![]() Read about the remake of the classic Udat case.
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![]() ![]() Next up was to salvage all that remained from the original front beezel. 2mm plywood will bring back some of the stuctural integrity.
![]() Here we have a typical epoxy sandwich, from the bottom and up we have: aluminium foil, plywood, epoxy, old beezel, random heavy motherboard box and one unit of Udat2010 acting as weight.
![]() With the epoxy set it's time to reduce the structural integrity yet again...
![]() A single layer of plywood was perfect to end up level with the metal frame around the 5-in-3 hot swap bay as well as the optical drive.
![]() But to make it a bit cleaner another layer of wood was added, in this case balsawood which was a bad decision. It is near impossible to get a good painted finish on that so after a lot of filler,
primer, filler, more filler and so on I said screw it and just started using the system as it was.
So fast forward 14 months and I had finally made up my mind of what to do with this sad looking case with an out of date name. Udat 2010 was no longer going to look like a boring white sugar cube which was the original plan. Instead it will have a theme based on EVE-Online as that game after all has been a major part of my life the past five years. ![]() So here we go the year is 2011 and I have just found this fantastic material called basswood, it is like balsawood, but better as it is harder but still easy to work with. This piece is 1/8" and
will form the back of the Veto Corp logo that belongs to the group of people I fly with.
![]() Some more cutting of 1/8" basswood under way.
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