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—10 12 07
Busy… But I managed to do some modding anyway.
-I have a spot on one of the pipes that is touching the side panel. The blue spot on the pipe here is keeping me from closing the case. I need to file it down. I was in the garage today and found two 8′ lengths of 1/2″ copper pipe. I wish I had found it $30 worth of pipe ago… But now I’m in business for doing another system like this.
-So much for organized cables… I put together a LED cluster. It was much easier thanks to the new can of flux I’ve been using on the pipes. My old flux was probably older than I am, and didn’t work well. The old motherboard still comes in handy for testing my wiring.
-It turns out the UV LEDs from futulec DO work. For some reason they didn’t like my test rig. The 80 other LEDs I bought worked in it. I wired up 4 white LEDs for the hardrive cage and 2 UVs on a LONG wire. I’m undecided on where they will go, but one will have to spotlight the waterblock. The white LEDs are the cheapest 5mm ultrabright LEDs I could get from BestHongKong, and they are still bright as hell. The expensive ones must be like the bat-signal! In this pic you can see 2 of them BURNING through the HD rack.
-HEY! I accidentally got a clean shot of the CD and floppy drives. The epoxy spots on the CD face can only be seen with a camera. I like the black drives, so I think I’m going to cancel the attempt to cast clear/blue bezels for them.
-New board…ASRock -somethingorother… It has had a few capacitors replaced and looks like it’s been used as a doorstop, but it works. More amazingly: The motherboard is the only thing I cooked. My memory, video, and CPU are OK!
-I made a paper doo-dad to help me with the position of the last hardlines. I’m not going to work around the engine block pump this time.
Soon I will get to use all the wonderfull stuff from Danger Den, -if I don’t get driven crazy first.
—12 12 07
-This is why I didn’t want to change boards. The radiator and WB barbs are going to be UGLY. The inlet on the rad lines up perfectly with the center of the chip, so those two lines now collide.
-Then there’s the layout on this board… Check out my long floppy cable baby!
-Eye candy time! The first shot with the power on AND the side closed up.
-The same shot, but with a black light on to show the colors properly.
-The insides. I have the two UV LEDs rolling around free at the moment. One is stuffed in the reservoir inlet.
-Black light only shot. I love the light falloff on the reservoir. -Eerie.
-I finished the line from the pump to the waterblock…I think. I can’t be sure until I put everything together.
-I also made a freaky little coil to go from the waterblock to the radiator. This is iffy too because it has to squirm around the WB inlet barb. It blocks the view of the WB too. If anyone is curious, YES! You can solder copper and steel together. (-Joke. I got wild with the solder again…) I had to use a prybar to get the pipe free. It’s my punishment for not using a chunk of hardyplank.
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