Meet the Modder: Joe 'JR23' Robey

This is one of my favourite parts of Meet the Modder, having a nosey around the house to see what goodies I can find. The pictures that modders post are always set up so you only see what they want you to see; I get the chance to see everything else and then show you guys!

Straight away when walking through the door, there is a whole load of PET sleeving on the table. All of this is MDPC-X sleeving and is for up and coming builds. Whether they are Parvum or just JR23 builds, sleeving plays a big part.

In the living room, there are two PCs just chilling out under the window. There are another two cases on the floor just waiting to get some love. The ITX case is actually the first Chocolate Box!

Moving upstairs, we get into Joe's office/bedroom/workshop and see Chocolate Box as it currently stands. I have seen this multiple times, and it is one of my favourite little ITX builds.

Furia is currently in bits waiting for a new CPU before it can be put back together. Seeing this stripped down shows the amount of work that has gone into it.

A lot of Joe's goodies are stored up in the spacious loft that he has. In here, it is just a geek's paradise. There are limited edition EK water blocks, a few GTX 1080 Tis, and even a Titan X Pascal.

The only non-Parvum case that I saw whilst looking around is this rather nice CaseLabs Bullet which is being used alongside the new EK aluminium liquid-cooling sets that I mentioned earlier. This is what we were using the lathe for!

Oh, and of course, Joe has four samples of a fairly rare card, the MSI GTX 780 Ti Lightning.

Joe also has boxes and boxes of screws. All of these have hexagonal heads, so we can see why he loves his Allen keys so much!

Next, I popped outside to the shed. Although small, it is well laid out with plenty of equipment.

There is the pillar drill and lathe that we used earlier and plenty of other tools kicking around. There are three large tool chests overflowing with goodies.As always, a Dremel was found on the work bench too - does any modder not have one?

I was really interested in Joe's hobby. Old engines sound rather strange, so he opened up his rather large garage and another shed. Inside these, there were just old engines everywhere. Seriously, there were hundreds. All of the engines can be started (although some are currently being worked on) and Joe set about making sure I could see one working. He dragged one of them out into the garden so he could have a play with it.

It is a thing of rustic beauty. This one is 101 years old uses all original parts. It isn't very powerful at all and is as less than efficient in any way. Joe managed to find some petrol (covering himself in it in the process) and started it up.

Look at that baby run! Four brake horsepower right there - hold on to your helmets!

As always, a huge thank you to Joe 'JR23' Robey for letting me nosey around the house and letting me play with the power tools. It is always a pleasure!