Hello everyone
At this moment I've been working on my casemod Cubeleon for about two years. So the original design dates back to 2005. Since then I've learned a lot about casemodding and my way of designing en making parts also changed a lot. I always try to be original and I make pieces that take a lot of time.
Sometimes I just don't want to work on Cubeleon, so I started this project. There will be a lot of subprojects during time, which gives me the chance to het faster result en to finish a part within a few weeks/months I started making reservoirs, after being hooked by the incredible work of tribaloverkill.
I came up with the name Phase 2 Casemodding because I want to go into another phase of casemodding. I want parts to be made by people themselves, instead of them just buying parts. I don't think I will start another phase of modding, but at least I've tried then The name also comes from the second phase of water, the liquid phase. I begin this project with two reservoirs, but I don't know if I will ever make parts that aren't used for watercooling. We'll see
With these reservoirs, I wanted to use plexiglass on a different way than it's used normally. If someone is using plexi in het casemod, most times it's just as a second layer between the case and, for example, a fan grill. I don't say it doesn't look nice, I'm using it too, but I'm getting a little bored by that by now. So I'm looking for new ways to use it, and I will start with creating two reservoirs
My first reservoir has been finished for a while, but I haven't posted it on english forums yet. I will now
Swirl
This used to be a nameless reservoir, but for the conversation, it's easier to give it a name. The creation of this res all started with a SolidWorks design. After that I ordered the plexi and started sanding the edges. This was necessary because the shop I ordered it from gave it a rough finish by cutting it too fast.
I printed out a drawing and stuck it too the plexi. After that I drilled through both of the sheets.
And after cutting some tubes, a mockup can be made
After that, it was time for the big 'feature' of the reservoir, a piece of mirroring plexi. Cutting:
The reflection is actually very good :p
This piece needs to be bended, so I tried to create some handles from wood, to bend it within this piece of steel tubing:
The wood goes into the tube like this. I will mount the plexi in between and heat it up to give it a little twist.
This idea didn't really work, because I was unable to get enough heat into the plexi. So I got rid of the tube. After bending, it looked like this:
I intentionally took a piece of plexi that was a lot longer, so I coul pick out the piece that was bended the nicest. This piece was the chosen one :p:
To be able to mount the res to the case, I drilled and tapped some holes:
Now it was time to drill the holes for the connections. I will drill these to 12mm, and than tap it to G1/4". One on the top, two on the botton.
After glueing and sealing, the end result looks like this
After posting my res on a dutch forum, Stievius was interested in buying it, and it's now nicely mounted in his mod Xionized He has won a lot of prices at the Benelux Casemod League, so I hope that was a little because of this reservoir
B-res
And on with the second one It's called B-res because it's the second one a made, and B as the second letter from the alphabet. It also has the colors of a bee :p It started with a simple sketch, the basic idea:
I designed it further using SolidWorks:
Unfortunately I lost a lot of pictures from the beginning, because my XD-card died. At this picture, I've cut and glued all of the pieces for the twist. I've sanded and polished every edge, to achieve perfection
And this is how it looks finished:
This is the first version of the endpieces. Started with a rough cut:
And the pieces that should come on top of them:
After glueing it looks like this It's all wrong, and the glue is ugly as hell:
Because the first version of the end caps couldn't get nicely round, I made some new ones using the lathe at school. I used a big chunk of alu to mount the pieces in the lathe: