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Re: TRIBALOVERKILL, "Blackout" Updated--> 06/24/05
Ok,... I am a little bit annoyed,... argh. Well,... first, this post is temporary seeing that not all the pics I took the other day were uploaded due to the fact that my gurl didnt upload all of them, for whatever reason. But I'm not going to knock on my bone headed gurl in here. So I will post what I have. The pics that I really wanted to post are the ones she didnt upload, great. Here,...
Here I drilled out the mounting holes for the radiators.
Trying to get an idea of where the brackets are going to go and how big they need to be.
My new brackets. These radiators are new by the way. The enclosure is wider so I needed larger brackets this time around.
Brackets trimed, drilled, and installed.
First radiator in place.
Both rads in place.
I think they came out very well. It only took me like a couple of minutes to do this. I couldnt believe how easy is was.
The other side of the rads.
Now,... the pics that are missing are the pics of my efforts to install some plumbing. You know, connect the rads together and shorten the height of the barbs. Well,... I came across some problems. This is all new to me now seeing that everything up to this point I had already done with the last two enclosures. Anyways,... problem number one is,... I'm having trouble connecting the rads together. I originally was going to to use some elbows, solder the barbs to those and then use a small piece of hose. Well,... that is CLEARLY not going to work seeing that the ports of the rads are way to close. I then went back to home depot and got some 45 degree elbows,... once again, wont work. They are to close. So,... I then decided to just solder the barbs straight up and down as far in the ports as possible and then just run some hose in a bend to each barb. Well,... the height of the enclosurewont really allow that. I wish I had the pics damn it. Some options,... use the 90 degree elbows with a copper pipe connecting them instead of the barbs and hose. This would be the most easiest method but it would make the rads permenant. But its not like I would be removing all that much anyways. I could also,... cut to extra holes in the tube panel and run a loop outside the enclosure that would connect the rads together. Not really liking this method. I could also try and maybe bend my own elbows some how,... there really isnt all that much room at all. Crap. Second problem,... the tube panel, the width is kind of less then the total width of the barbs. So that would mean if the I/O hoses were to run straight up and down through the tube panel,... I would have to cut out holes on the edges of the panel. If I move the holes inward towards the middle of the panel I would have to bend the hoses over a bit to meet the holes. Now keep in mind the barbs are pretty close to the panels so the hose would be torquing the panels a bit. I'm going to have to think something up here. I am goign to post the pics first thing in the morning.
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Re: TRIBALOVERKILL, "Blackout" Updated--> 06/24/05
Ok,... here are the pics I wanted you guyz to see.
I have to screw that in.
Got them in. Easy.
I/O ports of the rads.
S@#$!
I thought this would work too but didnt fit:(
I soldered the barbs way in the rads to loop a hose between the two barbs.
Don't think the hose will bend that much:(
So,... read my possible options in my last update post. Let me know what you guyz think. I need some opinions.
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Re: TRIBALOVERKILL, "Blackout" Updated--> 06/24/05
Ok,... here are the pics from yesterday.
Here is how I will connect my rads together. It's a modified 45 degree elbow:) The barb had some of it's length shaved off too.
There's plenty of room for some 1/2" tygon tubing:)
Yo,... I uploaded the movie I made of me pressure testing the rads but it doesn't work. I think it has to do with the size of the file and the server. Is there a size limit? What is the limit?
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Re: TRIBALOVERKILL, "Blackout" Updated--> 06/24/05
I finished sanding. Tomorrow I will be cleaning and painting. Also,... I will be starting the windows:)
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Re: TRIBALOVERKILL, "Blackout" Updated--> 06/24/05
Here are some pics I took today:) I made the canopy frame! That was my favorite thing to make so far,... why? It was simple! LOL.
Here I am making the canopy which only turned out to be the frame seeing that I decided to use acrylic with it too. It's going to to have a tinted window too:) Notice how there are no round edges? Can anyone guess why it doesnt have round edges?
After I finished making the frame I broke out the router table and put it together seeing that I am going to need it to make my windows:) Not bad for $100.
I am going to make some windows this weekend:)
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Re: TRIBALOVERKILL, "Blackout" Updated--> 06/24/05
This is going to be a sweet update! Check it out,...
About ready to cut windows out of these rough cuts.
I'm going to tape the two pieces together so I can make two windows at the same time.
Now,... because none of the sides of these two pieces have a straight edge to work off of,... I have to make one. So,... I will tape these two rulers together to make a guide. One ruler will be the guide and the other will be a spacer to keep the router bit from cutting up the guide ruler.
