While doing a drive cage mod i tought why not solder the mesh to the metal see if it holds, and it does lol this mesh is held with 6 solder points in the back of the metal you see here .Good thing cause i would've had to rivet it or use screws

NICE!!! that looks like it was already on there!!

You get a quad stuffed oreo cookie for that!!!

Nice!

that really does add alot to the cage.

My fav.

Looks good.....is that steel or aluminum mesh?

sup kob

ah, looks like you cut a rectangular shape in the drive bay and then you had a piece of mesh and soldered it over the hole correct?

nice mod

hey! you told me you were gonna pay bills but instead you mod your case?! bad kobalt, give me that cookie!
LOL!!

I wholeheartedly agree.




High praise coming from the king himself! You should be proud of yourself to be recognized by this man. Pat yourself on the back........

looks pretty sweet man, gj

you did a pro job on that, cant even tell it was put in, looks like it was manufacured in

ahh! thats what i was trying to say, looks like it came like that lol,

Looks great Kobalt, thanks for sharing

It's steel, the one you can get a mnptech or is it nmptech lol
anyways i just wanted to share the fact that you can solder a piece of mesh to a piece of steel, i didn't think it was possible
I'll get it off and show you the inside

Edit: here's a pic of the solder points

looks great, and it holds pretty well? Do you think it'd survive the wear and tear of changing drives often?


Also, on another note, what type of digicam do you have?

Nice job If I find some mesh I'll be sure to put that on my modding scedule. LOL

Nice soldering job. I bet if you think about it you'll find a few more places to use that mesh.

hmm thats weird when i tried soldering my sheet metal parts it didnt stick, bah, oh well, guess opposites attract

ravix it's just a kodak easy share DX-4330 it has macro function, that's why i bought it lol well aside that it was also cheap
Also i do think it's there to stay, of course if you whack on ot with a screwdriver or something it'll come off but for regular use i bet it'll stay for as long as i want it there
And wrath maybe you didn't let the iron long enough on the metal so it wasn't hot enough to stick the led, you have to heat both pieces of metal to a certain temp. You did like a cold solder on wires when you melt the led and the wires arent hot, you pull on them and they separate easy> cold solder

Come to think of it you can probably do that with a blow torch, clamp both pieces and heat them till hot and add the led

I'll try that and come back to you guys lol

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Well i've tried it with two pieces of metal and the blow torch andit seems like the led dont want to accept the other piece, it sticks to one but shrugs off the other like if it was mercury.
I dont get it since it holds with my drive cage
Maybe it has something to do with the thickness or the prep. of the metal

You did'nt mention it so I have to ask the question... did you use any flux with the lead solder? When you soldered the original mesh I'm assuming you used regular solder which normally comes with a flux core.

nice modding. imagine a case made from pure mesh lol.

Good point, you're right i use thin solder, i think it has a bit of flux in it but i've never checked it.
With the blow torch i used a diffrent solder it has flux in it, maybe too much, i know when you try to solder a wire and you have to desolder and re do it again the wire is more difficult to do cause of the flux coating the wire.
So maybe my thin solder has no or very little flux

I'll have to check that out