The Layers of color denote what would stay or become the background. This is MY DESIGN and I would love to see where you use it. You guys are welcome to use it if you want but PLEASE TELL ME FIRST. Putting the Apple back felt a bit odd however so I opted to design my own logo. Now that I had covered it up with white paint I was going to have to do something with it.
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I rigged up a way to hang the inner chassis in my garage to be able to cover everything and avoid drips. The result is a nice, flat looking soft touch finish which is very pleasing to both to look at and feel. This is why you are seeing this AFTER everything else as this IS the correct chronological order.Įverything was primed twice with a rust-oleum bonding primer, then covered with 3 coats of a flat primer + paint combo. Though they were simply hand cut, crude brackets, I am very happy with the result.ĭue to a chassis fire (Liquid cooler leaked on the original build) I had to re-paint the original chassis after stripping the burnt paint. Mounting the SSD's required me to make some custom L brackets from some spare metal strips I had laying around. Unfortunately I didn't take any pictures of it, but I spliced a right angel PSU cable with the original Apple plug to create my extension to the exterior port. To accomplish this, I created a rough brick shaped mold from layers of thick cardboard and wrapped the glass around it. This tray was designed to hold 2 SSDs and also act as a backer for the power plug, all while being perfectly visible from the side panel window. I built this out of plexi as well, as I wanted to be able to put LED's under it. I love the look of it through the window, though some may not, and that's okay! I drilled holes in the glass and melted the original G5 PSU's nuts into the glass so that the bracket could mount in the original holes of the case.įor aesthetic reasons, I opted to mount the PSU vertically. Next I went on the cut out he window from the door panel and began to shape plexiglass for my custom H100i GTX radiator bracket. Though this case could easily support an ATX mobo, I opted for an mATX board so that I could utilize the original hard drive cage as you will see later. The upper tray had to be trimmed so that the ATX tray could fit underneath it. The process was fairly similar for the rear I/O Panel as well.
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I began by marking out the front I/O Panel and then cutting it out with a Dremel (3 Layers of masking for Dremel whoopsies ).
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*** If you would like me to post instructions on how to do so, please message me and I will make a new post for it. Most of you probably know how to do it by now, To Start off, I'm going to just skip the disassembly. Building a CustoMac Hackintosh: Buyer's Guide