I am originally posting this project on the Overclockers Australia (OCAU) forums) in this thread:
Specific Hardware Topics > Modding > Alpine Caputer. This is posts #55 and #56 .
It's been good to have a day off and just work on this!
I've had to re-stick the nuts onto the side pieces. This time I've used more metallic cement around the images:
I took into account the holes that will be cut off later to save myself some time. So, this is how it sits now:
So, first try with the nuts didn't work so well but the motherboard stand-offs held really well:
Held firm! Moving on. The screw holes on the amp housing for the lid (not the sides) also need raising. It's a little bit hard to stick those on the amp housing though so instead, I decided to mount it on the lid itself.
First up, it needed some cleaning to get those labels off (you do the math).
And then the actual work I set out to do to begin with:
Next up was some attempted neatening of the dried metallic cement. A little bit of experimentation with sandpaper came up with the sandy coloured one working best (see pic). Here are the results:
It didn't work very well... Kind of hard to work with in such a small amounts so next idea, just for those that might be visible (sides and lids, forget the stand-offs): COVER IT UP!
Lots of sanding first to get to this:
A tonne of masking tape...
Post-spray:
It looks pretty good. I think I'll sand the whole thing back and do the whole thing over later.
Now, moving on the the backplate. Seeing as I don't have a Dremel yet, I've just lined it up the side with the back of the motherboard and marked it off for cutting. I got it wrong the first time though...
I've got an idea of where to cut the backplate but haven't marked it just yet. I also broke off one of these little tabs:
So I just broke them all off and problem solved!
That's it for now. Not quite sure what I'm going to do next but I'll figure it out shortly.
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