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Project: Beast III
- Thread starter Stevennoland
- Start date
OofC_S7v7N
Gawd
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I just cant believe! UPDATES!
morpheus6d9
[H]ard|Gawd
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those rocketfish cases look good might have to look into getting one
Stevennoland
Limp Gawd
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Good luck finding a new one. Best Buy quit selling them months ago.
wow, i'm kinda confused... i read through the entire thread in a day... you've done a bloody amazing job on beast 3, i'm just kinda confused as to whether it got finished or not, or whether its been just sitting around for ages... i'd love to see what you do with the door rad as well as those passive radiators, or even just have a figure of how much that case weighed fully loaded with all the loops filled... again, great job on this, and it definately has to be one of the most impressive mods i've ever seen...
Stevennoland
Limp Gawd
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Sorry it has been so long. I didnt want to tease you with half finished pieces.
Thanks again for all the nice comments.
On with the update.
These are steel posts that will be used to hold the filters into the plexiglass.
I then turned back the shoulder
Ground the top
Then the bottom
Then added a 4-40 tapped hole
Here is the magnet that will hold the post (1/4 diameter by about .100 long)
Post and mag
Here is a tiny counterbore for the post to seat in
This is the other side for the flat head 4-40 screw
Post in place
Screwed
To aid in removing the filter I machined a notch for my fingernail
Next is an update on the fenders for my wheels (I know, this is over the top, but hey, its my project. Dont force me to make some spinners for the wheels LOL). First I started with a ring with a tube thickness of .100 and about 1.1 long
I then added a hole for a screw so I could hold it while machining
I needed some way to hold this thing, so on with the fixture. First, block .
Then I bored a half moon for the fender to seat in (and a tapped hole)
Fender sitting in fixture
I then made a clamp to hold the fender to the fixture
Counterbored a hole for the screw
With screw
Clamp in fender
With screw
This is a shot of the fender and the spacer
Side view
Here is the fender affixed to the fixture
Nice flush fit eh?
I then used a band saw to cut the fender and then used an endmill to machine the end to size
I then used the same fixture and bored an arc into the side of the filter (I was shooting for a sweeping peak look)
The lot (this is all I have done with the fenders)
In an earlier post I showed four plexiglass pieces and some aluminum for the bottom assembly (plexi to hold the filters).
This is the back piece update.
I was originally going to place fittings on the bottom of the plexiglass PSU/manifold, but I ran out of room. So with the bottom assembly, I decided to incorporate feeds for the inlet and outlet.
Long feed hole
Screw holes
Side view
Cross hole
Since this will be under the PSU, I knew I would be cramped for room, so I angled the fitting connector spots
Close-up
Fitting
I angled the side of the ends (Ill explain in detail what the angle is for later, much later)
I then tapped a G1/4 to close off the feed and return hole
I then drilled a 3/16 hole for the corner (to reduce cracking) and a ½ hole to help rough cut the U out
Here is a shot after I finished machining the slot to size
Here is a shot of the Back B3 (this is a spacer between the bottom plexi and the PSU/manifold back plate)
Thru and screw holes
Here is a shot of the bottom plexi (look similar?)
Back B3 set in place
Here is a shot of my extra fittings box
Some shots of my work. Here is the CNC mill I earn a living with (no, its not mine)
My toolboxes
Our manual mill (this is where all of the square parts for the Beasts have originated)
And lastly, our trusty manual lathe (this is where 99.9% of the round Beasts parts came from)
Thats all for now. Im still plugging away.
I did get my new X58 mobo (Asus Rampage II Extreme)and 6gb of mem (vanilla 1600Mhz Corsair) to go with my i7 920 proc. These are incremental upgrades to my current Beast 2.75 . I also picked up another GTX 280 so I can finally do SLI . Yea!! Im planning on watercooling that beast with all the leftovers from Beast 2.5 . Ill do a worklog for that one when I get rolling on her.
Stay tuned.
Thanks again for all the nice comments.
On with the update.
These are steel posts that will be used to hold the filters into the plexiglass.
I then turned back the shoulder
Ground the top
Then the bottom
Then added a 4-40 tapped hole
Here is the magnet that will hold the post (1/4 diameter by about .100 long)
Post and mag
Here is a tiny counterbore for the post to seat in
This is the other side for the flat head 4-40 screw
Post in place
Screwed
To aid in removing the filter I machined a notch for my fingernail
Next is an update on the fenders for my wheels (I know, this is over the top, but hey, its my project. Dont force me to make some spinners for the wheels LOL). First I started with a ring with a tube thickness of .100 and about 1.1 long
I then added a hole for a screw so I could hold it while machining
I needed some way to hold this thing, so on with the fixture. First, block .
