for £300's worth of case and accessories!

I've made a start on it last week so i'll post everything up at once to get y'all up to speed!

To get the ball rolling.. here are my "teaser" pics!

here's my new sexeee fans!

Shall post more a little later, i'm popping out for some lunch! :yumyum:

 

[Marcus]

Tuesday July 22nd

Well I made a start stripping and cleaning it tonight, the actual overall condition is really good it just needs some TLC to make it look pretty again.

It was covered in glue residue presumable left over from sticky cable holding clamps etc, so i've made a start attcking it with my awesome cleaning fluid... I swear it'd remove my head if I gave it half a chance!

I should of taken pics before I started but couldn't be bothered at the time, just wanted to crack on.

As you can see it's just dirty really, but i'll soon fix that!!

Hard drive cages all cleaned and prepped for coating next week, probably gonna use the Silverstone one instead of the Lian Li as it uses a 120mm fan instead of the weedy 80mm one.

My finger tips... buggered from the glue!

:evil:

More shortly!

 

[Marcus]

Wednesday July 23rd

Well it's fully stripped down for powder coating but I think I might hang onto it for a couple of days so I can rack my brains for mod ideas prior to coating it.

I defeated the glue though, i've attacked the ENTIRE case with the special cleaning fluid to remove any grease / dirt from it so it's good to go.

 

[Marcus]

Thursday 24th July

Replacment PCI Slot covers arrived today, had to buy new ones as the case only came with 1.

I'm gonna try the flakes in the clear powder.. might look pants or it might not, only 1 way to find out!!

 

[Marcus]

Wednesday 30th July

I've started getting another box of bits together to be powder coated black so if anyone needs any bits doing let me know asap and i'll get everything done at once!

I stripped the 120mm fan mounts to be coated black and found a few other bits and pieces to get done at the same time, probs drop them off next week as theres no rush for this stuff.

 

[Marcus]

Friday 1st August

Just dropped off the chassis and big box o'parts off at the coaters, also left him with a bag of black/silver flakes to have a play around with by putting them in the powder clear coat.

I really don't want to have the chassis sprayed with a normal wet clear coat because it scratches way too easy and it'lll just get damaged knowing me!

Hopefully I can get some good results with the flakes in the powder clear.. we shall find out next week!

 

[Marcus]

Sunday August 3rd

I braided my DDC Pro, just gotta wait for my exclusive pump top to arrive now!

Next up... the fan controller!

Basically, i'm just gonna mod the Sunbeam Rheobus into a Lian Li 5.25" Bay Bezel to make it look nice and clean but also remove the crazy bright LEDs..

and voila.. drilled out the bezel and fitted the PCB in behind it!

I've got other stuff to be getting on with now, probs won't touch this case again now until after i34 apart from any powder coating that happens this week.

and there you have it.. all up to date now!

 

[Toxcity]

Cor, looks bloody good!

 

[Hassan]

Cor, looks bloody good!

so right

 

[Marcus]

Couple more smallish updates here for you guys! :yumyum:

Monday 4th August

I dropped the chassis off with the guys on Friday and then today I went to pick up some other bits and pieces that were being done ASAP for i34, I got there and found my baby all done and wrapped up!

WAHOO!

It's only been sprayed in a normal satin black at the moment, then in 2 weeks i'm gonna take it back to get powder clear coated with that black sparkle flake in... must.. resist..urge..to... build!

Couple of pics of it once i'd got back home:

Might try get some braiding done later in the week... or I might not!

 

[Marcus]

Wednesday 6th August

This isn't much of an update, more of a "look at my new pump top" post!

You're looking at a DDC Pro with Xirex Reservoir Top kitted out with a Red Feser O-Ring and Danger Den Fat Boy Barbs.. oooooh yeh!

 

[Acid90]

Looks great, seriously jealous.

Wish I had the money to do something like this.

 

[Hassan]

I like that logo

 

[Socks]

Marcus!!!

I

HATE

YOU!!!

I'll love you again if you give me that case though?

What ya say?!?!?!?!? :worship: