SWEET! Thanks. And for doing me that for me,... I'm going to give you an update!Quote:
Originally Posted by TheGreatSatan
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SWEET! Thanks. And for doing me that for me,... I'm going to give you an update!Quote:
Originally Posted by TheGreatSatan
Ok. Finished the reservoir support bracket. Intricate work takes up so much time. But, it's worth it. The bracket is the only thing I got done today. I'm ok with that though because it looks cool as hell.
This is going to be the two pieces I didnt finish the other day. I'm about to make a 90 degree bend but have to make sure it straight first.
Here's the bracket all finished.
I lined the inside with masking tape so it wont scratch the reservoir.
Here's the reservoir mounted and ready for the next step. It's sturdy as hell, LOL.
Here's the top of the case.
Tomorrow I will be working a way to mount the pumps. Till then,... PEACE!
Oh like you weren't going to give us an update anyways. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by tribaloverkill
your doing some sweet metal work.
LOL. Yea I know. Thanks:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Malatory
Please post more pics. I love the cradle but the arm to it look a bit to long and obtrusive to my eye. Could have been the angle. But then again im also not considering you're having a smoked acrylic in front of that. But thats just my 2 cents I am stilla huge fan arm or not :P
Ehhh,... I will agree with you a bit on that note. It does look a bit obtrusive but not that much. Keep in mind that once this is done,... there will be so much stuff in there that it will be the last thing you will notice. I'll post more pics tomorrow when I get home.
Ill keep that in mind and liek i said theyre will also be ur tinted acrylic so you'll prolly only see that awsome looking cradle neways. Ill be looking forward to those pics tomorrow. I now have 2 mod ideas and once I get some software from my friend im going to draw them up and start modding I hope ull be a tough critic for me as I do admire your work.
That sucks! Try this,... searh for this thread through google and if you find it,... view googles cache version of the search hit. You should be able to see pics. Thats if they didnt block google too. sxenog,... I'll critique your work if you want, no problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by sloth_99
They block gruntville for me too. How am I supposed to show off R2 on the home page when it's blocked?
sXenog, here's your other shots of the bracket.
Sloth,... the title for gruntville is the same. Just came to mind,... I dont know how you would look for each page:( You might find the worklog but there are like 50 pages:( Sorry:( Maybe if you look for "page 13" or whatever number. I dont know.
Cool. Thanks:)
I still love the cradle while not the biggest fan of the arm but it look alot better in those 2 pics. And im sure once you get the other sthing in the case itll look great.
Thats totally ok. I love it! And I love it even more now that I have my pump tower in place:) I'll update in a minute.
Update.
Ok,...So I decided that I wanted some kind of enclosure for the pumps, tower like enclosure. I didn't have a sheet of the bendable aluminum that was big enough for this task so I went to the scrap bin. I decided to use the shell that I scrapped a while ago. It was shell one of three. Before I could use this aluminum I had to bend it back. It was pretty easy. As you can see it bend back nicely.
Here's the begining of the tower. It was a B@#$% bending this piece! I got it done though. One side here still needs to be cut.
After cutting the other side to size I tried fitting it. It fit perfectly.
Here a shot of it with some more work done. I rounded the corners at the top to make it a bit easier to get inot the case.
Here's what I am trying to accomplish.
Here the pumps are in place. Perfect.
I have to file down the tabs at the back of the tightening ring to keep the blue from showing. It will also allow the pumps to sit closer the mobo tray saving some space, 1/4" to be exact.
I am going to make two egg shaped shields that will be merely for show. They will be bolted to the original bracket mounts. These egg shaped shields that i will TRY to make will cover the old mounting post things and the I/O ports too. They will also cover up some of the rest of the pumps too. I dont know if I will be able to make them. It would require me to bang them into shape. I never done that kind of fabrication but I thought I would give it a shot. Let me know what you think!
Well you seem to get everything else looking so Damn Sweet, I'm sure you'll get your eggs looking good.
Gotta say this mod. just keeps getting better and better.... :D
The AN.....TICI.........PATION of what the finished thing is gonne be like is killing us..
wow I had no idea how huge that case is!..nice stuff so far. You should get some gasket material between those pumps and the alum housing--I have the same pump and it has a high pitch whine that gets worse without sound dampening :) In fact some spray on PlastiDip would be perfect for that column--the stuff is like a second skin
Man After that tower went in I have ot zip my lips cuz it looks perfectly fine. I love how all your bends in metal are so perfect. Whenver I sugest nething in metal to my dad he cringes and wants me to move to something else.. Is metal work very hard? Cus you make it look so dang good!
It's not that hard actually. I would say that the hardest thing to do with metal is filing with those small files:( I wish the files were a bit longer and a bit more coarse. Anyways. I love it. I do all my cutting with a jig saw using s fine tooth bit that tears through these sheets and I use files to file the sheets to an exact size. I scour all my lines into the aluminum with a scalpel or a nail so I know my lines will stay. Umm,... yea. It's easy. Bending,... if I cant do it with my hands I use the hammer. I use stuff around the house to set up jigs for bending such as boards, vises, bricks, whatever. Easy.Quote:
Originally Posted by sXenoG
Yea I can tell that by ur pics. LUCKILY for the mods ive got in my head no metal will be required so I wont need to bug my dad ne since im mostly using styrene plastic or wood. one of my ideas I do believe is entirely unique the other was inspired by a picture int eh project gallery.
When do you think you're gonna have this rig complete? Really cant wait to see it done but then ill be bummed out cuz then i have no anticipation of seeing more work being done by you :P You planning to do another mod in the not too distant future?
Wow,... totally forgot about sound dampening. Hmmm,... I have an idea. Once I grind away the tabs at the rear to the ring thing,... I am going to wrap the motor with the foam pad. Then I will cut two foam rings with a center opening being large enough to go over the padded motor. I'll then put the motor into the hole and this way the pump wont be touching the tower at all. I will have to file way some more of the holes to fit the padded motors. Thanks crimson. That plastidip looks sweet! If I knew about that stuff I would of use it for all the aluminum! Sweet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Crimson Sky
Thats cool. The one other thing about aluminum,... this computer is going to be HEAVY!!! It's already heavy and theres nothing in it! This computer is more then half done,... I would say about 60% done. I work on it almost everyday so progress is made everyday. The thing is that alot of the intricate work takes time. Plus,... planning takes time too. I would say very soon. Do I have plans for something else after this? Well,... I have to find another place to mod first. My gurl friends mother is wanting her garage back to store her stuff. My mother will let me use the garage at her house so I would say yes I have plans for other mods. I have several ideas in my head for mods. I just need the money and time to do them. This one idea I have involves panes of acrylic and aluminum. Basically a box where the sides dont touch. The side are like suppended in mid air using rods or something. Weird stuff but I think I might try and tacle that out next. I'm not sure. I wouldnt mind making my own version of an acrylic case. Lots of ideas.Quote:
Originally Posted by sXenoG
Yea i wish I had the time and money to try all my ideas. But im just happy that Im finally going to start on something! The suspended side sounds very interesting but in all honesty I really dont understand waht u mean but it does sound interesting :P
Ehhh it hard to explain. Dont worry about it. Maybe I'll draw it later and show you.Quote:
Originally Posted by sXenoG
Whatever you wish to do I dont want to be bothersome to you ne.
On bending alluminum how did you learn to know where it would bend with the pipes?? did you read up on it somewhere or did you just do trial and error?
I started off trying to do bending with my current project (Mini WOPR http://forums.gideontech.com/viewtopic.php?t=29984) but the bends didnt turn out the way I wanted them to.
