Small remark on the side: Isopropanol actually does work! It did however take 2 days before the paint started to peel off. It's less messy than the nail polish remover where the paint became half liquid and left marks behind...
Hoefer.de is a German chemistry web shop and they sell 6 liters for 22 euros, which is the cheapest I could find it! (making it cheaper than acetone and I can still use it to clean cpu's, gpu's etc.!)
I have removed the front USB and the front panel from the case because I saw some rust stains. I guess they got wet when I filled up the loop somehow the first time, so I have to ditch this part to avoid shorting, just to be safe...
Meanwhile the system is running again, with the mobo sitting on an antistatic mat to rule out case shorting. I still used my own cables since I don't think they were the culprit after all. It's running some benchmarks in the meantime
As I decided to ditch the original front panel idea, since it takes up too much space and since it had become wet --> the res needs to be moved about 1 cm away from the front of the case, which in turn blocks the GPU. It's a tight fit! To remedy this, I cut out the front IO of an old Gigabyte case I had lying around, which was my original plan if all else failed anyway.
Since this layout renders the original button useless, I decided to hot glue a white LED into it, to keep some of the original look.
I also have the first results of the isopropanol soaked side window
. I'm hoping to get all of the panels transparent like that one. I will then paint them blue/black from the inside ;-), more or less like the blue mac pro g3, which is a bit too greenish for my taste