The rulers taped together.
Now I am going to tape those rulers to the two pieces of acrylic.
Here you can see the rulers stuck to the acrylic just nice.
Here you can see how this is goign to work. You can see the cutting portion of the bit touching th eacrylic but no thte guide. Once the bit cuts thrugh the scrylic the collar, the bearing at the very top of the the router bit, will meet up and touch the ruler guide. The guide will keep the bit from cutting any deeper. The bit will roll off the guide cutting a perfecly straight line.
After the cut.
Heres the two pieces with the rulers up against the bit again. You see how the collar is touching the guide and the cutting portion is touching the acrylic? Sweet isnt it?
Finished edge.
Here the to two pieces cut down to size and awaiting their rounded corners.
I put more tape on the acrylic and used a right angle post level to do this.
The clear acrylic you see there has a router cut corner I made when I made my case windows. I used the post level to line the clear acrylic with the rounded corner up with the new acrylic.
After the cut. I did the same thing with this corner that I did to make the straight edges, that is using the rulers as a guide. This time I used and old piece of acrylic as the guide. ONe problem though,... you see the hard edge just before the the round corner starts? Thats because the guide was up to lcose the the eadge of the smoke acrylic. The collar on the3 router bit has a slightly larger diameter the the cutting portion so everything you cut using the collar will be a tad bit larger. In this case the rounded corner isnt completely round. Theres a way to fix this,... check out the next couple of pics.
I added these two pieces of card board, which are very thin because thats all you need, to push the guide back a bit.
When I put a straight edge up to the edge you can see the gap. It's very small but its enough to make a perfectly round edge.
After the gap was added. Some advice that I will give you is if you can't get your rounded corner perfect with the first couple of passes with the router and its only slightly off,... break out the sand paper and sand it round. That would be safer then trying to get it perfect by making slight adjustments to the guide and sending it through the router several times. Theres a good chance you will screw it up before you get it right.
Here, using the same method, I cut out the canopy window. I used the actual canopy frame as the guide this time.
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Re: TRIBALOVERKILL, "Blackout" Updated--> 06/24/05
The side windows completed, even though you only see one of them, and the canopy window.
Tomorrow morning I will be making the acrylic cap that will cover the shell. Thats going to be a bit more difficult to do seeing that theres bending required and I have to cut out for the rad holes. Seeing that I don't have a name for this mod,... I thought I would name it Blackout seeing that all the windos are blacked out:) What do you think?
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Re: TRIBALOVERKILL, "Blackout" Updated--> 06/24/05
Ok I finished the jig:) This thing is HOT! Here are some pics,...
First,... this is how you grind your drill bits for drilling the acrylic. Notice the slope.
Here is the othr side,... notice how it is flat. You want to drill bit to scrap its way through the acrylic, not cut.
If you do it right you should get alot of this.
Here I am about ready to drill the holes in the acrylic cap.
Here the cap is somewhat bolted down to the shell.
Heres one way I tried bending. Didnt work to well.
Heres the other way. Look familar? Well,... it didnt work to well either.
Here is my acrylic bending jig. It is flawless. I cant wait to use it. It is pretty obvious how it works.
The most important part is that you calibrate it so that the pipe is perpendicular with the boards. I used the router on the inside of the board so I know they are straight. All you have to do is figure out wher eyou want to bend the acrylic and then slide it in there and up against one of the boards so you know the acrylic isnt crooked over the pipe. Clamp the acrylic down and begin bending:) Sweet isnt it? HA HA!!! You can use diffent size pipes depending on how round you want your corners. Just make sure the pipe isnt crooked:) Peace out people. I'm going to bed. The gym has me whipped:( Night.
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Re: TRIBALOVERKILL, "Blackout" Updated--> 06/24/05
looks sweet. great job! :D
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Re: TRIBALOVERKILL, "Blackout" Updated--> 06/24/05
Ok,... before I go ahead and post the pics here,... I would just like to bring something to Gruntman's attention. I have been meaning to bring this up before never did. I wrote up a huge post with all the pics several hours ago. It took me a good 45 minutes or more. When I went to submit it the site logged me out and asked for me to log in. When I did that I lost my entire post:( I know with some forums once you log back in it will submit your post so that this doesnt happen. Just thought I would let you know even though you probably already know seeing that your the Gruntman. Anyways, seeing that my patience has worn thin I am going to make it short,...
