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Project Red Mist - Part 3: Rigid Tubing

2014-04-19
what is going on guys Jay here with Jays two cents bringing you an update on project red missed part three now we got some stuff going on here with the rigid tubing didn't get as much done as I would have liked to have but anyway I'm going to bring you a small update just showing you what we did manage to get done before I get into this I just want to go ahead and let you guys know that I am going to be heading to Chicago this week for the entire week got some videos queued up for you guys but this is going to be a short update here on part three didn't get a whole lot done and the reason for that is the buyer decided he wants to go with the new PE TG tubing which is not acrylic it's supposed to be a better material harder material supposed to bend a little bit better so anything that you see here tubing wise is pretty much just a mock-up where I'm getting all my planning ready which I mentioned in part 2 planning is key especially when once you bend this stuff it never goes back straight so you're kind of stuck with it so what do we get done this time around all right so this time around as you can see here we do have a piece of acrylic tubing that's got kind of a funky Bend in there I like the way that that looks because I want to try and keep as many right angles as I can in this and as I mentioned this is just a mock-up this is not perfect by any means in fact the bend right here I'm not too happy with the problem with that is I've got a 90 followed by another 90 going to you know completely perpendicular to each other which makes a very difficult Bend especially since when you heat up this part of the acrylic right here to get this Bend inevitably it's going to heat up this part a little bit which causes it to lose some of its nice squared you know perfect tea angle overall I guess in the radius if that makes any sense but this is not perfect by any means but this is going to serve as a perfect mock-up or template for me to follow when I get the new tubing in stock or in here which is what we're going to use so this inevitably is coming out I'm going to end up leaving these two pieces in here on the bridge I made for the two graphics cards because these are such short little pieces right there whether they're acrylic or PE TG won't matter whatsoever same with this piece right here between the CPU block and the motherboard block so that's going to be remaining in there this is going to change right here now some people asked me after part two with the Southbridge block is right in between the graphics card so how you going to make that work well obviously that has what we've got right here now I've got about maybe about two inches of clearance between the top of the card right here or I guess that would be the edge of the card and the tube which is going to allow me to be able to remove this card if I need to and if I need to remove that card I can just loosen up these two threading threads there loosen up the bottom card they'll come apart pull those tubes out and it'll come right out so it is going to be able to be removable the only downside to how tight it is in here is to get the Southbridge tube out right here you do have to remove the top card so that's why leak testing and allof head's going to be very very important because getting out this tube right here and getting the new one in is actually a lot harder than it looks so anyway there's that now here's how I've decided I'm going to go ahead and route it I'm going to have the reservoirs over here and as I mentioned earlier I have a very special plan or maybe I didn't mention it yet either way I have a special very special plan for the reservoirs and how I want to handle that if you recall in part 2 I wasn't sure what I wanted to do so I've come up with a really neat plan and that's one of the hold ups was we had to order some parts for that now when it comes to the floor right here instead of ordering the solid panel I wanted to give the buyer an option or flexibility in the future if he wants to do something with the middle here so naturally we have these three fan cutouts here in this big cut out there that are a little bit ugly but what I'm planning on doing with this is doing an acrylic floor that way it's going to be nice and smooth that I can drill my holes and things into that and just remove these plates when it comes time to you know put them through the floor that way I'm not actually drilling into the floor of these I'm drilling into the acrylic if that makes sense so it allows him to have more flexibility without having to drill holes in the floor if all goes according to plan anyway so what I'm going to do with the routing of this I'm going to have the reservoirs over here up and down they're not going to be horizontal sorry guys who thought that would be cool the problem is as the tubes would be coming off the side over here it's too much of a crazy Bend to get back so I went ahead and scrap that idea but the bottom loop here for the graphics cards is going to be reservoir down into the floor down into the pump and then up into here it's going to split both cards and it's going to come back out here and go back down to the bottom so the only thing you're going to really see on the graphics card loops is going to be these two tubes right here where it goes into the floor there and then where it goes back to the reservoir is going to be a 90 Bend right here and it's going to come back and into the reservoir I want more tubes visible up top just because if you're going through all of the planning and all of the trouble of acrylic bending you might as well have them visible so some of the tubes will go through the floor some of them will be coming back to the reservoir now when it comes to the motherboard and CPU loop it's going to be basically the same thing the to the reservoir which is closest to it is actually going to feed it it's going to go from the reservoir into this fitting here out into the CPU block out of the CPU block into the motherboard vrm block out of the vrm with a bend that comes straight out and straight up into the radiator and that's going to come out of the radiator either into the top of the res or it's going to go flexible tubing behind the motherboard tray whichever looks cleanest so once I get those parts in I can start planning for that and then we'll go from there the only other thing I really got done was I've got the Flex base removed and I got the ventilated Bay's in there but I can't put the fans or the radiators in yet because the buyer decided he wants to go with the I can remember the brand but he wants to go with some custom-made filters so till I get those filters I can't put that stuff together so unfortunately since part two happened I was like part blocks on doing most of anything I wanted to do so I allowed it allowed me to get some things done do some brainstorming and you know I wish I'd gotten more done in the last week unfortunately this is all we were able to get done but as you can see we are starting to get some progress made so guys this has been part three here of project red mist hope you guys check out part two in part one if you've stumbled across this video head in Chicago like I said I'm gonna hopefully try not to get in too much trouble I am going for work not for pleasure unfortunately but anyway guys I'll make it the heck on out of here follow on instagram if you want to see more pictures of this stuff in progress if you guys are already following you've seen this as it was happening because i was putting up some pictures while the bends and stuff we're going on it's same thing on twitter the pictures go up there so guys i'll check you later and check you later smell you later whatever huh it's just time to get the heck on out of here see you later guys until next time
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