Sprocket Resurfaces...

[Detale]

Please do. The loop looks nice and clean man. Clear tubing?? I thought you were partial to the black stuff.

[clocker]

I am partial to the black tube but this is a budget build, remember?
Anyway, made what I hope are the final mods to the case today.
Required stripping out a lot of stuff but that's OK- every time I disassemble the case it gets refined just a bit more when put back together.

This time I added a hard drive cage...the gen 1 SSD was just not getting it.
Here she is going back together...


A (blurry) closeup of the cage...


This is a Scythe part, meant to install drives into a 5.25" optical bay.
Basically just two plates with 6 rubber isolators which make up the difference in width.
I machined six rods and hung the assembly just like the DVD-RW is mounted.
Seems very quiet so far.
I also drilled/trepanned for a 120mm fan, mounted on the outside back of the case, set to blow in over the HDDs.

And a shot of Sprocket all back together...


So now she's got 2 x 250GB in RAID 0, 1 x 500GB and 1 x 1TB- both for storage.
The Vantec external eSATA has another 1TB drive and there are two more 250GB drives to cycle through the external dock.
Altogether, 3.5TB...which should hold me for a while.

That probably ends this stage of Sprocket's metamorphosis but we all know that the next change could come at any time.

Ciao.

[j2k4]

Wow.

[Detale]

I love when you start with the aluminum rod. Damn you're good. Dude you should do a step by step on how you drill and tap the rods like you do.

About the rods holding the HDD cage. How are the mounted? Is it simply screwed through the back of the case into the rod supporting those drives? Also I took a quick look for that cage by scythe and I cant seem to find it, wher'd ya get it?

[clocker]

Here.

The back of the case is actually quite complex.
I made a new mounting panel for the PSU (so I could flip it upside down) which extends all the way to the top of the I/O panel.
I also made a panel for the inside which goes from just below the PSU to the top of the I/O panel.
The original caseback is sandwiched between the two.

The rods supporting the HDD cage are screwed through the inner panel with 6-32 screws.
There's really nothing to show about making the rods.
Chuck the round stock up in a lathe, drill the appropriately sized hole and thread it.
The rod stock is 3/8" aluminum and I use 3/8" plastic electrical clamps as hangers.
All material came from Ace Hardware, nothing exotic about it.

[Detale]

Any why may I ask have I never seen any pics of these mounting panel then hmmmm?

Maybe there's nothing exotic about the material, but the man is a different story. Dude you need your own domain http:Clockersthemotherfuckinman.org

[clocker]

T'were there sufficient bloodflow, I'd be blushing.

Here is a blurry and intentionally ambiguous shot of the clockworks as it sits tonight...


Twin 20" IBM ThinkVision monitors, a Vantec external eSATA enclosure, Saitek Eclipse keyboard, Logitech MX1000 mouse and last but hardly least...Sprocket.

Sprocket now hosts an Intel e8400 (4.1GHz, eVga 8800GT GPU- both watercooled- on a Gigabyte EP45-UD3R motherboard populated with 8GB of G.skill RAM.
3 TB of installed storage with provision for external docking.
SATA DVD-RW, Corsair 620w modular PSU, custom Silverstone TJ-06 case.
Windows 7 (build 7000) OS.

In case anyone was wondering.

[ryan20021982]

looking nice

I got that same keyboard

how is the windows 7??

Got a copy of build 7000 in 64bit burnt gonna install in the mornin

[clocker]

Got a copy of build 7000 in 64bit burnt gonna install in the mornin

Wow, where did you get it?
The only 64bit build I could find was 68-something and the taskbar hadn't been changed to the new version yet.
I switched back to 7000 32bit to get the full working package even though it doesn't use all the memory.
Can't wait to get the 64 version...

[ryan20021982]

SCT has it

Microsoft.Windows.7.Beta.1.Build.7000.x64.DVD-WinBeta


And TPB

Microsoft Windows 7 Beta 7000.0.081212-1400 Ultimate 64Bit Engli