Some sheet metal I bent to use for bending the acrylic. I actually bent two, one being over a larger pipe. I used the two to sandwich the acrylic into its bent form. I did this to keep the corners of the bend from curling up.
The acrylic after being bent. It came out great. Still though, there was a gap between the acrylic bend and the shell bend when the acrylic was placed on top of the shell. I ended up scratching the crap out of the acrylic trying to fix it.
This is what I am doing now instead of bending caps for the case and enclosure. I am making front panels. I am rounding the edges of all the acrylic so that they dont look so hard looking when bolted to the case and enclosure. Check out how flawless this front panel is! See the corner shot! PERFECT! I did this using the ruler-ruler method. The router fence was crap and didnt work at all:( I did it this way because the results are sweet!
Once again,... the ruler-ruler method.
Here is aproximately what the edges of the windows will look like. I cant round the edges of the round corners because setting it up is to hard and I will most likely mess it up. I have tried before and failed. So this is what the corners of the windows will look like. I kind of like it.
I made my own router fence using some strip steel. I thought it ouwld work good but it didnt. The rounded edges that it produced looks like crap. The original router fence was even worse. Look how crappy.
Although a bad pic,... this is what I got from using the ruler-ruler method. Its flawless.
Here is my very first attempt at flame polishing. It was easy! I am going to flame polish all my edges now! I used a propane torch. When you do it you have to make sure that your project doesnt bow because of the heat. If it does flatten it out before it cools.
Thursday is the next day I get to work on it. Can't wait:)
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Re: TRIBALOVERKILL, "Blackout" Updated--> 06/24/05
Quote:
Originally Posted by Draeth
Twice the goodness ;)
Can you tell what the ruler-ruler method is or if you already have what page it is on?
The ruler-ruler method is simple. It's two rulers taped to each other. One ruler acts as a spacer and the other is a straight edge. What you do is mark your acrylic where you want to cut. You take the ruler-ruler and tape it to your acrylic so that the straight edge is right above the line you want ot cut too. You then take the acrylic with the ruler-ruler still stuck to it and send it through the router. The collar on the router bit will run along the straight edge ruler making a perfect straight cut. You have to make sure that the ruler is exactly wher you want it on the acrylic before you cut. You also have to make sure that you dont move it. I use a, I forgot what is called, but its a right angle thing. I used the body of this tool to line up the ruler-ruler. I acheive the rounded/ knifed edge,... I use a thicker ruler as the spacer. Heres the ruler-ruler I am using now,...
Got to page 22. There you will see how I cut the windows for the enclosure. I used the same method. I also show how to use it with the router. There are more pictures of finished cuts using this method. I have to take some pics of how I line it up with the marks on the acrylic. Im going to try and do that today.
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Re: TRIBALOVERKILL, "Blackout" Updated--> 06/24/05
Here's yesteradys update,...
Here's a window withe the edges round except the corners. I like it.
Here I started clear coating the metal parts. I didnt clear coat the tube panel yet because I didnt cut holes the the tubes yet.
Today I will be cutting the posts that will hold this thing up off the case. The same posts are going to hold the canopy up. I dont think they will be hard to make but you never know. Oh, I rounded all the acrylic edges for the enclosure. I still have to do the case windows too, and any other parts I should make.
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Re: TRIBALOVERKILL, "Blackout" Updated--> 06/24/05
Ok,... here is my update for the day)
This is how I got the aluminum tube to spin with the drill so I could clean and polish it as if it was on a lathe:) I pushed in the aluminum with a small hammer where the drill bits groove are. Worked great:)
Heres the whole shot of it. I actually had the drill between my legs instead of being in the vise as you see in the picture. It was some what embarrassed when I was polishing the tube,... but can't quite figure out why?!?!? LOL.
After using coarse sand paper.
After polishing:)
Look at the diference:)
All the pieces I need to hold up the enclosure and it's canopy:) I taped the polished tube so I wouldnt scratch it.
This is how I cut the tube up. I used this old mitre saw. This thing is nice. Nowadays they make cheap ones:( It did a great job but it left little lips on the ends that I had to do my best to get off without ruining the 90 degree ends or taking more off the height.
All done and ready to go. They are some what off from each other a bit but thast ok seeing that they are going to be mounted far apart so I wont be able to notice it at all.
Heres the front panel for the enclosure. See the bubbles on the edge? I couldnt keep that from happening. It's something in the plastic. I tried agaijn with the clear acrylic and it was easy! Sucks:(
See the the plastic is distorted when looking through it:( Sucks some more. So I am not going to to flame polish anymore. Atleast the tinted stuff.