Then I bored a half moon for the fender to seat in (and a tapped hole)
Fender sitting in fixture
I then made a clamp to hold the fender to the fixture
Counterbored a hole for the screw
With screw
Clamp in fender
With screw
This is a shot of the fender and the spacer
Side view
Here is the fender affixed to the fixture
Nice flush fit eh?
I then used a band saw to cut the fender and then used an endmill to machine the end to size
I then used the same fixture and bored an arc into the side of the filter (I was shooting for a sweeping peak look)
The lot (this is all I have done with the fenders)
In an earlier post I showed four plexiglass pieces and some aluminum for the bottom assembly (plexi to hold the filters).
This is the back piece update.
I was originally going to place fittings on the bottom of the plexiglass PSU/manifold, but I ran out of room. So with the bottom assembly, I decided to incorporate feeds for the inlet and outlet.
Long feed hole
Screw holes
Side view
Cross hole
Since this will be under the PSU, I knew I would be cramped for room, so I angled the fitting connector spots
Close-up
Fitting
I angled the side of the ends (Ill explain in detail what the angle is for later, much later)
I then tapped a G1/4 to close off the feed and return hole
I then drilled a 3/16 hole for the corner (to reduce cracking) and a ½ hole to help rough cut the U out
Here is a shot after I finished machining the slot to size
Here is a shot of the Back B3 (this is a spacer between the bottom plexi and the PSU/manifold back plate)
Thru and screw holes
Here is a shot of the bottom plexi (look similar?)
Back B3 set in place
Here is a shot of my extra fittings box
Some shots of my work. Here is the CNC mill I earn a living with (no, its not mine)
My toolboxes
Our manual mill (this is where all of the square parts for the Beasts have originated)
And lastly, our trusty manual lathe (this is where 99.9% of the round Beasts parts came from)
Thats all for now. Im still plugging away.
I did get my new X58 mobo (Asus Rampage II Extreme)and 6gb of mem (vanilla 1600Mhz Corsair) to go with my i7 920 proc. These are incremental upgrades to my current Beast 2.75 . I also picked up another GTX 280 so I can finally do SLI . Yea!! Im planning on watercooling that beast with all the leftovers from Beast 2.5 . Ill do a worklog for that one when I get rolling on her.
Stay tuned.
Swingline(Red)
n00b
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- Jan 29, 2008
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- 61
Wow...so exciting to see an update for this. I can't wait to see the end result one day.
digital_exhaust
[H]ard|DCer of the Month - May 2008
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- Aug 14, 2006
- Messages
- 6,903
Of course we will.... and awesome update as usual.
Love this worklog man, I really do.
jmroberts70
2[H]4U
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AWESOME to see more pics!! Worth the wait. Thanks so much for showing your workshop too!!
formula409
Limp Gawd
- Joined
- Apr 7, 2005
- Messages
- 311
Dude..someone is gonna come for you, place you in a shop with The Beast, clamp your eyes open, give you intravenous energy drink of some sort and make you complete this project before they go mad insane!!!! No really dude...i know life gets in the way of stuff, but this case is too awesome to just drop the ball...I hope you get to complete it. It is pretty awesome work.
andrew911tt
Limp Gawd
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- Apr 13, 2005
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- 449
awesome
Just awesome
Just awesome
Riboild
Limp Gawd
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- Jun 22, 2005
- Messages
- 200
I almost swore I was looking at pics of my former "chop" shop... I actually had to take out pics of where I used to work cause it looked so damn identical. Even down to the vertical mill. Ours was positioned in same way and had that wretched tapjuice spray all over the bricks lol(mix of rapid tap and water soluble oil 
) I miss being able to walk into a fully equipped shop and making just about anything outta anything and of course doing it within .0001" tolerance!!! hahah don't even get me started on stuff that was in the millionths.
Great work of course, and I truly look forward to your next installments!!!
What kind of calipers are you using btw?
) I miss being able to walk into a fully equipped shop and making just about anything outta anything and of course doing it within .0001" tolerance!!! hahah don't even get me started on stuff that was in the millionths.Great work of course, and I truly look forward to your next installments!!!
What kind of calipers are you using btw?