Gadgetory

I've made a few more decisions oh sorry I guess I'll preface this by saying this will be another another small update about my personal rig upgrade that's going on here so one of the things that I've decided is that I am going to three powdercoat the internals of the case so I found a place locally that will strip off all the old powder coating I'm a chemical bath they need it for a few days it's going to cost about 60 bucks they figure and then I'm going to send the internals back down to Mountain Lots as well as the optical drive and especially the pieces that I missed last time like this one so that the whole inside will be uniform and black instead of having some parts of it still left with the natural aluminum color hold on a second this is one of the reasons to buy a high end case by the way guys as you can see I've now stripped it down to just the unibody chassis are the unibody frame and you can pull out all of the drive cages there's actually more pieces over here the support braces for the back you can pull out the motherboard mount to the plate so all of these are going to be stripped down and then what I'm going to do is I'm going to do a bit of a trial run build of the machine to see if there's any more cable management that I need to add for myself so one of the things that I mentioned before is I thought I might need a bigger gap back here in order to run more cables up to the back of the motherboard tray so I might do that one of the other things I might do is build myself in some better options in terms of running water cooling through the mid plate because right now these holes don't really line up perfectly with with what I'm trying to do so that's one thing I'll consider I still haven't figured out a way to address the problem with this this hole right here but so I haven't really decided if I'm going to do that one of the things that I'll probably do is cut out a CPU of whatever they're called motherboard tray CPU cutout here so that I can more easily swap out CPU coolers I mean the cooler I'm going to be using the Apogee HD there is is a fairly easy to mount one because there's no aftermarket backplate it just uses the stock LGA 2011 backplate but I mean you never know what's going to happen in the future and I don't necessarily want to repower coat my case every oh hey don't eat the screw hey come on come on come on over there you have it in your mouth okay I don't necessarily want to reap outer put the case every time I do a new build so that's uh that would be my reasoning for for just making sure I do everything right this time hopefully I don't have to do it next time ah yeah the place the place that's stripping off the powder coating also does plating so I'm thinking about potentially depending on what the cost is going to be like um there's a couple there's a couple options so one option would be gold plating the Copperhead blocks so that they can sit on top of the Copperhead Ram so I've got two of these but then I really not sure if I want to do that and then the other thing is that you can actually strip the nickel plating off this guy and then gold plate it instead but one of my concerns about that is they said that when you're stripping the nickel plating off it will actually attack the copper as well and so when they then plate the gold back on there might be some imperfections in the finish so am I better off with something that doesn't match but it is finished perfectly or am I better off with something that matches but doesn't finish perfectly I don't know so I think that's pretty much it for the update right now I still haven't really made a made a solid decision about what I want to do the outer chassis whether I want to get it painted because this part is still pretty perfect but the side panels are in rough shape there's a look we use for the the Vesta special edition systems painting those they do a really good job and they're not that expensive so if you get some kind of automotive paint finish going on on here maybe some color change paint or something I haven't decided how crazy I want to go yet on this um okay actually I think we're we're pretty much wrapped up here here's one of the last pieces of the case so pretty much all the pieces of the case are down here now I'm just gonna take these fans off and then this is not going into mountain mod so it's only these middle pieces so I got to take these in get them stripped first including these which means I'm going to do these black wrinkles so they'll at least match the inside of the case and yeah every once in a while and I'm working on a build I I find something that obviously I know how to do but I have no idea how I did this like look look at this so so this bracket the way it works is you got your metal pieces folded here here here here and here and I've used rubber noise-isolating mounts to mount these fans in here but I don't know how I got these in here and how I'm going to get them out this is ridiculous so uh the reason I even care is because I'm going to get this black wrinkled powder-coated as well just to match the grilles in the front they won't be the same kind of match but at least still be the same color but cheese well I'll figure it out anyway don't forget to subscribe and that's what a TJ o7 looks like with almost nothing left in it so there you go