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I was looking forward to the lid closing

Very cool project, thank you for sharing! I do think this case with a Framework mainboard would be fantastic. I read through that forum post before I saw this video and was thinking that it would be a great use for such. You mentioning that only seems to confirm that. I will be interested in seeing what comes of this machine in the future. Do you continue to use it? Does it become a show piece? I am sort of hoping you find a way to use this machine at least somewhat frequently, somehow. Thanks again!

Rees sent me.

@ReesRambles sent me here to view this!

I feel it would be appropriate to put an ouroboros symbol on the lid of this system.

Why dont show it closed :(

Stainless steel - the DeLorean of laptops 😁 Seriously though you've gone above and beyond as always, my hat is off to you!

Shut up and take my money!

Hi Matt, great video. I have a 760ED and 770Z with bad rubber paint, but worse. On the lids of both machines the paint/rubberized coating is completely coming off and exposing the bare shiny metal. On the 770Z even the paint on the palmrest is coming off and exposing the shiny metal. Do you recommend using the same method to remove the rubberized paint and the same method to apply a new coating of paint using the same paint you used?

I really love your videos. I have a 701c that my best friend left me when he moved away 10 years ago. I've kept it in storage and never really touched it. About 5 years ago, I checked on it and found the battery had leaked, so I threw it away. The surface also became very sticky. Since then, I've always wanted to clean it up and have searched online for information, but after reading up on it, I felt like I couldn't do it myself, as I didn't want to make it worse. I even brought it with me during my recent move. Today, I felt inspired to refurbish it and found your video on TH-cam. It's really professional and your craftsmanship is amazing. After watching it, I'm even more convinced that I can't do this. It's too difficult for me. Now, The laptop can power up but doesn't have OS. I have a question: how did you reinstall the system? If you have time, could you teach me? Thank you very much.

Nice add...

Have you considered printing the parts with auxiliar support structures to prevent deformation during printing?

Awesome project! 👏 Since supply is scarcer and scarcer, what barriers are there to 3D print the *butterfly keyboard* components?

Man I want this thing so bad. Even if I can only play Doom on it.

Hi, I would like to buy the card and support the project, but may I know if it’s possible for this card to emulate opl 3 and Soundblaster 16 in the future?

yo cool channel bro. I had something in mind that i would like to make

ITS A CRIME TO NOT SHOW THE BUTTERFLY KEYBOARD WORKING!!! I waited the whole time to see it work with the new case, but alas it never came T_T

beginning of video: I really want to do this! end of video: nvm I think i'm good

I miss my butterfly Thinkpad I had in my teens. This really seems like a great way to immortalize an iconic machine, and the metal really adds to the signature IBM industrial design.

Considering what you get for the price, seems like a super cool upgrade for a laptop!

This is just awesome. It really makes me want to build my own laptop from scratch. I'm thinking that it'd be easiest to just weld some sheet metal and grind sharp corners. I could even weld nuts and bolts in strategic places to use as standoffs. If I made it really thick like older laptops were, I could maybe solder multiple Pi's together as a cluster and have a giant battery.

Man that thing looks AMAZING

It looks like sand-blasted because it was printed onto a powder/

Why couldn’t you have painted the 3D Parts black?

I wonder how it would look if you polished it, like would it be straight mirror finish?

This is pretty unique. Do you can make a more rugged framework chassis like as t410-t430 series (especially for the screen? Vinyl, resistant plastic or metal reunforces plastic. Thank you for the video!

did i miss it or did you seriously not fold it down even once??????

Now I know what to do with my 6 year old laptop to keep it cool.

finally a laptop thats the strength all laptops should be

I’m sure you’ve probably seen some Damascus forging videos from a certain British blacksmith, where he usually dips the finished parts in ferric chloride? Then in baking powder water to neutralize the ferric chloride, and then lets it sit instant coffee to get the Damascus pattern more visible and higher contrast between the colors. I wonder what these metal 3d printed parts would look like if you did the same finishing process. Would there be any discernible pattern? Since these are made with very thin layers stacked on top of each other, I’m thinking it might have a similar appearance to Damascus

Could you perhaps have sprayed the interior of the case with a clear polyurethane paint to isolate the case from the pc components? Just curious. Great video. Keep up the good work.

