Project: Alien Hospital

[_ferry_]

jeah sorry for the inactive times, but i had so little time and so much work/hobby's. I bought a VW beetle and spend a lot of time on it. But it's mostly done, so i hopefully can take care of this project again All the parts of this mod are on 1 desk in my workshop, so it never stepped out my brain

[_ferry_]

Here's a update about the reservoir:

All the parts together, to see how it's going to look.

Removing some acryl, or else the hose connector wouldn't fit in between the reservoir and pump.

And gluing a extension piece for the other connector.

This weekend i was on a exhibition, and bought these 6 for only 5€. they're used but sharp. Buy them new from dremel and it would have cost +/-50€

And they became usefull to make a channel where i can lay down the rubber seal. Hope it will be without leaking.

Gluing the first part onto the faceplate. i'm using acryfix. Smells very bad, but the result is nice.

[OvRiDe]

Awesome.. great to see an update!

And it goes with out saying.. very cool work.

[billygoat333]

yay for updates! good looking work.

[_ferry_]

Today i ran the first tests to check if the reservoir seal is working, and yes, it is

But the flow indicator isn't working. Well, i didn't expect it to work at the first test. Because it's very depending on flow and circulation of the water.

Overview, the hose is going to a cooling block, for some flow resistance.

1 pic, 2 problems. 1 is the flow indicator which is not working at all. Second is that screw. which i made in a part where there's water. So unless i thighten it well it leaks water. Guess i can solve it with a rubber O-ring.

And hopefully this will become the solution for the flow indicator. A bigger one. It's so big that it once it's on the bottom it will close the inlet port. Due to the water pressure there's no other way than going up. At least that's what i'm hoping
Well, after building it might require fine-tuning in weight and/or resistance. But that's for later times.


edit:

I think something like this will be nice. Not sure if i should spend a lot of time on milling and working out this design while i don't know if this will work. But i have a good feeling about it, and i spend already ages on it

[Mach]

So very cool ferry. I need to back track on this worklog and read up. Nice having you back modding again.

[OvRiDe]

Reservoir is looking great. Now I am anxious to see you tackle that flow meter.

[_ferry_]

I still have to show the pics of a perfect working flow indicator:

As mentioned before, the cilinder-shaped indicator wasn't working, so i made a bigger one.

[imghttp://tweakers.net/ext/f/tt6OWgWHnBmH9dEJLmqrfu0A/full.jpg[/img]
Next step is cutting the side in the same angle as the flow indicator. And milling the inside for a better look.

After doing so.

A photo after a little cleaning and sanding. Those corners are hard to reach

And a polished result. Including a drilled hole in the center.

But i had a problem again, he was going upwards, but only for a few mm....

But there's nothing that can't be fixed! In this case, the hose length and a CPU cooler in series was too much. I removed the cooler, and now the indicator is acting just like it should consecuence is that i should use one of those fancy CPU coolers with a lot of thin fins, causing drop in flowrate.

This could mean that the cylindric indicator will do the trick as well. I'll test it out later.

Well, this is a bit of a creppy setup of how it should look like.

I guess a video is all you've been waiting for:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMOL_U5axhU

And a more final pic i made yesterday:

The 2 aluminum covers will be polished, and the last open one on the left will be charged with a pump-contol-panel. Well, actually there's nothing to controll. Because the pump works without a controller. But it's just going to look like that with some fancy LED's and stuff

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BTW, i'll be in Madrid, visiting www.campus-party.org
I won't take a casemod with me. But i'll might take some parts of alien hospital with me. And do some live modding/airbrushing.

So if any of you is going over, see ya!

[burntheland]

just joined this thread....looking AMAZING!

[The boy 4rm oz]

That flow indicator is looking awesome, really nice work.