I am going ot try and do some more work in the morning. Talk to you guyz later! Bye!
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Re: TRIBALOVERKILL, "Blackout" Updated--> 06/24/05
Ok,... today I finished cutting all the acrylic, well atleast the acrylic needed to get this thing together. I rounded the case windows too. I also polished the other aluminum tube too. I want to use a pipe cutter to cut them this time. I can polish the marks from the pipe cutter away after they are all cut. Here are some pics,... OH, boddaker, I did what you did! I used the drill and the bench vise as a lathe. I had my gurl operate the drill. I took a round piece of steel and tapered the end and put that in the vise. I spun the tube on that and it worked great. The pics,...
Heres the steel rod after the polishing. It was in the vise.
Heres the rod all polished out. I'm going to cut it another day.
I probably wont be able to work on the computer until monday:( till then peace out.
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Re: TRIBALOVERKILL, "Blackout" Updated--> 06/24/05
First, I want to thank Draeth for nudging me to use the pipe cutter:) I'm pretty sure by that you know whats going to be posted within the reply here. I went ahead and cut new posts using the pipe cutter and it came out perfect! PERFECT! Look,...
Here Im reaming out 1 of the 22 already cut posts. I cut 2 extra just in case. The pipe cutter leaves alot of burr on the inside the the tubes once cut. Here I'm drilling it out.
Here I have a larger drill bit that I'm goign to use to taper the inside edge of the the tubes. This is to remove any burr on the edge or even the outer surface so that the tubes sit flat on a surface.
Here I'm drilling the taper.
In this pic they are all reamed and tapered. They are now ready to be wet sanded to clean up the outer finish.
Look how accurate the heights are! Perfect.
Here they are all finished!
Now,... I have more good news. Tomorrow I will be working on this instead of going to work. This means that there is a good chance that I will be able to put this enclosure all together and maybe even mount it to the case!!! I can't wait!
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Re: TRIBALOVERKILL, "Blackout" Updated--> 06/24/05
Ok, here are the pics. There's alot of them. I'm going to keep the comments short seeingthat I am tired.
This is how I am going to keep bolts centered inside these tubes.
I cut away the bottoms.
This is what I stick in both sides.
I take this and stick it in the vise to smash them into the the tube,...
Like this.
All the tubes with their blue inserts.
Installing the posts onto the canopy.
Installing the radiators.
The clear tygon tubing fits nicely with minimal kinkage:)
Canopy installed. I think it's to high.
Another shot. I am going to cut these posts about in half. That should look alot better.
Here I have the fans with their grills installed. I also have the side panels and the front panel installed. I there are only 8 posts holding up the enclosure. This is so that I can get out the bottom fan panels without having to remove the entire enclosure.
Here's what I thgouth was done. I have to change some things. I have to lower the height of the canopy. Also,... because the height of the canopy was so high I couldnt use the bolts I was using thoughout the project seeing that they didnt come long enough for it. So I started using dome nuts which I like but dont. Once I lower the canopy I am going back to the old screws. The dome nuts stick out to much.
Here are some more pics,...
Now, another problem I have is that I don tnow how I will bolt the bottom fans panels up. Once this thing is all together,... how do I get the nuts inside the enclosure and get them on the bolts that will hold the fan panels up. I can't believe I missed this. Any ideas? I have to cut the tube panels tomorrow too. If cutting the canopy posts doesn't take to long, which I dont think it will. I might be abel to work on the case mounting this thing to it for good:) I hope. But it's pretty much done so I am happy:) Let me know that you think of it:)
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Re: TRIBALOVERKILL, "Blackout" Updated--> 06/24/05
Ok,... here it what I intented this thing to look like.
The enclosure when mounted will be about 1/4" lower or closer to the case. Right now it's sitting the the washers and the heads of the bolts. I went ahead and drilled the tube panel as you see in the picture. I will evenually make a Uv green panel to cover the tube panel. Well,... the UV green panel will be big enough to just cover the holes. It's not like my intention is the cover the entire tube panel. Rule is that where there is something passing through something,... there has to be a UV green panel there. It's to basically make it look nice. In the pictures you dont see the tube panel posts. I left them out seeing that the tube panel wasnt ready to be mounted. Tomorrow if I have time I will mount the enclosure and drill out the top of the case for the tube to pass through. The two smaller holes i said before is for chrome shower hose. Well,... I hope tomorrow I can mount it, Im eager. I haev to escort mom to this awards dinner thingy plus I'm going out with a friend to look at his friends bike. Hes selling it to me CHEAP! So cheap. I love it. SO I might be rolling home with a bike in the next few days. Maybe. I'll take pics If I do. Night people. Oh did I mention I got into a car accident today? @#$%&! It's all good though. The guy doesnt want to persure it. Anyways. Night.
