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If you have a contender for Rig of the Month, e-mail [email protected] with high-res digital pics and a 300-word write-up.MATT WEBB’S
Steel City Rig
Sponsored byFor his winning entry, Matt wins a $500
gift certifi cate for Buy.com to fund his
modding madness! See all the hardware
deals at http://www.buy.com, and turn to page
92 for contest rules.Steelers’s
O-line.Steelers’s
O-line.W
hen Matt Webb moved from
Pittsburgh to Colorado to attend
college, he decided to do something that
would make him feel like he was back
home. Put some pictures up on the wall?
Nope. Matt went out and bought two
sheets of diamond plate and built himself
the Steel City Rig.
For his fi rst mod, Matt stripped down
an ATX case and then riveted sheets of alu-
minum to it to make room for the rig’s com-
ponents. To create even more space, he
mounted the drive bays on the front of the
chassis. With some help from his buddy
Brian, he then bent the diamond plate and
cut out the National Steel symbol.
The end result? A 75-pound behe-
moth that’s tough enough to start on the
Steelers’s O-line—and fast enough tear
up our benchmarks.The industrial design of the Steel City Rig
carries over to the rig’s on/off switch
We were and red power indicator.
expecting
Steeler gold to
light up the inside of
this case—hey, Matt, there
are still a few more months until
football season.Matt created a stencil in Illustrator and
then hand-drilled the 350 holes you see
here. To keep the machine quiet, he made
his own rubber gaskets for the four fans
that cool this rig.