Project Steel within
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wassupdoc
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This is yet again a case of artistic vision verses practicality
To hell with practicality
Thanks, its been a bit tough but in the end I think its for the best. Just gets a bit lonely in an empty house!
More time to mod though I suppose.
To hell with practicality
This is a good point. The whole project is hardly an understated practical piece of kit anyway so I may as well go the whole way
yassarikhan786
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Sorry to hear about your break up
. Looking forward to more updates
Well I have had a very productive weekend and have essentially finished the towers! They just need paint and a few cable/tubing routing holes cut.
Slight problem in that my ex moved out this weekend and took the camera with her....
It will just have to be a mega update next week I guess. I seem to be having the worst luck with this project!
Still I am determined that it will be beautiful and awesome and ready in time for IB (I hope)
Slight problem in that my ex moved out this weekend and took the camera with her....
It will just have to be a mega update next week I guess. I seem to be having the worst luck with this project!
Still I am determined that it will be beautiful and awesome and ready in time for IB (I hope)
yassarikhan786
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Yep I agree, it is shaping up nicely. Nice work on the walls as well
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P.S. Is your face okay, nothing too serious, is it?
P.S. Is your face okay, nothing too serious, is it?
Yep I agree, it is shaping up nicely. Nice work on the walls as well.
P.S. Is your face okay, nothing too serious, is it?
Nah nothing too bad, I now have a dashing scar across my chin to show off
One of the jigsaw blades broke and pinged up into my face. Good thing I had my safety glasses on! Who would have thought steel was so hard!
yassarikhan786
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Nah nothing too bad, I now have a dashing scar across my chin to show off
One of the jigsaw blades broke and pinged up into my face. Good thing I had my safety glasses on! Who would have thought steel was so hard!
yassarikhan786
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Haha, I would like to see that
Dr. Penturabo
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Yeah it is hard to see, the sketch only really got into the photo by accident. The mobo etc is all going in the left hand tower facing forward through the hole I cut. The power supply will sit behind the housing and come through cable routing holes I havent yet made. The tubing will also go backwards through the mobo tray and then righ to the back and up into a hollow section in the table top and across.
The other tower has the rad, res and pump. These will again be on show from the front with the tubing coming in from behind. Its probably quite hard to picture without having it in front of you. The design works in my head so lets hope it does in practice
The other tower has the rad, res and pump. These will again be on show from the front with the tubing coming in from behind. Its probably quite hard to picture without having it in front of you. The design works in my head so lets hope it does in practice
Azurite
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Yeah it is hard to see, the sketch only really got into the photo by accident. The mobo etc is all going in the left hand tower facing forward through the hole I cut. The power supply will sit behind the housing and come through cable routing holes I havent yet made. The tubing will also go backwards through the mobo tray and then righ to the back and up into a hollow section in the table top and across.
The other tower has the rad, res and pump. These will again be on show from the front with the tubing coming in from behind. Its probably quite hard to picture without having it in front of you. The design works in my head so lets hope it does in practice
Yeah im pretty sure it will be great, looks very promising so far. Will you have the tubing tied down underneath the top plate then? or are you making a small housing top where you can route tybing and cable extensions from one tower to next? Think that could look great, and your so good with the bending and welding.
Yeah there will be a small housing across the back, should work nicely. Nice of you to say but that stuff all just comes from spending hours on it, its why my updates are so far between. It takes me forever to bend something nicely and get pretty welds. Still worth it in the end, I would rather spend the time on making it nice than rush it. Same with your build, all that time spent sanding is making it look really professional.
Well as its a 9x140 I will probably go for noiseblocker pk2s and run them nice and slow. There are those noctua ones but they cost a bloody fortune! I shouldnt need masses of air flow through it anyway with that amount of surface area so it will probably run cool no matter what fans i use
Indeed its all the behind the scenes stuff that takes the time and is too tedious to add into the build log. Still that way I get to hide most of the mistakes
Indeed its all the behind the scenes stuff that takes the time and is too tedious to add into the build log. Still that way I get to hide most of the mistakes
Azurite
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Well as its a 9x140 I will probably go for noiseblocker pk2s and run them nice and slow. There are those noctua ones but they cost a bloody fortune! I shouldnt need masses of air flow through it anyway with that amount of surface area so it will probably run cool no matter what fans i use
Indeed its all the behind the scenes stuff that takes the time and is too tedious to add into the build log. Still that way I get to hide most of the mistakes
Many nice and silent 140mm fans out there. Havent tried those noiseblockers but they look nice. Yeah covering up mistakes during the prosess it totally legit. End product that counts
Did you check the Bitfenix spectre fans. 1,93 air pressure, 18Db-a and 60cfm with leds or white/black non led. Just 11usd for the non led ones
I will have a look at the spectres, I got put off bitfenix fans a few years ago, the ones I had sounded like jet powered pepper grinders :S having said that they have probably improved a fair bit since then, might get one to have a play with and see how it sounds. The price is quite tempting.
The reason I was thinking noiseblockers is they have nice rubberised mountings and good bearings, I do like a bit of German engineering!
The reason I was thinking noiseblockers is they have nice rubberised mountings and good bearings, I do like a bit of German engineering!
