Son Of Trinity: My case modding update

I don't know if any of you guys seen the first generation Coolermaster Stacker before, this case is basically my dream case after so many years even I have looked into various difference cases from ATX to M-ATX or even ITX casings.

The CM Stacker STC-01, the big bad ass cases back in the days when CM Centurion was famous for its aluminum panel designs. The Stacker, lets call it stacker shall we ? , Its design actually was one of the early designs that sparked the BTX factor for consumer market and also one of designs that created the idea of botom located PSU designs. Whoa boy, there's more to come !

This big baby packs a total of....lemme count, 11 drive bays !! What can you do with 11 drive bays ? well alot of stuffs i say. The 11 drive bays are 5.25" form, and no specific bays are designed for the 3.5" harddrives but WAIT, there's a so called 4-in-3 device included along its content. What does it looks like and what the 4-in-3 device looks like?

This is the 4-in-3 device for mounting HDD drives, it uses 3 x 5.25" bays and converts them into 4 x HDD slots. Neat eh ? at the same time it allows a 120mm fan to be mounted. Imagine 3 of these things mounted to the front bays and you'll get 3 x 120mm fans blowing cool air into the case or vice-versa.

If you notice, the bays above have these tooless clips or attachments that is used for mounting the device or optical drives to the 5.25" bays. They gave shitload of these for the case and with 11 bays, 11 for each sides and it make up 22 total. Madness !

As you can see, the buttons are located on the first bay, and yes baby ! this thing can be adjusted to any available bays. Total modifications !! Packs 6 x USB ports, some audio jack and the firewire port and finally the reset/power button.

The motherboard tray is removeable as well, and jolly hell it takes 15 screws removal to get this thing out, i guess this is what makes the case so damn solid. If you noticed, there is a rectangular hole at the tray and this hole is actually the exhaust/intake of the CoolerMaster obsolete crossflow fan.

Screws, screws, screws, screws and screws, this is what u get with the casing. There's so many of it and i doubt all of them are used.

And finally....WHEEEEELLLSSSS !!! This thing got wheels yo ! Seriously, this is a need because the case itself without internal hardware is 14 Kgs ! and with some stuffs in it say like 2 drives , motherboard, 1 ODD, few rams, heat sinks, fans, and lots of screws, it'll reach more than 17 Kgs. Heck heavy I say.
Now the interesting part !

It sure is my dream case, but when i had the money to buy it ? its already EOL (End of Life). Its considered as a rare case for me, even after 5 years, a new one still costs RM500+. One day while surfing a local forum, i stumbled upon a guy who is selling this rare case at a bargain price. This bargain price however is worth a new low end Coolermaster HAF or something similar. The seller includes everything that comes from the case, screws and everything. Nice and its a deal.
Now here comes the part where i was like WTFNEWYORKSAUCE! (picts by previous owner provided below)

THE ACTUAL CONDITION

I was told that the case had some minor scratches, well its acceptable. Unfortunately I don't have the detailed pictures of the case first condition. Anyway, the case was in bad condition, lots of dust, some stain marks, lots of worn out stickers, lots and lots of rusty parts. It made me sat there for a few hours trying to figure how am I supposed to clean it. The dusts collected are like black cottons, by meaning of black its like the case has grown some hairs in it.

I dismantled all the parts into bits, took it out to the compound and blasted it with water, full blast ! The dirts and dust is so stubborn till I have to use car shampoo to wash it. Took an hour to clean it part by part.
after cleaning the whole case and again I blasted with bla bla bla. Next.

After the wet cleaning, i went to some chemical cleaning with Brasso on the stickers and other obvious parts. The blackness is everywhere but Brasso took care of it. Again, bla bla bla, next.

Now here comes the pain in the ass and elbows and fingers part. I bought dozens of sandpapers and dug out some old paints. I thought of repainting it to a solid color, screw it. Sandpaper first. For almost two days I've spend all my time in the toilet sanding the shit out of the casing side panels. Now the previous owner painted the case without a layer of primer or in layman's term, then under layer paint. The primer is actually recommended when dark colors are used on the case, such as black for example. Black on aluminum is a no go and its a pain in the ass when you wanna remove it.
Before sanding, I bought a can of paint remover and using this can of stuffs without protection on your hands, eyes or feet can cause serious sting or skin cancer on the long run I guess ? Anyway, a tooth brush and half can of paint remover and a girl friend helping me. I've finally removed the black paint and it's still having dark stripes all over the side panels.

Now why the dark stripes ? the original panel is in silver color, which is brushed aluminum. Brushed aluminum have millions or billions of small stripe like gaps, with paints filling it up will be a bad time for someone who plans to remove it.
I went into sanding it, polishing it. Now remember what you have see above. And lets see my result. Notice the Before and After.

I thought of painting it, but heck it looks good just like this guy :

Shit, might as well name it S.T.A.C.K.E.R Mk II.

Tools used for refurbishing the case ?

20+ sandpapers from 100 grit sandpapers to 2000 grit
a can of clear spray
a bottle of Brasso polisher
a can of paint remover
a large amount of water for blasting
a few cups of sweet stuffs, Ice-cream soda i think ?
a lot of energy for moving the sandpapers

The result ? Priceless.

Now a note about the case performance, as expected to delivered superb cooling performance with only 3 fans excluding those on my CPU and VGA as both of these two are stock coolers. Everything is so damn cool compare to most of the cases I've tested.

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