Gadgetory

hey what's up guys Jase $0.02 part 2 of project blank slate I think that's what some people came up with this name of project blank slate if you guys remember in the last video we kind of did the bleeding of the system and just kind of talked about we're going to be doing now today's video I'm not going to really do any acrylic bending today so if you guys are hoping to see that I'm sorry you'll just have to wait till next week to see those videos but I'm going to be trying to attempt getting rid of all the red in this system in a creative way that's not going to look horrible but it's also reversible so that it's not permanently black or blue or whatever we're going to do I'm also going to start by painting the fan rings black today I'm not going to do blue two reasons for that reason number one being the coolant color is going to be different than the fan ring color that comes with the corsair fans they're different shades of blue entirely reason number two being we don't have those rings anymore i built this system in March of last year and I get rid of all my extra rings when I'm not using them which I guess in hindsight might have been useful to keep them but hey I digress so let's go ahead and get in here and start figure out what we're going to do to get rid of some of this red okay so here it is right here and obviously we take all the red rings and get those painted to black but the red I start to deal with this right there on the motherboard the SATA plug spots and then the PCI Express slots and stuff so I've kind of got an idea of what I want to do and this is what it is I still have quite a bit of this carbon fiber vinyl revine 'el it's actually a simulated carbon fiber wrap from 3m so I'm thinking to incorporate that into there as much as I can to try and get rid of some of that red so I'm going to take the graphics cards back out and start brainstorming on that but first I'm going to paint the ring so those can dry while I'm doing all of that alright so here's some of the materials measuring tape scissors carbon fiber wrap and there's what it sort of looks like on there this is a focus so I mean it doesn't look perfect but then again it's not going to really be too visible you know the other graphics cards on top so I'm just going to do the other two now make the slit down the middle so the graphics cards can go in and out within without interfering got to do the same thing over there on the SATA and then I've got to do it up there on the block the BRM blob I think it'll look pretty good at that point but we enough read taken out to where it's not going to be distracting all right there we go it's about as red free as I'm going to be able to get it I still have to do the heat shrink on the pump there but I've got carbon fiber wrap on all the slots so as you can see that bottom slot is no longer red that's carbon fiber carbon fiber over the heat seat or the yeah the heatsink right there I just moved the RAM from the black channels to the red Channel so as you can see there's still a little red there but I'm just going to leave it the way it is and it's not perfect by any means I'm the one on the heatsink I'm not a huge fan of but it's better than painting it and I think it actually turned out pretty good full systems really starting to look sleek and I think once the blue is in there it's going to look really really good so yeah it's a starting to really come together alright since I was at it making all the colors match I can't do anything about the copper blocks I went with copper instead of nickel when I did this system because these blocks were during the era when ek was having its nickel plating issues of flaking so I don't want any chances of that and a customer build so I would nook nickel block so I can't or a copper block so I can't do anything about the copper I want to paint it I don't want to stick anything to it getting texted like crazy right now but I also took care of the power supply while I was at it some guy said the power supply sticks out like a sore thumb now and I still have to heat shrink that obviously but now the power supply as you can see is kind of blacked out with carbon fiber 3m dye knock and the red is really starting to get out of the system nicely so I think what I'm gonna do next is I'm going to go ahead and carbon-fiber the pump while I'm at it might as well I mean shoot I'm not going to be doing any bending tonight so to be easy enough a nice simple build blog but I think it's really starting to look nice I mean remember guys this this build was already put together this was nothing but a beautifying project and this customer pays well so he gets a lot of my attention so yeah this is a purely a beautifying project and I figure we'll just go ahead and well make it pretty okay so there's our carbon fiber on the pump carbon fiber on the PSU all the carbon fiber covering up the red now we're going to tackle that guy and I figured instead of just showing you guys like before and after I figure I'll just go and make this like a quick little tutorial built in with this build blog so it's kind of like a vlog Oriole of Liguria l-- get it alright so in order to get this changed over to the right color there's a couple of things you're going to need first things you're going to need are your sleeping tools now I have all those guys right here and this is actually the molex removal tool right here now what you need to also do is remember the position of the pins so you've got red which is your 12 volt on the outside and you have got your black which is your ground next to that but you need to remember the orientation so the way I'm going to remember this pretty much is just that if I have the flat side down it goes red than black so you just take this pin out tool it's quite literally nothing more than just a tube that fits right over the Mullis on the inside right there so you just take this you push it down in there and the molex will quite literally just pop on out there once you get it in there the right way don't you know I don't know how I can be able to see that but the pins in there are actually jacked up so the tool is not working right now so fortunately I have the materials to repin this now the pins are jacked up they're actually the