ASPHIAX Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 That is one very interesting place to put the res! Nice one mate ! Good luck to you in the contest ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brinkz0r Posted April 1, 2011 Author Share Posted April 1, 2011 Update I want to have two fillports at the top, one for the water going in and one for the outgoing air. There's only one problem, there is not enough space to use a standard fillport or a weird construction with fittings. So I went for my standard solution: "When everything else fails, build something out of 20mm acrylic" First up, a 1:1 scale sketch of the piece, with the same 42 degree angle as the big white sheet: Next step: cutting a chunk out of the big sheet of 20mm acrylic. I had to cut it by hand to prevent it from melting. The holes were drilled with a 12mm drill, in one time. To make sure it wouldn't crack I clamped it in multiple ways and I had to cool it repeatedly. The holes were threaded with a G1/4" tap: The plan was to not drill the holes completely through, but I had to do that so I could tap them. The result is that I need to put in even more stops. This is how the complete assembly will look At the case, it should look something like this is the near future. I will cut a hole in the top of the case for the two fill ports. When in use, I will only have to slide off the top of the Cosmos to reach the fill port: It ain't much this time, maybe more next time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brinkz0r Posted April 8, 2011 Author Share Posted April 8, 2011 Update In a moment I will continue with the fillports, but until then I want to show you a few pictures of the cutouts for the tubing of the radiator. It's not very special, but hey, it's progress For the tubing of the reservoir I drilled four 10mm holes: There it is The center to center distance of the fillport block is the same as the distance on the reservoir to make the tubing straight: If I wanna be able to use the fillports, I will have to cut a hole in the roof. And as anything with hex mesh looks cool, I made you a picture Instead of one big hole, I will make two holes close together: Drilled, cut and filed. I really need a step drill The result of the past few days, completely mounted: I'll have to figure out what I will work on next, I think I will work on mounting the pump I will also have to start searching for a motherboard, so I can continue working on the side panel and the CPU cooler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brinkz0r Posted April 11, 2011 Author Share Posted April 11, 2011 Update! This is what the bottom of the case looks like right now: Because I modified a few things on this case (that's an understatement ), most of the holes can't be used the way they were intended to. On this picture, the PSU will be placed more to the right, the fan will be placed more to the left. So let's cover all that up with white acrylic Starting with the rough shape: The rough shape is ready and was measured correctly, now it's time to make a few smaller cutouts: The back fits now, hiding the mounting of the bars and some rivets: Doesn't quite fit in the front though, there are still some nuts and bolts there: I drilled a few shallow holes on the other side: To make room for these protruding bolts: I made some room for the nuts and bolts in the front also. I couldn't use countersunk bolts, so I drilled two holes that were slightly bigger than the bolt head: Just a little filing left to do, on the edge on the left: Done I promised you that I was going to work on the pump, and I did. Before I could mount the pump, I had to make the bottom plate though. I still had this mini pump lying around: When it ain't broke..... I has to be mounted right here, but sunk into the acrylic. That would set the inlet of the pump on the same height as the outlet of the radiator. I know it's more common to route the tubing directly from the reservoir to the pump, but I'm placing the radiator in between. I'm confident that will work just as well. Cut and filed: Nice, it fits To mount the pump to the acrylic, I drilled and tapped two holes in the part that isn't in contact with the water: I will mount it with this tiny part: O RLY? That's what came to mind when I saw this next picture: I will glue the plate later, once I cut all of the holes that still have to be cut. As I said, a power supply and a fan will probably be mounted there also. I will leave you with a few overview shots of the state the case is in now: (much better than before, don't you agree? ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brinkz0r Posted April 29, 2011 Author Share Posted April 29, 2011 Update It took me a while, but here it is. Only two more weeks before the deadline, that's going to be tough A few posts ago, I was whining about needing a step drill. A few days later a nice guy named Mexel sent me a message, that I could have his. Have? Yes have. I gladly accepted, and sent him some of my products in return. This is the drill, it makes holes up to 22mm In 2mm thick aluminum, the hole looks like this. Not perfect, but way faster then my previous methods: Now it's time for my first sponsor ever. Cooler Master responded to my email and were kind enough to send me this huge V8 cooler. Exactly what I needed, thanks Marco! Because I was looking for a big cooler, this one will fit perfectly. Well, actually it won't fit, but that's the idea Back to modding. This is the original left side panel of the Cosmos S, that will not be used in this case. The design is very clever, with multiple layers and bolt connections. I removed the lower part, that's the part that I am reusing right now. I may use the rest as a photo frame in the future My new side panel has a weird shape, so I can only use a little part of it: I wanted to bend the edges to add strength, but chose to cut a piece of lexan to size to reinforce the steel: Fits like a glove: I still need to remove a chunk because of the Nexus fan grill: All bolted together, once again with M3 bolts that leave the front of the sheet flush: I hope the next pictures