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Re: Planning to make my custom case.
« Reply #59 from previous page: November 25, 2013, 01:09:44 AM »
Getting close to the end..... found a floppy almost new, thanks to a guy that just trashed away an old amiga 2000; the motherboard was rusted and the case was all cracked, but the floppy was still alive, so I grabbed it for free :)

Gotta fit it in, and then I need to mold a bit the front plate, so I can finally paint it.

The rear plates are done and secured to the case, made a cable for the joystick and an opening for the keyboard cable, so that is done.

The last thing was to figure out what is wrong with the video: I still have no clue after buying a new picoPSU, a new 12V regulated brick and a different adaptor....the composite signal is just fine, but the one on the RGB port continue to go on and off.

I have seen threads around talking about issues with their tv, when using the rgb to scart cable, so I thought that it may be the cable, but there is no way to prove it, since it works fine with the big ATX psu.

Connected all the 5V together, still see the issue; altho it seems that the problem is less frequent when the amiga is running for some time; which raise some interesting questions about the stability of the motherboard itself (maybe some capacitors are leaking on the RGB port? I am no HW engineer so I have no idea if that's the issue).

Anyway, ordered the indivision; and let's see if that will fix the issue....removing the scart cable and the adapter is the quickest way probably, to get rid of the problem.

If I get the same behavior with the indivision too, will probably just give up and get a regular tower...so in the worst case I just wasted 60 bucks for the case that now can simply be trashed :)

BTW would the indivision fit, since I already have the Lyra adapter on top of the board?


More pictures to come, of the final product :)
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Re: Planning to make my custom case.
« Reply #60 on: November 29, 2013, 12:33:42 AM »
So, today I gave the case the last touch.

It doesn't look yet complete, since I have ordered some body filler to fix the front bezel, so until I fix the front bezel, I can't paint it. Altho the rest is done.

I will finish the back plate when I have time, so it may look more professional and less crappy :) I am in contact with a person that knows a guy that does brackets and back plate work...if he is able to make few brackets and back plates for me, with his 3d printer; it will be awesome.

I've done another coat of paint on the top of the case, printed on Papilio paper (the one used for decal, by many pro) the Amiga boing ball. and put it on the case.
To protect it I've added a coat of acrylic transparent paint (the one used to preserve painting), but it gave me a bad result: the vinyl that I printed became cracked, after applying the vinyl spray...not sure why this happened; if anyone has info about why this happened I would gladly hear how to avoid it :) I will eventually print another boing ball and remove this one, for now it is good as is :)

When I printed and placed the vinyl decal on the case, it was just fine; this happened after that I gave 2 coat of acrylic protective paint,and left it outside to dry all night.I suspect that the variation in temperature was the cause of the mess.

One journey is over, but the next is about to start: improving the case!

Thanks for your suggestions and for following me in this crazy adventure of my first case modding of my entire life :)

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