I had to assemble the tops and bases to see how it's gonna look like when finished, and...more than happy, even the edges of the tops are not polished and bases are just sanded to 400 grit, still lot's of sanding to do. The small imperfections in the drilled channels are caused by vertical drill spindle play of circa 1 mm and the drill bit tend to bite into the plexy and make those pits.

Anyway, I'm more than :p ;)

looks cool good job

Thx ;)

Here are polished edges of the tops, lexan tends to 'wrinkle' on the edges when flame polished, you gotta do this very carefully. Also, one thing I really hate doing while making the block is sanding, so I figured a quick and dirty way to do it, probably sacrificing flatness of the base, but not that much. I used this little sanding device to vibrate the base on the sanding paper placed on thick plexy for flat surface. It worked great, sanded to 1500 grit (400, 800. 1000. 1500) :p

Mess on the balcony and dremelled and little bit more hand sanded bases :D
I ordered some more barbs in local machine shop (you cannot buy them pre made here :shrug: ) and some other bits and pieces, will be gettin em tomorrow, then it's time to seal those blocks and test. :)

wow, thats pretty shiny. More barbs in the local shop??? Damn I wish you could do that here, have to order online here, go on holiday come back, and they have only just arrived;).

Hope the blocks don't leaking on testing. Have fun testing it.

I was lucky to find a local machine shop willing to make those, now they know me cos I'm 'that one that makes funny stuff with 'puters' :rolleyes: and no problem with orders. Although, my new barbs are not finished, so I worked a bit with those old ones. Here's the result, and a 'device' that helped me a lot, one ordinary 10 mm bolt to fit inside the barb, piece of rubber to keep the barb in place and not spinning, and a plastic cup to press the barb. Put it together and put it in drill press, little water and sanding paper and voila....shiny and smooth :D
They were a little bit too long, so I took a hacksaw while the barb is in the drill press and 'lathed' it to desired length :p . Pretty easy and no hassle.

damn, nice shop. Most shops around here wouldnt touch it, nor know how to do it.

Small update, sealed the radeon blocks with silicone and barbs with semi-permanent Loctite. Tomorrow is leak test :cool: :cool: :drool:

hope all goes well....

hope the leak test goes well hope it dont leak.

Those blocks look cool, like to know the temps

Thx guys for the shared hopes :)

After 12 hrs of drying, the silicone settled and now leak testing is in progress...No leaks for about hour and a half :D (in my experience of making the blocks, they leaked only cos of my impatience to wait for silicone to dry) :p

Gonna leave them running for a few hours more just to be sure :cool:


happyhappyhappy :D

/edit: got myself a new chuck, the old one started to pi$$ me off, guess inside it the threads are damaged, sometimes it just won't open or close the jaws...that's settled now :)

It's.....a res :p . Still waiting for the barbs to be made, in the mean time one res is finished and second is in the process. Along with new barbs, a double side threaded fill point will be made, hence three holes in the res (fill, in and out) :)
Also a few flame polishing pics, and the diff of 400 grit sanded edge and flame polished edge :drool:

Thats a cool looking res, and the flame polishing looks good.

You are Most welcome and .... Awesome job!!! :D

Thx again to all :)

and #Rotor, many greetings from this copycat :D

awesome work there bud. don't see to many ppl around that do it from the ground up like you. that flowmeter is a nice piece of creative modding. i still remember that rather crappy looking flowmeter in your first case. you've come a loooooong way dude.

cheers from g.l.

:) :) BAAAART :) :) :) !!!

WOW m8, you just made my evening a great deal happier, it's always sooo nice to hear from the old bud :p

I'm so glad you're still around, and to be honest, somehow waiting to see if you gonna show up here ;)

If the way ever lead you here, make sure to contact me, no matter the time :)

And now, dig out that drill press and join the megafun :)

Thx for the kind words, and drop more often ;)

C'ya!

Got the barbs and double threaded fittings for fill points, piled everything on the desk :D . It's time to seal some more things, and start on those cpu blocks!

insane work...wonder how you'll cram it all into the case, knowing you you'll want alot of rad surface. i'm ready to be surprised!

looking great dude, any updates??

You are getting there- looks real good.

LOL, g.l., remember that I'm making two sets, only one set into my case so there's enuff space :)

Been playing with hall sensor but without much luck, I can make this dissassembled fan to read a rpm from another fan, holding the hall close to the magnet of that spinning fan, but seems to me that hardware on the mobo that count signals from it cannot read small rpm, so think I'll have to find another way to do it, still searching :p

I also had to remove the drive cage and move it further to one side of the case to make place for res. The res will be (hopefully) mounted on the hinges to swing ******ds the case for the ease of (re)filling.

That's about all for now, got second res almost ready, must seal the first one :D

Cheers!

looking sweet man, you got an update?

Gettin there
 

Yup :D

Didn't do much over the weekend, but this afternoon was productive, none the less. Both res, flow indicators, NB and CPU blocks needs sealing between the layers, all the barbs are sealed in their places. One res is mounted on the hinges, and after sealing will be mounted into the place, gotta drill one more hole for securing bolt that will not let the res swing on the hinges. The initial idea (that kickass magnet from broken hdd) didn't work, I had to come up with somethin else. Cpu bases need lapping and thats (almost) it :p

I'll post more piccies of the two sets when I finish them all :cool:

Soon I hope ;)

Cheers!

Finally managed to seal and test 'em all, everything is fine, no leaks. Here are the pics, hope I'll manage to install one set this week :)

jeez, thats sweet man, amazing work nice one!!

Styling it! beautiful work

Do the flow sensors work ok?

Does your wife know your using that table for your projects? :eek:

I still remember my mom after my dad droped a bolt onto the dining room table while trying to hang a light fixture over it. :mad: :mad:


Awesome project, btw. Love the flow indicator.

How tall is that case?

Thx a lot guys :)

Flow indicators for now will only be visual, no wires yet, I got another one made to experiment with hall or reed, hope I'll finally get the readable signal to the mobo.

LOL superart, yes, she actually sneaked on me with a digicam and took a pic while I was working there, the thing is that I vacuum clean everything after working in appartment, and never leave mess on that table (not that I wouldn't rather have a garage and leave all the tools where I can instantly find it, not needing a wrench fairy help me every time ;) ). And ofcourse, the table is not an expensive one, so the deal was that I can work on it as long as I don't leave the mess. Fine by me :D

The case specs are in the pic attached, I actually wanted a big server case with more room inside, but couldn't find one (affordable, used...) so I went with this one.

Now I'm thinkin of better pump... :p

Thx again guys,

Cheers!

Despite the flu, still enjoyed the afternoon, making slow progress :p . The res and the securing bolt, it'll have to do until I figure somethin better to keep it from swinging... Took out the clearflex 60 tubing that I got more than half a year ago from frends in USA, it's pretty amazing what a simple online game (AA) can do... Redhead and Redseal decided to actually come here on vacation after they met us online, and we had a hell of a good time together. They also sent me this tubing, so THK U very very much both of you! :)

Back on track, took out R9800, removed the shim and tried the block. Purrfect :cool: . Dunno if the ramsinks will do any good, but I already had them, cut, sand and glue. Now I have to find some good springs to finally mount the block. Hope tomorrow I'll have some time to dismantle my current rig and put it in new case :cool:

Till then, Cheers! ;)

If you want something bigger, yo could try looking into those double wide server cases that are 16" across, instead of 8".