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Re: TRIBALOVERKILL, "Blackout" Updated--> 06/24/05
I bought this today! Isn't it SWEEEET!
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Re: TRIBALOVERKILL, "Blackout" Updated--> 06/24/05
Here are some pics of yesterday's work,...
Looking good? See where the tubes come out of the enclosure and go into the case,... I am going to to cut UV green panels and then bolt them over the are where the tubes come out and go in to dress it up to make it look nice. It's not bolted down yet because I have to do some more planning first. I had to cut away some the the mobo tray whic is no biggie. I just have to clean it up a bit. I am hoping to do some more work on wednesday morning.
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Re: TRIBALOVERKILL, "Blackout" Updated--> 06/24/05
AN UPDATE!!! WITH PICS!!! Here you go,...
Heres the PSONE LCD I took out. Here the back of it.
Heres the front. This thing is cool as hell. The screen is soo small and thin! It's a little monitor! How cute :bunny:! Ok, a bit to gurly there.
Sniper: UZI :2guns: :bunny: machine gun :p: :shockwhore: That's better.
Here I marked where I am going cut. I want to cut out everything inside the tape there. You can't really see the line where I am going to cut becaus the tape is very close to it.
Here's the line in which I will cut. I scoured that line into the anodize with a scalpel so I wouldn't lose the line. I prefer marking this way. I did this when cutting out the windows for the cases side panels.
As you see here there is a board clamped to the front of the case where I plan on jig sawing. I did this because if I didnt the blade would move to far inside the case and jab whatever is in it's way. I had to make sure the blade didnt come out of the either because to would end up jabbing the front of the case possibly shattering the blade taking one of my eyes out leaving it just hanging there while blood spews out all over the place making a mess of everything. Blood everywhere. The moral of all that,... where your googles.
After reuniting my eye with it's socket I finished the cut. Very close to the line. Minimal filing needed.
All done. Actually I want ot take off some more at the top. No biggie.
I left the front panel holes. The front panel won't be under the tinted front panel.
Notice how the edges are the same all the way around. Originally,... the drive bay opening before the cut had nice smooth edges. I cut the smooth edges off just so that the edges were identical all the way around. I didnt want smooth edges up top and jagged down below. I thought it would look sloppy. This looks alot nicer.
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Re: TRIBALOVERKILL, "Blackout" Updated--> 06/24/05
Another update! YEA! A small but interesting,...
OH,... before I start, I had found out the the rear front panel has to be two pieces. I can't slide one whole big piece inside the front area of the case. These support brackets are in the way. I could remove the rivets holding the bracket and then slide it in but I wouldn't be able to get new rivets back in because of the order the case was put together. SOOOOO,... I will have to make two smaller panels. No biggie. Anyways,... before I make those rear front panels I decided that should mount all the hardware first so I am sure of where everything is going to be. So,....
... I started making the LCD bracket out of this piece of scrap.
Here you can see the bracket was cut to size and I cut the first set to bolt grovves. These grooves are for the bolts that will hold the bracket to the case. I made grooves so I could slide the bracket up and down for adjustability.
See:) Very nice.
See how it's going to look,... I'm going to cut another groove for the LCD so it can be bolted to the bracket. I'll be able to slide the LCD up and down on the bracket too. With both grooves, that is the case and LCD gooves,... I should be able to move the LCD up and down about 1.5 - 2 inches total. Why? I don't know:) It's cool:) Well,... so I can have some adjustability.
Here I drilled holes so I can cut out the second set of grooves for the LCD.
Thats it for this update. I didnt get to finish this bracket today but I do plan on finishing it and moving on the other things soon. Till then.
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Re: TRIBALOVERKILL, "Blackout" Updated--> 06/24/05
Hey everyone! Welcome to the T.O. show! Here's an UPDATE for all you folks out there! I finished fabricating the bracket for the LCD screen. Although it's still not done,... due to the fact that I have to drill holes for wires and I still have to clear coat it. But the functionality portion of it is done. I have to say it looks quite professional:) Check it out,...
