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AlumaxX

Didn't have a wire stripper untill today.

It took me a while but now all the leds are soldered. Pics of the backsides and frontsides.

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I also attached the aluminium cover to the fans. Just used two small bolts.

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Needed to make a small opening in the cover for the wires from the fan. This and the bolts will both not be visible when installed in the case.

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Today I started with the final assembly of all the parts. First the two hoses from the valves to the back of the case.

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and with the PSU rack above the hoses mounted.

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Next thing I did was installing the radiator in front.

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You can also see the first half of the harddisk rack and two hoseseperators on the last photograph.
 
Okay, that looks just amazing on so many levels of the word!
Which I guess is only 1.
But still amazing!
 
Wow!!! Very impressive work! Its unbelievable that its all being done by hand.

BTW: A little hint in taking photos of bright objects: try mounting you camera on a tripod or place it on something sturdy. Use the lowest ISO setting that you have and underexpose the picture (hopefully you have manual controls on your camera as you don't want to loose the details in the highlights) then bring up the details in software using a gamma curve ;)
 
dude thats so 1337 i wish i had your attention to detail and m0dding skills :D awesome work still looking forward to the finished product now with more anticipation than the last time keep it up.
 
I ran into a small problem today. The two SATA cables for the harddisk aren't long enough, I need two 75 centimeters cables. :mad:

The powercables between the two harddisk is a bit to long. I will have to shorten these a bit, because there is very little room between the two aluminium covers.

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Just cut them

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now solder them back together again.

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I pulled some hoses into place today and the hdd rack is finished and installed in the case. The right cover can't be mounted untill I have those SATA cables.

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It wasn't easy to pull the hose through the aluminium cover.

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pawstar said:
Wow!!! Very impressive work! Its unbelievable that its all being done by hand.

BTW: A little hint in taking photos of bright objects: try mounting you camera on a tripod or place it on something sturdy. Use the lowest ISO setting that you have and underexpose the picture (hopefully you have manual controls on your camera as you don't want to loose the details in the highlights) then bring up the details in software using a gamma curve ;)
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Definately, I don't know why more people don't use tripods or something steady that can act as a tripod and just not use a flash, it makes things so much better.

In any case (no pun intended) anything I say about how awesome this mod is would just be cliche at this point.
 
Excellent job with the tube routing, I am very impressed.

How did you cut the plexi so well? Did you just sand a lot afterwards? If so, how did you avoid scuffing the front or back?
 
DarkenReaper57 said:
Excellent job with the tube routing, I am very impressed.

How did you cut the plexi so well? Did you just sand a lot afterwards? If so, how did you avoid scuffing the front or back?
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You'll see him and a lot of other guys kiss the edges lightly with a small propane blowtorch to help get a cleaner edge and make them nice and shiny like that.
 
Bassist-X said:
You'll see him and a lot of other guys kiss the edges lightly with a small propane blowtorch to help get a cleaner edge and make them nice and shiny like that.
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Another way that I have found to be more effective and less risky of damage is to use very fine grit sandpaper. I've use 1500 grit on the edges of the lexan window I cut and they came out perfectly clear.
 
Amazing amazing work.
And everything was cut by hand to boot! Skills! :eek:
 
I dídn't use a propane blowtorch, because I want the edges to be a littlebit rough. This will make it somewhat easier to let them glow. If you want smooth edges you should use a propane blowtorch for sure. Just like Waffles370 I used some sandingpaper, but grit 1200.
 
That's good to know if I ever do plexi work, I especially like the idea of using a heatgun to bend the material like you did.
 
The installation of all the parts progresses slowly. The bottom section is ready now. I have some pictures, but due to my bad camera and my bad photographic skills some parts look bent, but I can assure you guys that everything is perfectly straight. When I have finished the mod a professional photographer will come to make better photos from the mod.

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Now working on the upper part of the case. Today I had to solve a problem I had because I added a mosfetcooler after I had finished my plans for the hosemanagement. The mosfet is in a very tricky place just behind a radiator. To release the cpucooler and the mosfetcooler from any tensions from the hoses I have made an acrylic stressreleaver.

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From this angle you can see the acrylic some better.

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that's really slick, but i bet it'll be a bitch to swap parts out if something fails, once it's finished.

awesome craftsmanship though.
 
That's true BoySetsFire, but I don't swap hardware that often and in 18 years of using computers I have had one time I had to replace a part because it had failed. I think the mod will be worth the risk. I have other computers I can work on in the time I ned to fix a problem, a problem that may never even occur.
 
I think you mean the cover for the cables. You are free to use whatever you see. The cover on this photo isn't finished completely. I cut of a small piece so it levels with the side of the psu. The opening is going to be closed with a piece of aluminium.
 
yes I meant the cover, sorry for not being specific.


I admire your craftmanship.
 
I think I have a solution for the very short bent from the hose.

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When the glue has hardened enough I will place triangular pieces of acrylic between the seperate pieces to reinforce it a bit.
 
Yes. the circuit board will be hidden behind aluminium. You can see it in this photograph.

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I just want to say that some parts look like they aren't straight, but that just the camera and my bad photographic skills.
 
I had to replace the blue leds in the GPUblocks by green ones.

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Did also some work on the hoses.

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The hose in the lower right corner, from the CPU to the mosfetcooler, will be replaced with a hose that goes through the acrylic part. It's a VERY tight corner. This part I mean.

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and from another angle.

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Just clean it up a bit and it's ready to be installed.
 
Oh my god.

This is turning out incredibly nice. I like the watercooling setup, its incredibly clean, especially since you've added so many watercooling items too!
 
looken good dude keep it up. like that solution to the hose kinkage. i had the same problem in a shuttle. i just put a hose clamp where it was kinking to keep the hoses shape. your idea is ... prettier.
 
Very nice work. Must have been mad expensive :)

Where did you get that water cooled PSU?
 
No updates, because I will have to wait for a new Crystalfontz lcd. The one I had fel from the table and is broken. I will have to mount the lcd before I can install the last hoses. The problem is that I had to buy the lcd in Switzerland, no shop in the Netherlands sells it, but when I have this new lcd it all will be finished very soon. Maybe I could make some action movies from the DVD drives opening and closing and from the lights turning on and off if you like.

The watercooled PSU's are from a German webshop Heat-trap.
 
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