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.