Here's the bracket pretty much done. As I said before, I still have some holes to drill for the LCD wires and I have to clear coat it. Same dust finish as the RAD enclosure.
I needed spacers so I could mount the LCD off the bracket so that LCD wasn't touching the bracket. So I cut up these wire butts (I think thats what they are called) and used them. They worked great until I realized that I needed more of them because I needed the LCD to stand off the bracket more then it was with just the four of them.
I didn't have anymore wire butts so I decided to go to home depot to get more. I needed longer 4-40 bolts anyways. When I got there and got my bolts I saw these! How perfect! White nylon spacers:) They were like 33 cents for two of each size. Well worth the price, I think.
I hade to drill larger holes through the LCD screen tabs for the 4-40 bolts. Oh how careful I had to be!
Here the LCD is mounted to the bracket. HOT!
Here you can see the nylon spacers. I was going to put 4 half inch spacers between the bracket and the LCD board as oppose to what you see in the picture but I thought this made more sence to me. Even though this LCD doesn't really need to be cooled I thought I would do it this way so that air could move in between the screen and the board anyways:) It looks cool. Also,... I used some washers, the smooth side against the bracket to help the LCD slide up and down the bracket for easy adjusting.
Here's a shot of it mounted to the case. That is so friggin cool looking!
Here's a shot of the back of the bracket.
I got my nylon LED holders today too! These little thing are so nice and they are going to work perfectly!
I didn't get much done today just like I didn't get much done the other day too, but I am satified:) I didn't really get a whole lot of time to work on the puter so that would explain it. Well, till next time, this is tribaloverkill saying if you can't buy it,... MAKE IT! Bye everyone! *credits begin scrolling*
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Re: TRIBALOVERKILL, "Blackout" Updated--> 06/24/05
VFD IS IN! Still has to be adjust just a tiny bit BUT IT'S IN! CAN I GET A WHOOP WHOOP!! Ok, enough of that, here's todays write up,...
Here's my Matrix Orbital 514 I will be installing today, tra la.
Here's approximately where I was going to cut. I was just kind of getting an idea of what I was going to do. All the holes in that panel was really throwing me off. I wanted to cut it so that even though it would be covered by a VFD bezel it would would look like a nice cut. You know what mean? Of coarse you do:)
And as you can see the cut came out very nice. You can see how it's different from what I had drawn.
Here's the VFD bracket I made. Looks kind of like the LCD bracket. This is why I skipped all the photo's of making the bracket. Nice isn't it? ISNT IT! LOL.
The bracket in place. That is so cool looking already. Hardcore.
The VFD mounted the the bracket itself. It's practically ready to be mounted.
Here's another shot. Cool isn't it? ISN'T IT! ISN'T IT!!!!! Joking :D
Mounted! That is so HOT! You'll be able to read it right through the side panel! I am going to make a bezel that will cover that whole side of the 5.25 bay. The all the buttons for that VFD will be mounted below it on the bezel. You will only be able to use the buttons with the side panel off! Cool isn't?? :D :D :D I'm not even going to do it. Don't worry.
Side shot.
LCD VFD SHOT.
BACK SHOT!
And I'mmmmmmmmm spent. Well hope you enjoyed that! Until next time, this is tribaloverkill saying,... Go F@#$ YOURSELF! HA HA HA. Don't you wish that would happen on a real show? Or I'm the only one wishin that? Actually,... there's this video over at ebaums.com where the weather caster guy does it. You should check it out! Night!
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Re: TRIBALOVERKILL, "Blackout" Updated--> 06/24/05
Yet another update,......................... :lol:. So I did some more work today. Today was a good day. I am very impressed with what I had accomplished. I knew exactly what I wanted, so I set forth and made it. Behold,.................................. the pictures!
Today,... I had bent some more aluminum. This time instead of bending some round corners I bent some nice right angles. What for? Keep looking,...
My gurlfriends father got a piece of "I" frame. Where? I don't know. I used it though, to bend my aluminum. It worked great!
With propane torch and a good size hammer I began to tap the edge of the aluminum into it's new right angle. You have to bedn this stuff slowly working your way from one side to the other and back until you got your bend. You dont really want to whack the crap out of it in a hurry. You got to treat it like a women,... you have to be slooooow and gentle 8).
This is what I got when I was done. A little banged up but thats ok! We can sand it out! Moving on,...
This is the second and last bend. Look how perfect that came out!
Whats it for? Well look! It the VFD BEZEL BABY!
