Project: Steampunk'd TJ11

[Fuganater]

Not a big update but an exciting one.

I wanted something to put behind the 2nd PSU bracket that looked cool so I made a stand.

Drilled a hole and covered it with leather.

And added a vacuum tube. I drilled out the bottom so I can put several LEDs in it to make it super bright.

Next up was to mod the EK-Multioption Basic 250 Res. I actually got some of this idea from B Negative.

Cut some leather.

And tested how it looked. Hmm needs something

Got a piece of aluminium.

Cut it and filed the edges

Painted it gold and cut a slot in the leather.

Taped off the res

Pained the end caps gold too

Put it all together and what do you get??

Not to toot my own horn but it looks freaking awesome. There will be 2 LED stop fittings in the top to illuminate the water inside.

Minor thing but I need move the top clamp up...

Thanks it! I changed up some things in an old build to get some more fittings for this one. I'll hopefully have some pipe next week so I can get the water going. Also my laser cut parts should be here the end of next week!

Cheers till next time,

Fuga

 

[Jon_TechRiot]

omg that is so sick!

 

[maxxkillaz]

Loving this build! I normally don't like steampunk anything but this is turning out to be a nice build. Well done so far!

 

[fl0w3n]

Wow really looking forward to seeing the final product.

 

[YTech]

Looks great. The tube for the water cooling, I'd prefer without a cover, in my opinion. I thought it would look more like a sci-fi glass tube that could contain other types of vapours or steam.

I would love to come by your place and check it out in person and probably help out with a few things (if distance wouldn't be an issue)

Could you take some "whole" photos too? I'm curious to see how it would look on a desk at this stage.
In my opinion, the case looks huge. Is this a full size tower?

 

[Fuganater]

omg that is so sick!

Thanks!

Loving this build! I normally don't like steampunk anything but this is turning out to be a nice build. Well done so far!

Thanks!

Wow really looking forward to seeing the final product.

Thanks. Hopefully I get everything in this week and I can finish up.

Looks great. The tube for the water cooling, I'd prefer without a cover, in my opinion. I thought it would look more like a sci-fi glass tube that could contain other types of vapours or steam.

I would love to come by your place and check it out in person and probably help out with a few things (if distance wouldn't be an issue)

Could you take some "whole" photos too? I'm curious to see how it would look on a desk at this stage.
In my opinion, the case looks huge. Is this a full size tower?

I think the res looks pretty good. Will look better with the lighting. I can try to take some. i don't really have a space to show it off but I will see what I can do.

Anyone is welcome if it you want to come to the DRC to see it

 

[unreal89]

I love the details. Leather? haha that's classy!

You should but some fat stitches in it

 

[ComingUP]

Too awesome had to subscribe
Keep up the great work.

 

[Fuganater]

I love the details. Leather? haha that's classy!

You should but some fat stitches in it

Thanks!

Too awesome had to subscribe
Keep up the great work.

Thats for the sub!

 

[Fuganater]

Things have been pretty busy for me so sorry for the delayed update. I try to do at least one update a week but sometimes that doesn't happen. Lately, Photobucket won't let me upload from home. Probably because of my shotty internet. Oh well, On with the modding!


I got a few things in the mail.

Gorilla Glue (This actually didn't work so I picked up a different kind)

You all wanted it so here it is. Copper tubing and a bender.

Another bender which I need to mod to accept the 12mm tubing and a cutter. The cutter is for hard tubing so I have to be careful when cutting the copper.

Modders Mesh

LEDs and LED strip

Acrylic order from Thomas at White Light Laser. He threw in tons of extra gears and stuff at no extra cost

Maybe for a future military mod?

These grills are for the vets on the doors. I painted them gold.

And glued them on. Pics later once they are dry.

I got my dual channel EK-RAM Dominator block so I painted it gold.

Random side panel shot

Added some foam under the pumps.

Got the FC10 installed and the DVD drive

I then made my own power cables for the DVD drive and 4x HDD/SSDs. Sleeved it and make it look as pretty as I could.

I need to cut some holes in the mobo tray for all the cables. I'm still filing but here are the marks.

Now to make the custom front panel.

All cut

Epic fail. I used too big of a hole saw...

Remade!

Perfect fit.

Trimmed off the wings. I was going to fold them in but it would have been more work.

The big hole in the middle will be covered with gold mesh just like the side panels. The entire front panel will be coverd by leather to match the doors.

The big hole looks a bit crooked... After getting out the square, it is. I'll be cutting/filing that soon.

