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—28 11 07
Yep. That board is DEAD. I didn’t have the NB seated. -too much silicone blobbed around the foam.
-P4 socket boards are cheap, but hard to find anymore. It would be awesome to find another one of the same boards, but not looking likely. -Of course, getting a board that doesn’t have a toaster oven for a northbridge would simplify things…
—30 11 07
I bet no one has ever flooded their backyard in the name of computer modding. -Until now, that is.
-This is a rough fit of the pipe that runs from the radiator to the reservoir. It’s a crazy, kinky plumbing nightmare. I had to rough up the insides of the fits to get everything to hold it’s shape.
-This is everything mostly soldered. The little part goes from the CPU block to the NB block. It’s useless now, but may get chopped up to use elsewhere.
-There was so much to solder on this crazy part that I couldn’t get one bit. It was upside-down when I was doing this and the flux burned off. This is the result of a soapy water leak test on that fitting. I needed to do a splice to correct something too.
-And now some blurry shots of the faceplate and buttons getting glued on. I used a tiny bit of clear epoxy, braced the parts in place with cardboard, and left the house for the day. (This stuff stinks, so I waited for a day I wouldn’t be home to do it.)
-Done, and blurry.
-blurry shot of the CD tray out. Here you can see I was quick-booting with Geexbox instead of checking my temps. Yep! I got sloppy, and paid for it. I was so pumped about how it looked that I forgot to test everything first.
-The two lines that needed corrective splicing. The heat darkened the lacquer on the long one.
-Now, here’s a problem. The flux from soldering forms a black gunk inside the pipe. A standard snakebrush didn’t work, so I tried the ball end of a bass guitar string. It worked better, but only went in about 3 corners deep. I need a way to get the rest of the grime out of the line.
-Right now it’s in the yard, hooked to the hose and a high pressure nozzle. It’s now a very expensive but inefficient garden sprinkler.
—2 12 07
-This is part of the reason why I’m having trouble fitting the pipes. The fittings aren’t exactly square, or even a little square.
-I put together PART of the pipe that goes to the cpu block. I can’t finish this completely ’til I get the new motherboard.
-I’m doing all this plumbing and I never show you. (It is hard to take pics and operate a blowtorch.) It’s fairly simple, but I will show the steps anyway. In this pic I have added the acid flux to the parts of the pipe that will be soldered together, (with the crappy half-brush that comes with the flux.)
-Now I’m-HEY! where’d the flame go? It dissapeared in the flash. I’m using an ordinary propane torch to heat the pipe.
-(simulated) application of solder to the heated joint. I have been smearing the solder on heavy because of the number of joints and how close they are to each other.
-The kind-of finished part with some new clip bases.
-The sketched outline of part two of the clips.
-I needed some polyethylene spacers for the clips. I went right to my favorite scource: conditioner bottles.
The spacers keep the clips tight while keeping the two plexi parts from rubbing together.
-All the finished bits together. -and the washers smell spring fresh! Yum!
Here’s how they work…
-closed (duUhr!)
-opening…
-Open. The little flat cam on the bottom of the red part kicks the pipe out.
-I popped a rivet on the fillport clip first.
-A riveted and polished clip. I had to rivet these together before I glued them into place.
-The first clip glued in (and a blurry shot of it.)
-More fitting issues… The masked stick of plexi represents the side panel. I made the last bend to the reservoir too long, and the tubing in the test fit is tweaking like mad. No big problem. The pipes can also be DE-soldered. You just heat the spot you want apart up and pull it apart. Use two pairs of pliers to handle the pipe. I’m not manly enough to try it with my bare hands, so don’t try it.
-The back clips glued in place.
-two of the pipes in position. The pipe near the radiator is hitting a support brace I made, so I will need to trim stuff next.
-what the heck, 500 pics, -why not one more extra.
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