I just didnt want a panel for the VFD. I wanted it to have it's own little enclosure. Once I wire up the buttons for it there will be alot of wires and stuff. This bezel will hide all that.
Time to cut out the hole for the VFD display. Oops, all done. I was trying to figure out where exactly this hole would be. I would of got pissed if I F'ed it up. So I decided to do it the right way,......... measure. Then measure it again.
Perfect! I can't believe I nailed it like that! I was so happy.
Here's the bezel all cleaned up and ready to be bolted down. Look how sexy that is!
So, what do you think?
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Re: TRIBALOVERKILL, "Blackout" Updated--> 06/24/05
YO YO YO,... CHECK OUT MY PHAT FONE! LOOK, THIS ONE GOTS A COVER WITH A UNICORN MADE OF RHINESTONES. LOL :lol:. Aaaaaanyways,... I have an update. Alot of work with few pictures. Cool idea though,... check it out.
This is another bezel I made today. It's more like a cover or a partial housing seeing that there is no devise that its dressing up. A partial housing/ cover for what though? Hmmm,....
This cover is for the other side of the 5.25" bay.
You can see the VFD bezel on the left and the newest cover on the right. It's not done yet. Both of them aren't done yet.
This is going to be where all my lighting circuitry and stuff is going to be. I am goign to be running several LED lines out from that thing. You see the 1" side of the cover,... I am going to mount several power jacks off that side. All the LED lines that will be running throughout the computer will get plugged into the cover. I think that it going to look cool as hell to see several UV green lines plugged into the cover from almost top to bottom! Again,... the one idea I had for this computer was that there would be alot fo lines and stuff everywhere, somewhat cluttered. It's going ot be a good clutter though. Originally I was going to make a box for the LEDs to be run from but after making the VFD bezel it made perfect sense to do it this way. So much better. I am going to line the inside with foam pad for insulation so I dont short anything out.
EDIT: LED wires are actually goingto be RED, which is even better:)
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Re: TRIBALOVERKILL, "Blackout" Updated--> 06/24/05
Your work is awesome!
You methods are so exact... even making bends with your foot :D lol
I cant wait to see how the UV looks through the tinted glass. :D
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Re: TRIBALOVERKILL, "Blackout" Updated--> 06/24/05
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Originally Posted by Xato
Your work is awesome!
You methods are so exact... even making bends with your foot :D lol
I cant wait to see how the UV looks through the tinted glass. :D
LOL. Thanks bro. It's going ot look HOT. I think that UV through the tinted acrylic looks better in my opinion. The tint takes away alot of the glare and some of the purple so everything looks like it is bright and glowing but not really. LOL. I can't explain it.
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Re: TRIBALOVERKILL, "Blackout" Updated--> 06/24/05
holy **** man! 65 posts in 1 day, thats like a record!
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Re: TRIBALOVERKILL, "Blackout" Updated--> 06/24/05
Hahahaha, i assume he was just copying the code from each of his posts on Gruntville.
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Re: TRIBALOVERKILL, "Blackout" Updated--> 06/24/05
now this is a hell of a worklog. i mean you got everything from a nice mod to spongebob to a nice bike (im very jelous) and even his kitty makes an appearance :D and posting 7 pages one night, i thought ive been missing out on this for months b4 i checked the dates lol. anyways, its awesome work dude, ure gonna have a sweet setup.
btw why did you put the rads in series and not parallel? you could even set up two loops with the pumps. (sorry if u mentioned it but I have to save reading all this for a later time)
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Re: TRIBALOVERKILL, "Blackout" Updated--> 06/24/05
geometry in nature. Gotta love it.
BTW, that mod looks friggin awesome. Can't wait to see more
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Re: TRIBALOVERKILL, "Blackout" Updated--> 06/24/05
Agreed...awsome mod. Keep it up. Nice motercycle too.