Cut and filed the DVD slot

Drilled all the holes for the FC LEDs to show through

So those LEDs I ordered... look freaking orange again! They say amber though. I ordered some more from a different place, well same place I got the LED strips from so hopefully they will match. They are from Hong Kong though so shipping takes like 2 weeks.

So out of the acrylic parts there were 2 big gears. Here is where they go.

Paint them gold.

They looks good. Also you can see a small gear around the fill port.

I also had gears made for the power buttons.

Thats it for this update. My to do list is getting shorter every day but I keep adding one or 2 things a day... but thats modding for you. Only things I'm waiting on is the fittings for the tubing and new LEDs.

Cheers till next time,

Fuga

 

[almostgfx]

This looks like an awesome mod. Im not into the whole steam punk thing myself but i gotta say its a brill mod so far!

 

[Fuganater]

This looks like an awesome mod. Im not into the whole steam punk thing myself but i gotta say its a brill mod so far!

IDK what "brill" means but thanks!

 

[bamaland101]

brilliant?
keep up the good work still waiting to see taht amazing fished product

 

[almostgfx]

brilliant?
keep up the good work still waiting to see taht amazing fished product

haha yea sorry Brilliant

 

[wabbitseason]

This is pretty damn cool. Nice!

 

[haunter]

very awesome

 

[SilverSliver]

Cool mod. I was worried it was going to look "too Fallout" instead of Steampunk at the start but it's come together nicely. Gold plated/brass colored solid water lines for the cooling system would look spectacular if you could pull that off. Also, maybe figure out how to get some of the gears moving on the side or up front sorta like a clockwork?

 

[Fuganater]

brilliant?
keep up the good work still waiting to see taht amazing fished product

Thanks!

This is pretty damn cool. Nice!

Thanks!

very awesome

Thanks!

Cool mod. I was worried it was going to look "too Fallout" instead of Steampunk at the start but it's come together nicely. Gold plated/brass colored solid water lines for the cooling system would look spectacular if you could pull that off. Also, maybe figure out how to get some of the gears moving on the side or up front sorta like a clockwork?

Moving gears requires far too much work and I do not have the time to work on that.

 

[Fuganater]

Been working hard to get everything done.

Here is the glue I ended up using. it works great.

Got my Bitspower Multi-Link adapters in.

Bit of bad news... FC10 broke. I think it broke when I way trying to push it into the 5.25" bays. its a tight fit and my finger slipped and hit one of the vacuum tubes. Lamptron is sending me 2 new ones

I started the piping. Left pipe is from the pump top outlet to the 240 rad. Right pipe is from the 240 rad to the 480 rad.

Right side has a small dent. I may replace this pipe but you can't see it with the front panel on.

First connection on the mobo.

2nd

3rd & 4th

Inside the case with the 5th tube

Last tube from the GPU to the res

More fittings came in!

Here is the grill for the 50 mm fan

Drain port. there is a T line between the 360 and 480 radiator.

LEDs on

Now for the front panel. I used JB Weld to hold it in place.

BAH! A gap...

Add more JB Weld

And then sand the hell out of it.

Now that that is done I need to add the leather and grill. I like it!

I picked up some old gauges. Not sure if I am even going to use them but they were $10...

Testing...

Add some tubes

I threw a blue LED in the res to see what it would look like.

Underexposed

No idea how to hide these cables from the front I/O ports...

My fill port

And finally I flushed all the blocks to make sure no crud was in there.

More to come soon. I got my LEDs in today so I'm going to start working on that ASAP.

Cheers till next time,

Fuga

 

[baldrik]

Looking pretty good. You going to do something to age those copper pipes? They are awfully shiny!

 

[Alai]

Maybe cover up the wires with copper-looking tubing like for the water cooling?

 

[XXshadowwaterXX]

bending that pipe had to have been a pain in the ass

 

[StatutoryApe]

Looks awesome! I suggest going with amber lighting throughout. no blue.

 

[Quicksilver_]

Very classy. If it wasn't for the problems you'd have leaving that dent in the pipe, I'd say keep it like that. It gives it character.

 

[Fuganater]

Looking pretty good. You going to do something to age those copper pipes? They are awfully shiny!

No need. In a few weeks they will age themselves.

Maybe cover up the wires with copper-looking tubing like for the water cooling?

Might look into that. Thanks.

bending that pipe had to have been a pain in the ass

Bending is easy. Figuring out HOW to bend it to connect the dots... hard

Looks awesome! I suggest going with amber lighting throughout. no blue.

