mechabearshark Posted November 2, 2013 Share Posted November 2, 2013 b]Carbon steel[/b] scratch build Steel construction, air cooled, Budget Build. Concept: Angular steel construction with hand forged scrollwork and chain mail. Invert ATX Mounting straight through flow design. relocated optical, fan control, usb panel Intel I5-2380 Biostar TZ77B mother board Gigabyte gt430 2 gig 8 gig Patriot sector 5 WD caviar green 500 gb HD Cooler master Hyper n520 cooler master 120 fan x2 (bought about a year ago forgot what model) cooler master master sickleflow 120 4x unknown 80 mm fans need to Purchase: New PS ssd cooler master hyper t-3 (Base for custom GPU cooler) I will start you out with my filthy cluttered work area start point was a Lian li Pc-60 using mb tray and HD cage Panels will be used for scrap in build what ever I might need crappy phone pic front grill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mechabearshark Posted November 4, 2013 Author Share Posted November 4, 2013 initial drawing completed. ill share at the end Material estimations 32 ft .25" square rod 10 ft 3/16th round rod 4x 4x16 16 ga sheet steel the wife asked I was building a rail road. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mechabearshark Posted November 11, 2013 Author Share Posted November 11, 2013 I Have placed my steel order. and spent a week weaving and cutting rings for chain mail I have a bruise in my hand from clipping so many rings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mechabearshark Posted November 18, 2013 Author Share Posted November 18, 2013 Its Sunday lets do stuff!!!! Got my steel orderd deliverd! got right to cutting it up beveling the edges to ensure good welds all parts cut/beveled Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mechabearshark Posted November 18, 2013 Author Share Posted November 18, 2013 Time to drill I broker a lot of drill bits so I would fix the remaining portion and go again ill have to tap later.. the tap I bought destroyed it self after 1 turn Weldin time a lil clean up ok enough for today...walking dead will be on soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mechabearshark Posted December 2, 2013 Author Share Posted December 2, 2013 YAY got some work done more parts welded up tap tap tap aroooooooooo! I broker two taps before I went and to sears and bought a cheaper craftsman tap which used the correct size drill no problems since Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mechabearshark Posted December 2, 2013 Author Share Posted December 2, 2013 drew out what ill be using for panels I decided to leave in the grip indents as a carbon over lay looks really good w/ contour. I drilled some tabs so the side panel would be able to attach to the frame Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mechabearshark Posted December 2, 2013 Author Share Posted December 2, 2013 inner cage welded up drilled and tapped Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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mechabearshark Posted December 2, 2013 Author Share Posted December 2, 2013 outer cage time Creative clamping Creative clamping show ummmthe clamps, clamps bad cell phone pic approaching warning! still need to weld up the bottom portion of the outer cage here is the pic be fore clean up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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