tabs are bent back so when you stick with tube in there it doesn't actually decompress those or compress them so that I can pull the pins out so I'm just going to cut off this end and I'm just going to go ahead and make a new molex plug out of this I guess we'll go ahead and do a quick little tutorial on how to make that was intense anticipating that but I guess we'll do it now okay now before I actually do the new ends I need to go ahead and get this red taken care of now instead of trying to get this heat shrink off which is already nice and tight on there I'm just going to put new heat shrink over the top of that because everyone's sleep instead of using my loud heat gun I'm just going to I'm just going to use the lighter method which works just fine with with heat shrink by travelpod member all right so here we go it's all black now and as you may have noticed the lighter kept blowing out on me and that's because I have the fan on me it's way too hot to turn it off so I just dealt with it but there now we no longer have any red heat shrink tubing on there so let's go ahead and get this pinned out and fixed all right so first things first is you need to take a piece of your heat shrink tube and push it up out of the way because if you put the end on first you won't be able to actually get your heat shrink tube on you'll get your to bond so finagle that up and out of the way like so that one's really tight I went with a fatter tube down here because I was going over the top of the red tube so I had to use a fatter one but anyway that one's up and out of the way you're going to have to have a set of tools you need to have the end here for the molex I've actually got it off-camera so there it is right there and you've got to have two of the specific pins for the female side they're different pins for male and female so you got to break off a couple of those I need two of them and just kind of work that back and forth remember like I said you need to pay attention to the pin out so for me buttface this flat side down red is on the left and black is on the right now you've got to prepare your wire here so you need to strip off about a quarter of an inch per side twist that up that way it's all nice and tight trim it down to about the right size which is going to be a little less than a quarter inch don't have the exact science down on that now what you're going to do is you're going to get it ready with your crimper here you've got to have your crimpers there's just a specific tool for this if you don't have your crimpers you cannot do the job properly don't even try so you've got to line it up properly along on the teeth it's actually a fat side a small side now once you get it lined up in there if you just kind of get it till it clicks twice it'll hold it in there you see it actually holds it in there but then it gives you an opening in there so as you can see right there it's actually open just enough for us to actually put our wire in there and then we can crimp it down and just like that there is our ground perfectly on there hopefully it's in focus now we just rinse and repeat for the 12-volt side and then we're good to go so as I said get a lighter that's a butane left in it and crimp her down shrink her down as you can see my fan is blowing it out again all right and our our pump is now done I hope you guys have enjoyed today's lesson use it properly do it good yeah all right so here's the black rings right here just well painted black it's actually painted now people always ask me this I don't understand why I get asked so many times what would you use the paint it well paint I mean technically this is black primer but any paint will do guys it's plastic it's a rough finish everything will stick to it but I got to ask myself I don't understand why Corsair never included black white over black never made sense I mean it's such a staple color so many things would need black and why they never included it is just beyond me I mean there's a there's a black one right there as you can see and I think it looks great you know in a build like this if you were doing some kind of a stealth build what good is white red or blue gonna do you so anyway there's our black rings we'll get those installed get them in the bottom red and then I think we're going to be done for tonight I might just do the tube that goes across from the top of the reservoir to the radiator and then we'll call it we'll call it done for the day I just want to point out one other reason why I went with primer on the fans instead of paint as you can see because the fans are plastic the primers texture and color matched a little better than black paint would have in fact you can you can kind of see you have sort of a hard time figuring out where the actual ring starts and stops which is exactly what we wanted oh and also to some people here may be saying why are you using AF fans on a radiator stupid well we've already gone over this they're gonna make very little difference in this case especially with these radiators and the split fins very low restriction but yeah go ahead and go ahead and keep the AF versus SP battle going guys I'll eat my popcorn why you guys argue over it all right we're done for the night I ended up not doing the top tube up there I'm just going to save all that for another day when I do all of the other tubing so if you guys are looking forward to that sorry I also I'm going to make the same rings out of carbon fiber for those fans and the center portion of that fan just like I did for skunk works that way is just a little bit more stealthy and that's pretty much where we're going to leave it for today so as you can see our goal is to get rid of as much of the red as we could and I think compared to when we started we did a pretty damn good job one of the things I hate most about doing this obviously is the mess I mean I've got tools everywhere I've got trash everywhere got all this stuff under here to deal with all that crap to deal with I don't I'm kind of a messy builder so anyway guys thanks for hanging out today I hope you like part two of project blank slate or Overhaulin PC overhaul and water-cooler Overhaulin whatever going to call it and get the heck on out of here guys as always see you in the next