As stated in the update, the blue was a test just to see how well lit the res would be.

Very classy. If it wasn't for the problems you'd have leaving that dent in the pipe, I'd say keep it like that. It gives it character.

Thanks!

 

[bamaland101]

that must have been a pain connecting all those pipes. looks really good fuganater!

as for the i/o panel wires, why not take a piece of copper and notch each side and run the wires thru, leaving the notched edges to lay on the mobo tray and back of the 5.25" bay rack?

 

[Fuganater]

that must have been a pain connecting all those pipes. looks really good fuganater!

as for the i/o panel wires, why not take a piece of copper and notch each side and run the wires thru, leaving the notched edges to lay on the mobo tray and back of the 5.25" bay rack?

Thanks. Its tough but thats the labor of love

Ya I need to figure something out. I'll be working on it over the next week.

 

[dieseldog49]

The only thing this build is missing is a monocle, seriously though its lookin awesome man!

 

[Fuganater]

The only thing this build is missing is a monocle, seriously though its lookin awesome man!

lol thanks.

 

[SilverSliver]

Maybe cover up the wires with copper-looking tubing like for the water cooling?

That's a terrific idea there. Use copper pipe as cable sleeving!

 

[dremic]

blows my mind that somebody is capable of this at all. amazing

 

[Quicksilver_]

The only thing this build is missing is a monocle, seriously though its lookin awesome man!

:O I was seriously going to suggest that too, but I'm not sure how one would implement it.

 

[Fuganater]

That's a terrific idea there. Use copper pipe as cable sleeving!

I'm either going to do that or just bundle them as best I can

blows my mind that somebody is capable of this at all. amazing

Well thanks.

 

[Fuganater]

Not a huge modding update but I got a bit of cool gear in.

I got a Technofront water cooling test bench and 2x new Koolance flow meter displays. Can't wait to use em!

And its Halloween so the family and I did a bit of pumpkin, I mean gourd carving.

She was very interested... made it kinda hard to carve lol.

All done!

Now not to brag, but my wife makes some damn good looking cookies.

Now for the real work... I painted the PSU fan.

Here is a picture of the broken FC10 nixie tube.

Now remember that huge vacuum tube I made with a bracket? Well I got the Amber LEDs in and its time to light it up.

Here is what all the cables look like coming from the front I/O panel.

And just some lighting shots.

Cheers till next time,

Fuga

 

[dremic]

WOW the lighting here i love it. its a little subtle not too over the top. perfect

 

[tvm777]

GREAT WORK

 

[YTech]

Pressure Valves.
Would be great if you could put them to use. I would doubt you could hook it to your liquid cooling to make sure the pressure it study. I just thought you could use them as heat sensors or at least make some.

If you look at some low cost thermometers, the temperature is measured with a coil that turns the gauge. The coil shrinks or expand from heat. Sometimes a heat conductible wire can be hooked to it if various placement is required.

Cooling Reservoir.
Is there a light in there? I think adding an odd colour in there could make the cooling liquid look like some sort of radiating (magical) liquid. Maybe a bright blue-white led to make it seem like a water reservoir for steam?

Keep up the great work. I think it'd weigh a Ton when it's completed.

 

[Fuganater]

WOW the lighting here i love it. its a little subtle not too over the top. perfect

Thank!

GREAT WORK

Thanks!

Pressure Valves.
Would be great if you could put them to use. I would doubt you could hook it to your liquid cooling to make sure the pressure it study. I just thought you could use them as heat sensors or at least make some.

If you look at some low cost thermometers, the temperature is measured with a coil that turns the gauge. The coil shrinks or expand from heat. Sometimes a heat conductible wire can be hooked to it if various placement is required.

Cooling Reservoir.
Is there a light in there? I think adding an odd colour in there could make the cooling liquid look like some sort of radiating (magical) liquid. Maybe a bright blue-white led to make it seem like a water reservoir for steam?

Keep up the great work. I think it'd weigh a Ton when it's completed.

I would do more to the mod if I could. Only 2 weeks left to finish this.



So after years of work I finally made it into the Bit-Tech MOTM! If my like my project and have an account there, please go vote! http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=248935

 

[Segovax]

Nice mod. Love the leather look.

 

[ccityinstaller]

Man I am simply in awe!!! You have done a wonderful job! Do you live in the DRC all the time, or are you there for a work/other purpose? Any chance you can snap a picture of the final build from the same angle as the picture above in 1080P? I wanna use it as my desktop