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Case Mod: Day 5 (and receipt) June 19th, 2008

Update: It’s not done. The case is now in six pieces on my floor. I guess once it started getting warmed up along with the pressure of the power supply being pushed into the back plate, the glue was just not holding up at all. Now I have something to do tomorrow. I’m thinking aquarium glue?

Well, it’s officially done.

I don’t know how I feel about this. It was definitely a good and fun experience. I whittled away 5 days of my summer, and I definitely accomplished something. The downside is that this wasn’t exactly the most useful thing in the world to spend my time building, since I’m never really going to see it, and there was nothing wrong with the previous case.

But it’s finally over, and to the untrained eye, it probably looks awesome. As I’ve spent so many hours staring at it, measuring it, and test-fitting it, I can see all the defects. The lid doesn’t sit flush (but it did earlier…), there’s cracks in the faux “etching” on top, the glue on some of the seams is not holding very well. Blah, blah, blah.

A pictures worth a thousand words. Here’s a photo timeline from empty to case to finished computer.