show why I am using this. One of the nicest features of the Cosmos S is that the side panel remains standing when flipping the switch at the back. The same principle will work with my side panel now, only without the back switch: Now that is sorted, I can more easily drill the holes for mounting that part to the case: For now, the Lexan is still clear so the reservoir is easily visible. The side panel will be white later on though, so I needed to cut a window in my window: Roughly cut: Filed: The second plate will have an exact copy of this window, only rotated, through which the reservoir will be visible also. I will use some thin acrylic for the windows itself. Last weeked I was at The Party 9, a lan party for about a 1000 people here in the Netherlands. I brought Cubeleon with me to take part in the Casemodding Contest, but I was beaten by The Black Box and a cardboard box that was thrown together a day earlier. The only reason that I won a price, was because they put me on the website as a second place winner, which turned out to not be the case. Highflow got me a Cooler Master V10, the big brother of the cooler I just got straight from Cooler Master. But I will still be using this one: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brinkz0r Posted May 8, 2011 Author Share Posted May 8, 2011 Update We've got one more week to go before the deadline, so here is an update of a few days ago.. The first thing was to make a strip of aluminum to join the two major parts of the side panel, as I don't trust a glue joint alone. Fortunately, the test piece was glued very well, very solid. This is the 2mm strip: A nice series of holes has to be drilled. At some places this isn't possible because other parts are in the way: Drilled the holes and added a bending line. I grinded a line into the metal with a Dremel to be able to make a nicer bend: Bent with the use of a wooden hammer while clamping halve of the strip. I used an angle measurement device to make sure the bending angle was the same all the way: Now to something else, the second part of the side panel. That needed a window also, so the reservoir is very visible: These two pieces of 3mm acrylic will be the actual windows later on: This is how all of the parts mentioned above fit on the side pane: The rest of the time was spent on mounting the PSU and the hard drive. The power supply doesn't fit in its original position anymore, so I decided to shift it back a little. It still needs to get rid of its hot air, so a few holes were cut in the back panel: A short cable was created: To make the big hole look a little nicer, I added some hexx mesh and glued it in with super glue: The power supply will be mounted with two bolts and an Attila-style bracket With the use of some more white acrylic, I am making a compartment for the PSU and its cables: I used some nice angles, that make the fit even better: The thick piece of acrylic was added because this is a very short power supply. Most others are 20mm longer, and they need to fit also. Now it only needs a roof: Because I have cut away all of the drive bays and filled it with some weird shapes, there is not a lot of room to fit a hard drive nicely. This is how it will be mounted: I am skipping the pictures of the drilling and countersinking the mounting holes if you don't mind Here a test drive is mounted: The last thing to do was to cut a hole for the hard drive cables. Unfortunately I also had to cut off a part of the compartment, otherwise the side panels won't fit: I will probably glue these parts together, or bolt it if there is no other way. To fill the case, I ordered some new hardware. An Asus P8P67 motherboard fitted with an Intel i5 2500K unlocked processor. The memory is a set of 4GB Corsair Vengeance boards. I will probably use my old graphics card for the final pictures, as I can't afford to buy one right now. Some more work has been done by now, but I really need my time to finish the case Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brinkz0r Posted May 15, 2011 Author Share Posted May 15, 2011 I still have a lot of pictures left to share from the building process, but there is no time left so I will just show you guys the pictures of the finished case The mixture of styles worked very well, because of the combination of watercooling and air cooling, and by keeping one side of the case in stock condition and completely rebuild the other side. Here it is: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrenkieNL Posted May 21, 2011 Share Posted May 21, 2011 Very cool build, Peter. Maybe its just me, but I see lot of similarities with my old Stealth casemod; weird angles, cutting of big chunks etc. Anyway, this compo has attracted so many great builders, that the ppl are kinda overwwhelmed with super cool builds like yours. dont you agree ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MonsterMawd Posted May 22, 2011 Share Posted May 22, 2011 Great job brinkz0r! and I really like the implementation of the individual compartments! Good photos too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brinkz0r Posted May 23, 2011 Author Share Posted May 23, 2011 Very cool build, Peter. Maybe its just me, but I see lot of similarities with my old Stealth casemod; weird angles, cutting of big chunks etc. Anyway, this compo has attracted so many great builders, that the ppl are kinda overwwhelmed with super cool builds like yours. dont you agree ? Thanks Frenk There are some similarities indeed, although the result is quite different It is true that every big modder is participating in this one contest. Great job brinkz0r! and I really like the implementation of the individual compartments! Good photos too! Thanks a lot Bill! I was able to borrow a good 18MP camera with a few lenses. Then all I had to do was shoot a few pictures and resize them to 355x267 for the contest page You almost got as many votes as me, with just those few parts. Too bad that you couldn't make the deadline, are you still going to finish the case? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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