found a old 2ja26-oc5-rev:a chassis in the trash today not sure what im gonna do with it but this baby has poteintal when im done with it

its got 2 5.5 inch bays and 2 3.5 inchers it

i painted it black for now here it is:

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so it will have potential once you are done with it or it has potential now and you are going to exploit that?

after im done chopping up the chassis need to put in some fan holes also need to put in a hole close to where the psu would so for cable management

i came up with some ideas at work today here they are tell me what you think:

2 92mm fans stacked in the front
2 120mm bottom case
1 92mm rear

after that then its time to exploit it

not sure on the color yet but im leaning toward smoked acrylic or painting the the inside of clear acrylic flat black so it will have a high gloss black look if i do this then the lighting will have to be green

split the side panel 75/25 and piano hinge them flush

keep every on posted and up to date on it

if anyone has any suggestion id like to here them

after more brainstorming decided to get rid of the 2 3.5 inch bays and go with 2 120mm in front instead of the 92s

2 reasons behind this decision

1 better air flow
2 bigger selection of fans

mainly i can get my hand on a 4 inch hole saw

after just looking at it i dont need to hole saw im just going to rip into the front with a jig a cut a channel into starting from the bays since there 4 inch

are the cut

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got a little work on the case done had to drill out 4 rivets so the fans would rest right , managed to get the front of the case cut and had to cut a sliver out of my finger also got have way thru the bottom of the case and broke my last blade so i need to get some more

i guess those old steel cases are built to last arent they

all in all it was a productdive day

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are you going to re paint it once you're done so it isn't scratched up?

yep going to be green sine im going with black or smoked plexi

well i bad decision yesturday by letting my girlfriends dad cut the bottom of the case he originally i just wanted a plain square cut well i guess he had other plan dont ask me what he was thinking. even gave him a fan for making sure the cut was the right size

i guess the saying is true

if you want something done right then do it your self
WRITE THAT DOWN AND POST IT IN THE WORK SHOP!

now i have to fix this wreck im pissed

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ok heres the latest scoop

photoshoped the all fans into the project and heres the pics:

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You gunna weight that down so it doesn't take off?!?

Something tells me that won't work. I don't know enough to say why, but I would just look to the number of people doing similar fan setups.

Not to mention the vase amounts of dust that would bring in.

havent thought about the hover factor yet but as for the dust i planed on using filters for that also the fans will all be on manual switches in the area next to the six fans on the side only the middle two fans on the side, top fan in front, and all 3 top case fans will be fixed on

but thanx for the input

good news this just today.......getting free plexi from my girlfreinds uncle and her other uncle is giving me 10 old computers to salvage thru so less things to purchace sweet ill post when i receive them

i hope your good with wires cause all those fans are going to be a pain to hook up and make it look clean

Quote: Originally Posted by blue screen of death good news this just today.......getting free plexi from my girlfreinds uncle and her other uncle is giving me 10 old computers to salvage thru so less things to purchace sweet ill post when i receive them

Lucky b*#$£#^, I had to pay £80 just for some Perspex(1900mm X 1500mm X 5mm) over

here in the UK.

its good to have connetions with contstruction and network adminastors

havent posted any thing in a while so just to keep you up to date :

the rotary tool i bought got returned becust the screw insert stripped out after the first use (peice of crap dont buy it(Duarbrand) i guess you get what you pay for.But santa is going to be nice and give me a Dremel this year

My fans came in the otherr day decided to go with the:

Coolermaster 120 S12 4pack- 44.73CFM 19.1db

Went with less fans for the reason that i found out the air flow commin in would be to great
inorder to have good air flow the exsaust should be 2o% less than the intake so these 4 will be hooked up to a controller any one have a 4channel 5.25" they dont want anymore

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so.... wheres the rest of the case?
is it just that chassis? no sheet metal?

Thoughtful, logical airflow is a lot more useful than a sh!tload of airflow just for the sake of having fans.

I first question why you're planning this, because...

1) People constructing cases entirely out of fans--it's already been done.

2) Airflow like you showed in your Photoshop images is really inefficient. It consumes a lot of power needlessly, and won't cool your case much better (if at all) than a well-planned airflow. It'll just create turbulence and all that turbulent air will be trapped inside the case.

For example, if all the side panel fans are intakes, where is all that intake air going to flow? It can't go through the motherboard and motherboard tray and opposite side panel. So, you force it to make 90-degree turns to exit far fewer exhaust fans, which means a big airflow bottleneck and a bunch of hot, turbulent air swooping around inside the case because it can't vent.

Time to re-think your fans/plans, unless you're going for the "novelty" of having a bunch of fans all over the place--which I've already pointed out is no longer novel, it's been done before, and it didn't work that well then, either.