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Re: TRIBALOVERKILL, "Blackout" Updated--> 06/24/05
Thanks guyz! Yes,... I posted like 60 something replies within an hour or two. I did it at work. I was bored at the moment. FRAKK,... I did it in series because, I don't reall know why, LOL. It was the first setup that came to mind. I know I had talked about it with other in the past and we all came to the conclusion that with the fans I have and the two rads,... it wouldnt make that much of a difference. OH,... I remember one reason. The reason was to run two pumps in one loop. I wanted to try out a push and pull method of moving the water. Changing the setup from series to paralelle is easy so I do decide to change it later on it would be easy. But for now I want to try the push and pull method. Thanks for the bike commetns too:) I love that bike. Got it mad cheap! Thats why I got it. I'm going to virginia to the virginia international raceway to race it with my friend. My gurl is going to take mad photos and video. I'm goignt o post all of them online for anyone who is interested. As for this computer,... it is so not done. I have so much more stuff that has to be done. I have some cool stuff planned. Check back. Before my mother got into her bike accident I would work on this computer everyday. I have only been woking on it here and there, maybe 2 a week at the most. She will be coming home soon in a couple of days so I will be able to work on it alot posting my progress almost everyday. This worklog here like I said before only consists of posts that contain pictures. Over at GV,... my worklog is like 35 pages long, LOL. Peace.
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Re: TRIBALOVERKILL, "Blackout" Updated--> 06/24/05
i dont think you would see any difference with rads this size anyway, and the push-pull pump setup is a good idea too. in parallel the heat dissipation would be more even, now the first rad will be always hotter than the second but i guess it really doesnt matter. i really wanna see a nice venice overclock on this cooling :D threads at gruntville get out of hand way too fast and i just thank god its not like that over here. participating in the forums would be a full time job :D
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Re: TRIBALOVERKILL, "Blackout" Updated--> 06/24/05
HOLY COW BATMAN!!!! :eek:
Now thats what I call a Worklog....
Took some time getting through it, but well worth it.
Top quality in all respects.
That case is gonna look SWEET when its finished.
Keep up the good work.
(So no silly games on that R6 ;) )
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Re: TRIBALOVERKILL, "Blackout" Updated--> 06/24/05
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Originally Posted by UK-Blade
HOLY COW BATMAN!!!! :eek:
Now thats what I call a Worklog....
Took some time getting through it, but well worth it.
Top quality in all respects.
That case is gonna look SWEET when its finished.
Keep up the good work.
(So no silly games on that R6 ;) )
Many thanks. No silly games on the R6:) I wan tot live long enough to see this case finished. I will be working on the puter in the morning if I can wake up in time. I have to work 16 hours tomorrow so if I dont get up that means no time on the machine. FRAKK,... you bet I'm going to try an overclock the crap out of this thing! Put all this to a real test.
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Re: TRIBALOVERKILL, "Blackout" Updated--> 06/24/05
This isn't a work log, this is a work story. Keep up the good work man.
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Re: TRIBALOVERKILL, "Blackout" Updated--> 06/24/05
looks so sweet! nice bike.
BTW: can someone explain the push pull pump stuff?
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Re: TRIBALOVERKILL, "Blackout" Updated--> 06/24/05
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Originally Posted by Xbrid
looks so sweet! nice bike.
BTW: can someone explain the push pull pump stuff?
Ok,... push and pull. When a pump sucks in water it's pulling and when it shoots it out it's pushing. Say you have a cooling loop consisting of a CPU, NB, GFX, RAD, RES, PUMP. The pump would have to PUSH water through all that stuff. Water pressure drops each time it passes through a cooling component. So b y time the water comes around to the pump again there isnt as much water for the pump to pull or suck in. Example,...
PUMP(pressure=100%)> RAD(pressure=85%)> CPU(pressure=60%)> NB(pressure=45%)> GFX(pressure=32%)> RES(pressure=25%)>
Now the percentages aren't accurate. It's only for an example so that you get the idea. Now,... say you had a second pump half way in the loop,...
PUMP> RAD> CPU> PUMP> NB> GFX> RES>
This means that each pump would only have to push water through through about half the stuff in the loop. The pumps would be PUSHING and PULLING to each other. This would allow for a nice steady pressure throughout the loop. It doesn't matter how fast the water moves through the loop. As long as you have pressure. So,...
PUMP(pressure=100%)> RAD(pressure=95%)> CPU(pressure=90%)> PUMP(pressure=95%)> NB(pressure=87%)> GFX(pressure=80%)> RES(pressure=75%)>
Again, numbers aren't accurate. Bu you get the idea. If there is not enough water making it to the pump you will have pump noise. The noise is the vapor buubles that are created from the vaccum. I have only heard one stoy of this. The guy fixed this problem by putting the RES right before the pump. Hope that explains. Bye!
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Re: TRIBALOVERKILL, "Blackout" Updated--> 06/24/05
I have a question about the psone screen..are you going to hook it up as a dual monitor or what? I'm a bit confused, and a newbie when it comes to mounted lcds ^_^