zapperfish
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iv never seen those types of dremals
looks nice
looks nice
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Project:. Clear Dvd/cd Rom Drive.....
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AND UPDATE TIME AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!
This is actually a couple days of work here... been bouncing back and forth between pieces, letting glue dry etc...
OK..The first gear finished.. here is the work...
Here are the shots finished before assembly....
And here are the shots DONE, yes I test fit it, and it seemed to work ok, manually.. won't really know till fully assembled
And here is that little grommet thing, that holds the dvd/cd in place, weights are in place now...It is actually finished, but I didn't take a pic of it, the glue is drying now... next update...
OK.. THE TRAY is DONE.... I opted for something a little different.. call it an ICE TRAY...
Here are work pics first then the finished pics...
AND here are the 'Money' shots!
I'll let you guys figure out how I did the ICE effect...
and I will post a pic of the tray in the chassis next update... But it does look cool in the chassis....
remember you can see more details on my site...
This is actually a couple days of work here... been bouncing back and forth between pieces, letting glue dry etc...
OK..The first gear finished.. here is the work...
Here are the shots finished before assembly....
And here are the shots DONE, yes I test fit it, and it seemed to work ok, manually.. won't really know till fully assembled
And here is that little grommet thing, that holds the dvd/cd in place, weights are in place now...It is actually finished, but I didn't take a pic of it, the glue is drying now... next update...
OK.. THE TRAY is DONE.... I opted for something a little different.. call it an ICE TRAY...
Here are work pics first then the finished pics...
AND here are the 'Money' shots!
I'll let you guys figure out how I did the ICE effect...
and I will post a pic of the tray in the chassis next update... But it does look cool in the chassis....
remember you can see more details on my site...
zapperfish
Limp Gawd
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that looks good, will it still fit in the drive bay?
Update time!!!
Well the actual housing is pretty much done, a little clean up to do and that's about it...
I did the top of it clear, and the bottom and parts of the sides with the 'Ice' effect..
And here are the pics of the whole thing, from different angles...
And here is the side view.. pic not that great.. will re-take when completely cleaned up!
And here is the Bar that hold the cd in place while spinning, I glued two of the parts together..
Well ok, I decided to re-do the chassis, I originally had planned to leave it be, and just trim any excess plastic off of it, to make it thinner looking....but when I got done, I looked at it and said.. the hell with it........ so here goes...
Here it is after cutting apart and getting the plexi ready..
And here is the back of it bent with torch, ready to go...
And here are the back and siderails being glued together, with Weldbond of course!
That's it for today!
Well the actual housing is pretty much done, a little clean up to do and that's about it...
I did the top of it clear, and the bottom and parts of the sides with the 'Ice' effect..
And here are the pics of the whole thing, from different angles...
And here is the side view.. pic not that great.. will re-take when completely cleaned up!
And here is the Bar that hold the cd in place while spinning, I glued two of the parts together..
Well ok, I decided to re-do the chassis, I originally had planned to leave it be, and just trim any excess plastic off of it, to make it thinner looking....but when I got done, I looked at it and said.. the hell with it........ so here goes...
Here it is after cutting apart and getting the plexi ready..
And here is the back of it bent with torch, ready to go...
And here are the back and siderails being glued together, with Weldbond of course!
That's it for today!
altec said:
I did actually think about it, but there is WAY to much going on underneath... it would add a couple week to the project to do the whole tray......
there are special tracks on each side about 1/16 inch wide, there is another track down the right side that is about 1/16 wide and turns off to the side for a switch on the board, and there is a whole long gear set that runs the length of the tray.....
Oh I DID cut out the center of the Tray, where you would put a small cd, to show more...
I forgot to take a pic of that... will do now and add it in next update!!!
And Update once again.....
OK... The dvd tray is complete..I added the 'ice' effect to parts of the tray as well that I could..
OK..Now working and finishing the actual Bar that holds the dvd's in place....
And I have been working on the chassis, this is turing out to be a tough one!!
you can see the pieces I made for it, and some creative plexi bending I had to do..
The 'L' shaped pieces are the stops for the tray actually, on the read of chassis.
That's it for now... glue drying etc.. need to make some more parts..
OK... The dvd tray is complete..I added the 'ice' effect to parts of the tray as well that I could..
OK..Now working and finishing the actual Bar that holds the dvd's in place....
And I have been working on the chassis, this is turing out to be a tough one!!
you can see the pieces I made for it, and some creative plexi bending I had to do..
The 'L' shaped pieces are the stops for the tray actually, on the read of chassis.
That's it for now... glue drying etc.. need to make some more parts..
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nice I like it
OK... here we go, did some plan changes to this project, decided that the whole Clear plexi gear thing was neat, but pointless, as you won't really see them at all, so all the work will be done for nothing really, so I decided to take a different approach, let's add some color to this thing, clear and white were BLAH... so how about some BRIGHT ORANGE!!!??
I threw a few coats of paint on the gear housing and then put some Weldbond on it, to give it a gloss/Ice effect to match the rest...
OK, I started assembly... had to notch the spaces for the hinge on the tray, and then I had to creat a Locking Mechanism to hold it in place.. Tiny bars of plexi worked well for the locks!!
I just added Tray Guides to both sides, and need to create small brackets to hold the tray down close to the optical read head, but glue is drying now on the guide rails so I will take care of that when the glue dries!
as always, there are more pics on my site...
and lots of people mentioned LEDS should be in there as well....
SO.... I got some really cool ones, VERY BRIGHT, I got them as a review item from Sunbeam, they are the NEW LED SCREWS, should work out well, now just need to figure out how to get them in there!!!!!!!!
I threw a few coats of paint on the gear housing and then put some Weldbond on it, to give it a gloss/Ice effect to match the rest...
OK, I started assembly... had to notch the spaces for the hinge on the tray, and then I had to creat a Locking Mechanism to hold it in place.. Tiny bars of plexi worked well for the locks!!
I just added Tray Guides to both sides, and need to create small brackets to hold the tray down close to the optical read head, but glue is drying now on the guide rails so I will take care of that when the glue dries!
as always, there are more pics on my site...
and lots of people mentioned LEDS should be in there as well....
SO.... I got some really cool ones, VERY BRIGHT, I got them as a review item from Sunbeam, they are the NEW LED SCREWS, should work out well, now just need to figure out how to get them in there!!!!!!!!
zapperfish
Limp Gawd
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very nice lots of ework going into this
zapperfish
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soz if this has already been asked/ ans but are you using a Clear case
no, it's not for me... it is just a project I decided to do....
but I haven't been working on it lately, should have time this week to work on it...
Modding my other case, and playing with my Liquid Cooling system i have now, and life is taking most of my time at the moment!!
but I haven't been working on it lately, should have time this week to work on it...
Modding my other case, and playing with my Liquid Cooling system i have now, and life is taking most of my time at the moment!!
zapperfish
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soz for the off topic.
but you there, Qtip42 , get back to modding not posting
but you there, Qtip42 , get back to modding not posting