am I out of my damn mind, creating a thermoformed window for stacker 830?

[ares350]

why didnt he just polish the aluminum? you can get a mirror shine with enough elbow grease.

 

[damarble]

Well looking at it from home. I *think* it looks good. It's still really hard to see the details. You need to find some kind of trim to go around the edge so you don't have to worry about a perfect cut. It would hide all those holes too.

 

[ares350]

I cant imagine what trim I could possibly use.

guess I could do black silicone sealant; hide the edge and the holes.

getting that to look good could be just as difficult though.

Im just torn. Assuming I get a good panel formed... which is a big assumption, and a good enough cut, and seal it well. do I want a window? more to the point, do I want a formed window, or would a flat window be better?

and it limits me from using the 4 fans there as well, no way for me to create circulation from the door after that. so all said and done, if I put my raptor drive on top, we're talking I then have 2 case fans plus PSU. takes the case from the greatest cooling design to one of the worst... thats a tough choice.

 

[greenmaji]

carefull to ventilate properly

I would PM MarkS about this project, he has done alot of custom forming work for another hobby.

 

[ares350]

yeah, keep going around in circles. I think it could look great, but I place too much focus on performance to make the sacrifice. and Ive had the "modded" look(unfinished and rough) for 3 years, I bought this case to have the clean finished look. I cant lose sight of that.

grates back in place and Im ordering a ton of yateloons to cool this thing to the core.

 

[leojharris]

why didnt he just polish the aluminum? you can get a mirror shine with enough elbow grease.

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you won't get a shine like this:

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man! that's about as *bling* as it gets.

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that guys got money to burn for *sure*.

here's a link to more shots of his current work in progress: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=1954853&postcount=114

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so what's going on with the acrylic window? any progress?

 

[Drew@PSU]

Looks sweet, try using some of this window gasket to go around it ( if you haven't thought of that already ).

As I said, that looks very very pimp. Judging from home much you are concerned with getting it perfect, I can't wait to see the finished product. Stackers are sw33t cases.

 

[ares350]

I gave up, any other day I coulda done it I think. but I got to thinking about it, and Id rather have the cooling available. solid door kills alot of the reason I bought such an expensive case to begin with.

would have looked great for sure.

 

[Femto]

Very cool. Might have to try this sometime if I ever mod a case

Thanks for posting