Here's a pic of one of the more tedious tasks that is going on.
I've decided to brush the framing bars. One at a time, I go ahead and dismount a bar. First I dremel down any significant gouges. Then I sand it with 220 grit paper, first in small strokes to work away any scratches and smooth the dremel marks. Then in long strokes to get the brushing. Finally I use a sand paper jig to get perfectly parallel long strokes.
Here in this pic you can see that I've brushed the long vertical foreground bar. The left pic is the bar before, and the right is after:
This also another tedious task. The large plastic panels need to be fitted to the frame (which is slightly--by mm--off from square). So I mask off a portion of the corners (see the masking tape), and dremel (sanding drum) away 1-2mm to make it sit proper.
it would look way better tig welded up maybe you can talk to a welding shop around or even a high school shop teacher( i live down the block from one and when i want something realy pretty i stop by and he lets me use there massive tig welder not realy too hard to do). i would also polish those bars up they would turn out better than chrome. but realy bad *** case
One day I plan on learning how to weld. On the other hand, it's nice to know I can take my powered screw driver and completely disassemble this case into a small box and a few sheets of plastic in under 5 minutes. Also makes replacing parts or altering things a snap.
I like the brushed look because frankly it hides scratches. This one's meant to mostly be a functional case, so I don't really want to be worried about a scratches on a perfect finish. Might consider powder coating it. Don't get me wrong, tho, I do like shinyobjects.
Went to work on cutting my holes for the radiator:
it helps me to have my whole works facilitys to use i have benders, cutters tons of great tools. and of course there was a push by me to get a water cooled tig in but its not there yet maybe it will come in soon.
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