WOAH

im gonna be such a negative nancy here but collision impact would be astronomical due to rigidity, no?, this is protection for the case itself if any, not to mention electrical circuit hazard. looks cool though

That is a gorgeous machine.

Really impressive; just totally blown away! Love the convergence of vintage and seemingly future tech.

Im going to have to check into that printing service! I resin print and sell a part for cars that i sell for $30 each. I have had a few customers have issues with the parts getting brittle and breaking due to heat exposure under the hood of their car. I contacted a 3d printing service to inquire about having them printed in aluminum or stainless steel and their quote was over $300 for one part and the price really didnt drop ordering multiple parts. The part i sell is small and has about 1/10th the materials that your laptop case uses.

What's going on on the side of the machine there? Did you cut the sides of the chassis off? I wish there was some 360 b-roll of the finished project. I really dig the brutalist design.

amazing work! I always wanted to do something like that but never had time or resources to do so. I wonder how their CNC serivce is, if it's good I wonder if one could make custom case for framework laptop

I'm currently in the process of designing a "laptop" with a similar idea to this but using standard PC components instead. One of my big concerns was the precision of the metal 3d printing and if my part would arrive slightly smaller or larger than specified, but most of my worries are answered now, This video is an amazing resource to me, not to mention this project is insanely cool!

Is it possible to assemble the batteries with out welding them? I dont have the skills or money for the equipment to do it right with out starting a fire. Is it possible to push them together and make contact with pressure? or is welding mandatory?

I would love if lenovo made a "tough book" thinkpad that was made out of metal. Id imagine it would weigh less then 25 pounds but even if it did I wouldnt care. I dont think people really put high performance laptops on their laps anyways, and from high school im used to lugging around 30 pounds on my back every day walking home 3 miles with it.

Проект забавний саме як тестування технології. Але занадто коштовний. Як можна довести цей проект до абсурду але з надзвичайним виглядом? Ось варіанти відносно недорогих методів? Ось деякі варіанти: - За допомогою кислот - зробити оксидну плівку чорного кольору як на зброї та протерти маслом мінеральним після такої процедури корпус буде більш захищеним; - Дешево - за допомогою електролізу покрити міддю а потім прогріти для диффузії матеріалів та аби не дуже окислювалася мідь - отримавши умовно золоту поверхню; - Відносно дешево - за допомогою електролізу покрити міддю а потім хромом - отримавши дзеркальну поверхню; - Дещо дорожче - пофарбувати емаллю, яка після запікання стане тонким склом дуже стійким до подряпин (можна навіть різними кольорами зробити логотип) тоді отримаєте витвір мистецтва що не матиме аналогів бо не матиме сенсу; - Знайти тих, хто фарбує за допомогою порошкових фарб та пофарбувати таким методом - тоді він стане ще важчим та більш броньованим, після чого його буде важко поцарапати, надасть змогу забивати гвіздки та колоти горіхи, а ще ним можна буде захищатися від умовного ворога просто кинувши ноутбук в нього 😄

'It was fun as sh*t' XD

would have loved to actually see the mechanical bits in action :(

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The most FCC and EMC complaint computer on the planet. xd

@polymatt, you my friend and the people at JLC are Mad Lad's/Lasse's for doing this

Speaking as someone who has 3D printed a lot of housings, a good easy way to do the PCB mounting hole fitment is to make standoffs larger than you need without holes in them and then cut out the hole afterwards in the perfect spot. It doesn't work as well with port holes on the outside of the housing, but you can still alter the surface around the ports to cut them out afterwards, and a good trick with that is to make labels to cover up oversized port holes. You can even make labels out of metal as a flat panel that can be printed and that will be much, much more accurate than the holes on the side of a large housing with complex geometry with all the warping and shrinking that goes on

Awesome case, stainless needs polishing though!

would have liked to see the closed profile, awesome job, it came out great.