I've made a few more decisions oh sorry I guess I'll preface this by saying this
will be another uh 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 rep powder coat the internals of the
case so I found a place uh locally that
will strip off all the Old Powder Coating uh in a chemical bath they need
it for a few days uh it's going to cost about 60 bucks they figure and then I'm
going to send the internals back down to
uh Mountain mods 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 in instead of having some parts of
it uh 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 or the
unibody frame and uh you can pull out
all of the drive cages uh there's actually more pieces over
here the support braces for the back you
can pull out the motherboard mounts the mid plate so all of these are going to
be uh stripped down and then what I'm going to do is I'm going to do a bit of
a a trial run build of the machine to see if there's any more cable management
that I need to add for myself so uh 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 uh 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 uh with what I'm trying to do
so uh that's one thing I'll consider I
still haven't figured out a way to address the uh the problem with this
this hole right here but also haven't really decided if I'm going to do that
uh one of the things that I'll probably do is cut out a
CPU um
whatever they're called uh motherboard
Trace CPU cutout here so that I can more easily swap out CPU coolers I mean the
cooler I'm going to be using the Apple ghd there is uh is a fairly easy to
mount one because there's no aftermarket back plate it just uses the stock LGA
2011 back plate but I mean you never know what's going to happen in the
future and I don't necessarily want to rep powder coat my case um every oh oh
hey don't eat the screw hey come on
come on come on there do you have it in your
mouth there it is okay I don't necessarily want to rep powder coat 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
um yeah the place the place that's stripping off the powder coating also
does plating so I'm thinking about poten
eventually 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 uh gold plating the copperhead blocks
so that they can sit on top of the uh 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 uh 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 is finished perfectly or am I
better off with something that matches but isn't finished 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 with the outer chassis uh whether I want to get it
painted because this part is still pretty perfect but the side panels are
in rough shape um there's a we use for
the uh the Vesta special edition systems painting those uh they do a really good
job and they're not that expensive so uh you could 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 going to take these fans off and then uh 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
uh yeah every once in a while when I'm
working on a build I um I find something that obviously I know how to do but
um I 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 uh 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 um the reason I even care is because I I'm
going to get this black wrinkle powder coated as well just to match the uh the
grills in the front they won't be the same kind of mesh but at least they'll
be the same color but jeez well I'll figure it out anyway
don't forget to subscribe and uh that's what a tj07 looks like with almost
nothing left in it so there you go