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—6 11 07
-Wheeeee!
Danger Den Is sponsoring this build!
Thank you Danger Den, and thank you Dan, for putting up with my incredibly inept E-mails!
—10 11 07
This is going to be one of those ‘I did tons of little, boring stuff’ kind of posts.
I’ve been trimming and polishing screws…
Checking the front porch for deliveries…
Re-sanding and polishing stuff I scuffed…
Checking for the mailman…
Did some real work…
check…
-My bread knife lathe bit worked out OK. I managed to make 8 risers, and it still has an edge.
-4 of the risers had a layer left off so I could put a mounting base on them. Two can work for wire management, and I think the other two will mount one of the blue cold-cathode tubes.
-I might have found a possible thermal expansion bottle. It’s a little stiff, but this polyethylene vacuum hose would work if I can cap the ends. -Like it didn’t look like a vac enough.
-I’ve been putting this part off for a while. I needed to drill holes where the screws pass through the…expansion port-card-mount-thingie.
-Here’s the problem. The bit is too short. I scratched the edge up doing this. The back panel is beat up anyway.
-I’m cleaning up the back panel now, and I finally removed the masking.
Anyway, that’s it. I’m going to check the front porch. They deliver the mail at midnight too, right?
—13 11 07
After a long day of digging up concrete, I found Santa Claus had visited!
My sponsorship package from DangerDen arrived!!!!
The first thing out of the box was…
-Styrofoam peanuts. (Yes, I’m being a tease.)
-A buttload of hose clamps. Remember: I have twice the normal amount of hose connections because of the copper pipe.
-12 feet of Tygon tubing. (It’s actually closer to 13 feet.) MAN, this stuff is thick! It has a lot more ‘grip’ than pvc tubing too. I hope I never have to pull any off the barbs. There’s enough here to supply this rig and my next build.
-32 ounces of PC Chill coolant in NEON RED! This will look crazy on the copper blocks! -especially with UV LEDs lighting it up.
-A super sweet Laing DDC 2 12V pump! Yep! I’m still teasing you.
-Here it is out of the box. It’s fairly heavy for such a tiny unit. Compact and powerful… Exactly what I need!
-Just for you- The rarely seen underbelly. It came with a big square of adhesive-backed velcro, but I need to come up with something else to mount it.
-Here it is sitting on it’s future home. I just need to figure out HOW I will mount it there. I pulled some rubber grommets from one of the systems I gutted last week. That might be my best option.
I would like to thank DangerDen again for hooking me up with some sweet hardware!
Go check them out! They have a lot more than just their sexy waterblocks!
Oh! I did do some building this week. (very little)
I started out trying to find something I could use to cap the vacuum hose. I found a roll-on deodorant ball that fit perfectly, but looked obscene. It gave me a rough estimate of the inner diameter of the hose, so I cut some caps out of plexi.
-Cutting up an old chunk of plexi.
-This stuff has a much deeper color than the Chemcast brand, and reflects UV light much better. (The camera can’t photograph fluorescents well.) This stuff was the reason the Chemcast was such a big dissapointment to me. -Rant over.
-Here’s the first cap in the tube for a test fit. It still looks kind of wrong. The little hole doesn’t help…
—17 11 07
Wierd…I thought I’d at least get a ”what?” over the acordion bottle.
Sorry I haven’t updated in a while. Sometimes I actually have to do some work. That’s stuff’s done now. Time to build sh–tuff.
-I couldn’t resist. I had to try using one of the big blades as a lathe bit. I needed to put a 45 degree bevel on the hose cap. In the background you can see I’m hoarding ABS from old pc’s for my next build.
-For the hose barb I used…Light Brite pegs. I drilled a tiny hole through them and glued them in place. The end cap is already glued into the hose, but I have developed a problem with my idea. How do I vent the silcone fumes through that single tiny hole?
-More fins? Because of the tilt in the tile saw, I needed to sand the ends down.
-Here’s the fins glued in place. I have been trying to save you from having to see the ugly 70’s walpaper up to now, but the vanity mirror has betrayed me here.
-Because that new set of fins is just asking for someone to snap them off, I added smaller supports to strengthen them. Here I’m gluing some extra spacers from the codpiece in place.
-And here are the 2nd fins glued on. They are shorter than the main case fins so I will have room for the pop riveter near the top.
-For my wicked new Danger Den Pump, I need a mounting bracket. (To mount to the other mounting bracket?)
-Much Rotozip carnage today. Here the plate is prepped to cut out the center. The plan is to have the pump seated on foam and rubber grommets on this plate, then more foam between it and the main baseplate.
-The collection of broken belt sander belts came out to help me round the hole.
-Here’s the pump with the mounting boots I scavanged from an old Compaq. That’s where I’m at right now.
-I had to do this… I put some of the new coolant in the NB block to see what it would look like. Magenta and copper go well together.
The hose clamps are soaking in a jar of dye right now. I had a feeling they were the same material as molex plugs when I requested them, and I was right.
I need to re-make my pipe mounts. They don’t work as well as I would like. But the outside is now 100% done!
-And in case you missed it…:D
Thank you Danger Den!
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