I figured it out with trial and error. Here's a link to some pics of how I did it. I have to go to work right now. When I get there I post again how to do it. I think I said how to do it in my log so if you want to skim be my guest.Quote:
Originally Posted by Malatory
http://www.gruntville.com/phpBB2/vie...=asc&start=240
Ok,... it's very easy. First thing to remember is that your bends are going to be slightly larger then the pipe your using to make your bends. Also,... you want to mark and bend one bend at a time. If you make all your marks first and dont compensate for stretch all your bends except the very first bend will be off. If you dont use the actual bend size to calculate your marks too, your bends will be really off. To determine the actual bend size messure the bend, easy as that. Assuming you went through my log to see how I did the actual bends,... mark a line and bend that line. Take everything off the aluminum and sit it on a table. Set one side the the aluminum on the table and place a ruler against the other side so the ruler is sitting on the table. Make sure your aluminum is standing straight up. Messure from your bend line to the inside of the ruler. Thats your actual bend size and it should be a bit larger then the OD of the pipe you used. Now that you know what the actual bend size is,... all you need to do is subtract that from the size you are looking to acheive. Example,... say you are bending a box like the one I made. Your box is going to be 2 x 4 x 8 x 4 x 2. Now,... say you have a sheet thats 22" long. Now say your actual bend is 1". The first mark would be made 1" from the edge. Place that 2" side you just made flat on a table and stand a ruller up against the remaining aluminum to make your next mark. You next mark is going to be 3" up from the surface of the table. You do this for the rest of your bends. It's easy. By time you get to the end you will have extra aluminum. Even if you had a 20" sheet which is just enough according to the dimensions of your box. The fact that the corners are round will give you extra. Also,... theres some stretching going on too. Just mark and cut off the excess. Got it? GOOD! Peace.
I am gooooood:) Check this out.
I ground down the tabs on the pump ring some using a belt sander. This will let the pump sit closer to the tower.
Sound/ vibration dampening:) Thi sturned out very well! Better then i thought! The OD of the ring is a bit smaller the the pump ring and the ID of the ring is a bit smaller then the motor OD.
Place the foam ring over the hole in the towermaking sure its even.
Gently push the pump through the hole. Now the pump isnt touching the aluminum at all. I dont know how well it will work but it looks like it will do me some good:)
I am going to make some retaining clamps to keep the pumps in thier holes. I'm going to use this hole saw to make my bends. It's slightly smaller then the motors OD so I know when it springs back it will be just about the right size to fit over the motors.
First, I make a small bend at the end. This will be the first tab in which a bolt will pass through to tighten the clamp. You dont need to bend it a full 90 degrees. A bit past 45 degrees is fine.
Clamp the hole saw ontop of the aluminum like so. When done bend up. The aluminum is very soft so it beds with ease. I put an adjustable wrench over tabe I initially bent to bend it comppletely around the hole saw. The tab bent back a bit but thats good because when you band the second tab they will be paralelle to each other. If they are not they need to be.
Here the almost finished clamp in the vise. I just got done drilling out a hole for the bolt. Before I remove it I will cut off the slack. The tabs are together at this point so if I do cut off the slack it will be evenly cut off from both tabs.
Here I'm going to clean up the tops of the tabs with a file. I'm also going to round the corners.
Done:) How cool is that!
Both done!
Pumps mounted!
The tower is not done yet. I still have to cut some grooves in it and make look all pretty. Tomorrow I will do that. Till then peace out my fellow modders!
Really awsome you made some nice bends on there. you're making this thing looks os sleek and clean :)
Thanks sXenog. Thats the idea:)Quote:
Originally Posted by sXenoG
Damn mate. This case is really cool:D :eek:
Thanks bro:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Kenjin
Most excellent creativity and engineering there bro!
Very cool! Keep up the great work!
:)
Thanks TD:)
I'm very impressed with your talent, you made me realize that everything is possible, just have to put your brain to work and with a little imagination anybody can do anything.
well done my friend, I can't wait to see more.
people like you and all other modders inspire me to start modding too.
thank you all.
this forum is the best. :p
"Don't take life so seriously.......
..... is only a temporary condition"
I agree.. very inspiring, and thank your for all the detailed explanations.
Np problem guyz! Thanks for the comps!
Wow. Impressive as usual. keep up the good work:D
I've been reading this worklog for 4 hours now, and I'm spechless.
Nice work tribal! Looking forward to seeing the rest!
Thanks! Going ot try and get some work today so you will have more to read!Quote:
Originally Posted by thephreak99
