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—19 11 07
Now that the outside’s all done, I need to post some shots of it, right?
-whaaah (the blog format does not like 600 pixel width…)
-oowhaaah
-oowahwah
-And the obligatory batman angle…
-The Danger Den pump’s all mounted up, thanks to several sheets of hobby foam and that bit of sharpened pipe. I need to flatten and polish the screws still.
-More deadly games with the press. I was cutting the part on the reservoir line that was giving me clearance troubles. You will notice I stopped the cut before the top part became a missile. I’m situated so that if it had shot off, it would have hit a big sliding glass window. I’ve seen one shatter before, it’s not fun.
-I had planned to tap the treads out, and then trim back both sides. I realized it would be better to just solder a sleeve on the brass fitting and toss the other part out. I had to file the threads off the sleeved end to coax the solder into the groove.
-No pics of the soldering. Instead you get a shot of the pipes after getting varnished. I used Minwax polyurethane. It was hard to tell where I had or had not painted with this stuff. It’s not just because I’m old and blind, is it?
-I pulled the hose clamps out of the dye today. I think they are at maximum saturation, because one of them has been in a day longer and they are all the same shade.
-Mixed results under the blacklight…It’s more white glow than red.
-On one of those wacky experiment tangents: I want to try making an acrylic cast sphere using shavings, acetone, and a glass Christmas tree ornament. Here I am removing the paint.
-Here I broke the bulb… Fragile b*stards! The stupid thing has been rolling around in my garage for two weeks, but it breaks now?
That’s on hold until I find another bulb.
—24 11 07
-The shortened T-line connection. Because of the problems with the screw in part, this was sealed with silicone instead of solder. It would be hard to get the part positioned perfectly if I didn’t do it this way. I’m worried about it holding, so I globbed a little extra silicone on the underside.
-I riveted the baseplate together finally.
-Aww, look at the pump getting settled in it’s new home. You can see here I have dyed the molex plugs. Parts are starting to migrate to the new case. -a sign I’m getting closer to finishing.
-And time to find stuff doesn’t fit the same as you planned. The pump will have to move. At first I thought about making a bracket for the bracket that goes on the bracket, but that even sounds like cr*p. Instead I drilled more holes in the first bracket.
-A rare belly shot of the case.
-The new pump layout. It just fits the copper line, so I don’t have to trim the barbs back.
-Of course, I changed the parts a bit, so now the fit between the reservoir and the pumpline is doo doo. I had to get freaky with the layout to get this to work again.
-The previously mentioned freaky bit. I tried to solder the hell out of this part. I hope some of that solder made it’s way inside to the pipe holding these elbows together.
-The green outlines the new plumbing. It’s still a bad fit, but much better than before. I’m hoping this won’t put too much stress on everything with the tubing on. (Yeah, right…)
-Here’s the new part all polished up. It’s currently laquered and drying. Anyone need a home made trombone?
—26 11 07
Huge update: Migrating the parts over to Bloo Balls turned into an all day process.
-First, I cut my freshly laquered pipe. I need to go to the hardware store to get a splice fitting.
-The floppy and CD were pressing against the faceplate. (The punishment for using old parts in the initial measurements,) I had to cut my beautiful machining up. Some Day I will learn to put in slots instead.
-I also had to chop off one of my pretty brackets. That will teach me not to glue them down in advance.
-While the varnish was drying on the CPU block metal bits, I mounted up the new NB block. Check out the tweak on the spring.
-As I suspected, the fan shroud is a bust. The NB block is totally in the way.
-The spacers need to be 5/8″. The 1/8″ plexi I used is actually a little less than 1/8th, so I planned to fill in the gap with some Motherboard washers. They turned out to be M3, so I had to drill the little turds out to fit.
-Ah, hell…Did you forget something?
-Something you will never see unless I point it out. The mill bit I got to countersink the captive nuts worked perfectly on 4-40 nuts too. -nice and snug.
-The CD cage with the freshly mangled screw holes. Getting the faceplate screws on under the red floppy shroud was fun. I had to use one of those long-reach grabby things.
-The fit between the NB Block and the CPU block at least came out right.
-Everybody in…And cable mess (mass?) rears it’s ugly head. Part of why I put everything in the case was so I could work out the Plumbing and this.
-Temporary hoses go in. I have cord holding everything up to keep stress off the board. (Well, less stress. I can’t forget the ~3 pounds of copper and plastic on the board.)
-I had to thread the power LED into some hose. For this I used some thread and a needle. That long dark line across the picture is a needle…a BIG d*mn needle!
Part 2:
I had to do some moving and dusting to get everything ready for the new case, so I pulled my first case out for cleaning. I might as well show you the ugly.
-This was like Hypnotoad, the materials were mostly salvage junk. The black lexan was a victim of a spill that permanently fused the paper masking to it, and someone tried to scrape it off. The clear plexi is PetG from a discarded Spidel display case. The aluminum was also discarded and had to be sandblasted to hide the pitting and corrosion.
-The 3.2ghz system is newer than the one In BlooBalls. The aluminum flat bars on the drive cage are the only new materials used.
-My first attempt at a slide-in drive system using heatsinks and angle aluminum.
-OK, back to BB….
-Leak testing with the temporary pump. I still need to work out the plumbing before I can use my new Danger Den baby.
-1 1/2 quarts of coolant, 500 gallon/hour pump, *ssload of temporary tubing.
-Back on another tangent: While cleaning up I noticed my old NB block was freaking out. It’s continuing to crack up and one corner has completely split. Oddly, the middle layer is still fine.
Power up time…
-I swiped the white HD LED from Hypnotoad for now, and the front USB is still not hooked up.
-Now if I only had a camera that could capture the proper colors… There are shades of purple you are missing from the blue and red mixing.
-HD activity lighting up the on switch.
-The back fan over the blocks is really a purple LED fan, but the camera can’t register the colors.
-Ending on a nearly black shot. This is the only pic I got of the purple fan.
I’ve cut two of the copper lines, but I’ll save that for next time.
And remember kiddies…:D
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