http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/ Engadget Comments for Zenith 5-S-29 radio case mod explained in excellent, water-cooled detail http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/
Off-topic.

IMO, somebody got to make an analog of that -
http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/commenting-on-engadget-a-humans-guide/ - but for Engadget editors.

Something along the "how not to start flame war" lines... That of course if you really really want informative comments.]]>Feb 8th 2010 8:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/
Shut yer yap sonny.]]>Feb 8th 2010 9:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/Feb 8th 2010 8:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/
and splinters.]]>Feb 8th 2010 9:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/Feb 8th 2010 8:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/
I see what you're seeing but I think that the appearance of crookedness is an illusion caused by the lighting, the camera angle, and even the woodgrain. A careful examination of the larger image in the linked article leads me to conclude that it's pretty straight.]]>Feb 8th 2010 9:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/Feb 8th 2010 11:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/Feb 8th 2010 12:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/
(and desktops are very much alive outside of the pretender starbucks snobs busy taking up entire tables trying to look important, thank you.)]]>Feb 8th 2010 8:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/
Never mind all of these dressed up ATX cases. How about we finally get a PC form factor that's not underdone but can still fit into the average AV cabinet? Something the size and shape of an S2 Tivo case could accomodate a lot of interesting stuff without the need to be encased in wooden camoflage.]]>Feb 8th 2010 1:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/
Otherwise the intentionally gaudy neon lit up extreme airflow clear sideglass "badical" cases housing quad-crossfire and overclocked thermaltake ultra extreme cooling towers wouldn't sell. =)

I actually have all three, a bigass lit up gaming rig with tri-crossfire 4870s and a quadcore @ 3.8Ghz, a silent half-height weaker core2duo 4TB HTPC and the weakest little supertiny Dell Zino HD... oh and a hidden headless tiny HP home server.]]>Feb 8th 2010 5:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/Feb 8th 2010 9:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/Feb 8th 2010 9:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/Feb 8th 2010 9:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/Feb 9th 2010 4:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/Feb 8th 2010 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/
If you read the source article you'll see that he built the case himself... an in cut and stained the wood. The knobs and dial are all replica parts.]]>Feb 8th 2010 10:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/Feb 8th 2010 10:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/
The only ones that sell for the big bucks are obviously the collector ones. ]]>Feb 8th 2010 11:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/Feb 8th 2010 2:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/Feb 8th 2010 10:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/Feb 8th 2010 10:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/Why guess when the cooling solution is clearly indicated in the text?
"He's managed to fit an entire water cooling setup inside, while leaving no detail undocumented in a thorough, pic-heavy walkthrough of the project."]]>Feb 8th 2010 11:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/Feb 8th 2010 11:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/Feb 8th 2010 10:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/Feb 8th 2010 1:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/Feb 8th 2010 11:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/
I'm taking a differnet approach; building my son a middle-of-the-road PC into the casing from a 1951 Philips BX610A tube radio. 17" widescreen monitor replacing the speaker grille, Athlon64 X2 5600 processor, 3GB DDR2, Radeon 4650 video card, DVD burner.

I should have it done in a couple of weeks; plenty of time before I have to pack it up my BYOC spot at PAX East. :)]]>Feb 8th 2010 2:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/Feb 8th 2010 2:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/Feb 8th 2010 9:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/Feb 9th 2010 3:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/zenith-5-s-29-radio-case-mod-explained-in-excellent-water-coole/Thank you for the complements and criticisms as well.

The power supply is straight. Your eyes are getting thrown off by the angle and the curved edge.

I probably should have made a way to mount the PSU internally, but by using an external piece, it allowed me to have the opening a bit larger than the PSU to accomodate another PSU should I change at a later date since PSUs vary a bit in size. I agree though that an internal mount would probably have looked better.

An original radio case of this model is hundreds of dollars as it is a collector's item, and an original 5-S-29 would not have fit the dimensions I needed for the cooling I wanted. I liked the look of the radio, so I built the case modeled after it.

As for the comment about the "encased in wooden camouflage," I say to each his own. My comp sits next to our oak roll top desk and makes a nice addition to our living room. My wife is very pleased with it, and when it all comes down to it, that's what really counts.
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