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Defyant Style Turbine Fan Mod

    Defyant shows how to turn a bland fan into something unique, here's a quote from the guide... "When I built HPR-2 I had a lot of people asking how I made the "Turbine" Style Front Fan.
As simple as this was to just explain (which I hopefully did well) pictures always help."  Read on to learn how easy it is to trick out your case fans.

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Printing Custom Color Appliques

    Coming to you directly from our "Mod Guides of the Lost" series... this guide shows how to print out and apply home made window or case appliques.  Originally appearing in the "$5 Dollar Window Mod" and "Modding a Test PSU Into a Desktop PSU" guides, this compilation guide will take you from initial designing to final application of DIY custom printed appliques.

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LED Brake Lights Into Case Lights

    Coming to you directly from our "Mod Guides of the Lost" series... this guide shows how to turn the LED brake lights from a car into a very bright and highly affordable case lighting solution  in any color you like so long as it's red.  Originally appearing in the "Project Lament: HellRaiser Cenobite PC" and "Project Lament II: Hell's Illusion" worklogs the 'new' guide shows two different takes on brake light modding.

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Oven Forming Sheet Acrylic

    There are a few different ways to form acrylic including a heat strip or heat gun, but short of using a vacuum table the electric oven in your kitchen is your best bet for forming complex shapes in acrylic sheets.  Coming to you directly from our "Mod Guides of the Lost" series... this guide shows how to form your own 3-D case windows or parts, originally appearing in the "Project Lament: HellRaiser Cenobite PC" work log it's now a stand alone guide.

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Sculpting Compounds - A Primer

    This guide will introduce you to a few different sculpting compounds that can be used to create original mods and also rates their ease of use, strength and effectiveness versus cost per ounce.  Coming to you directly from our "Mod Guides of the Lost" series and originally appearing in the "Project Lament: HellRaiser Cenobite PC" work log, not all sculpting compounds are created equal.... read on to take the hassle out of deciding which modeling product will work best for your mods.

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5" Lumin Disk Window Mod by Ecca

    Ecca wrote up a guide showing an easy way to mod a five inch Lumin disk into your side panel window, it really could be modded into almost any open part of of your case but it shines as a window accent.  A quote from the guide: "This was a brilliant idea I thought up when I was in the mall and saw this super-fly groovy Lumin Disk. A Lumin Disk is very similar to a plasma ball... Anyhow, I thought this would be a nice addition to my wannabe plasma tubes already in my PC".  Follow along as Ecca shows step by step how to accomplish a slick little window mod.

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CD Bezel Vinyl Dying Guide

    Coming to you directly from our "Mod Guides of the Lost" series... this guide shows how to take apart a CD-ROM drives front bezel and how to go about changing your drive color from beige to black by using a can of spray vinyl color.  Shown briefly in the $10 case make-over guide, this all new guide covers CD-ROM disassembly, preparation and spraying... so simple that there's no excuse to settle for beige drives.

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2X16 Serial LCD Mod by Arem

    Arem wrote a 2X16 LCD modding guide to share with the community, here's a quote from the how-to: "I've had a basicx24 with development board and serial LCD laying around since Christmas about 2 years ago... While looking through the documentation for the LCD however, I noticed that it could be connected to a PC serial port as well as to the micro-controller.", sweet.  Follow along step by step as Arem hacks a 2X16 character LCD into a bay mounted programmable PC display.

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Mod LED's into PSU Molex Ends

    Coming to you directly from our "Mod Guides of the Lost" series... this next guide covers adding a little extra 'bling' to what is normally just a small white drab piece of plastic.  Originally appearing in the "Modding a Test PSU Into a Desktop PSU" guide, this excerpt shows how you can make your molex ends glow.

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Steelpad 4S Lighting Mod

    In our ongoing tradition to try and mod everything we proudly present a mousepad lighting mod done for under $15.  We were sent a Steelpad 4S and a FraggPad for review, they both performed well and received good scores... but the main reason for wanting to review them was to mod them both afterwards, here is the Steelpasd 4S mod.

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