Project: DIRTY BOMB (cheap and nasty)

[jiggiwiddit]

Result!!

Visited a local industrial plastics supplier today and got a bargain off cut...

Cast acrylic tube, 110mmOD 100mmID x 400mm. This enough to do both res's. I have the flat acrylic material for the ends so now only need to order a smaller inner tube for the graphics loop res. It is very slightly marked but I cant complain for only £5.00

[x88x]

Interesting; so are you going to be doing the two res' inside each other of something?

[jiggiwiddit]

Interesting; so are you going to be doing the two res' inside each other of something?

Kind of.
The CPU res will be a simple cylinder on its side with one of the flat faces sitting flush in the round scope screen opening on the front of the case. I plan to have green uv reactive coolant in this loop.

The other res for the graphics loop will be a bit like this

It will have a hollow void in the middle like this res

But it will stand vertically and be visible through the side window. This res and loop will have red coolant and hopefully a nice lighting effect in the middle that will 'shine' through the red coolant.

[silverdemon]

Wow! looks promising, can't wait to see how this'll look when it's done!

keep up the good ideas and the good work!

[jiggiwiddit]

Wow! looks promising, can't wait to see how this'll look when it's done! keep up the good ideas and the good work!

Thanks
As this is my first attempt at water cooling and it has got to be leak free, Im going to farm the res work out to my nephew Vinny. He has access to specialist CNC machines that enable the precision fitting that I cant do with hand tools. I may also call on Vinny's skills to do some etching on the aluminum.

[jiggiwiddit]

Update:

Been shopping

The M3 and M4 stainless allen bolts and lock nuts have arrived

So have some of these 1/2" ID 3/4" OD fittings

And 2 metres of this

And also 2 of these

These will enable me to work out the positioning for the radiators and the routing of the hoses . A quick check has shown that I will need some right angle fittings but I have enough for now to work out where the extra cuts will be to fit the rads in.

The graphics res is gona be a tight fit. It will just clear the graphics card and the upright inner support frame

Here Ive marked another cut line so that the res can 'sink' into the bottom of the case. I wont cut this yet until Ive finalized the rad positions.

edit:
As I dont have any 120mm fans yet, I errr..... 'borrowed' this from the family PC to help positioning things. It wasnt this clean when I removed it

[artoodeeto]

nice! Can't wait to see the water loop setup, especially since I just finished one of my own. I used about 5 feet of tubing in my crawler, and as you probably saw in the pics, the various components were fairly close together. Depending on where you locate everything in your case, you may end up needing more than 2 meters of tubing. nice work on getting the reservoir material, that'll look really nice in there, and definitely run a cathode light down the middle, it'll look awesome.

[x88x]

Yay for new parts!

[jiggiwiddit]

nice! Can't wait to see the water loop setup, especially since I just finished one of my own. nice work on getting the reservoir material, that'll look really nice in there, and definitely run a cathode light down the middle, it'll look awesome.

Thanks artoo. I want to put more than a cathode in the middle of the res . The effect Im trying to achieve is something like this


Im hoping that if i modify a couple of these and position the LEDs in the middle of the tube, it'll look pretty cool (and dangerous) . They run on 6 volts so shudnt be too difficult to adapt the power supply.

Yay for new parts!

Yeahhh... I still get the 'kid at xmas' feeling when new stuff arrives

[artoodeeto]

Thanks artoo. I want to put more than a cathode in the middle of the res . The effect Im trying to achieve is something like this

duuuude.....that sh*t's SWEET. Hope you can pull it off! although...the LED you linked looks kinda big? I'm assuming you'd pull it out of that housing, so maybe it'd fit just fine. What would be over-the-top awesome would be to wire it so the strobe flashes more frequently when the computer is accessing the hard drive and/or DVD drive.