Gadgetory

yeah scrapyard wars scrapyard Wars - thus gravity we are headed to Andrew share it again the plan this time is to get some fittings probably so we can adapter from that year Accord that I got to the copper tubing so we can adapter from the flexible tubing to the copper tubing and I might pick up one of those copper caps again just we don't waste a trip if I decide to water cooled it's good alright so as you sure I went well I'm basically out of budget for water cooling stuff but I still need that plate so let's go see if we can figure that out I just did some counting I have a lot of change because that's all I have left for water cooling budget I have six dollars and 20 cents left I have one more thing to buy and it's a copper plate I'm hoping I'll just give it to me because I bought half a pound and they only gave me 0.125 which is fine because that's all I needed but so if I get a different dude this time it's like no you have to buy the minimum quantity then it would be twice that price and then I super definitely can't afford it it's technically a to priority but I think I need to mod the case because if I don't do that it's going to be very difficult for me to know how much space I have for my copper coil because I'm sure that you don't mind at all ah it's riveted hat awesome a little bit bigger totally work yeah great no no okay you don't only change okay awesome I was that's actually why I brought this back in but I was it was would have been totally fair if you didn't on a night yeah I was going to say he also were supposed to charge me a full pound but I don't know awesome thank you very much I'm gonna get to work have a good day damn freakin battery's dying someone unplugged the drill battery charger thing the battery the spare battery wasn't fully charged I'm in pretty bad shape there's things that I can do but I want to get this done right now oh that's bloody impossible it is supposed to I might work for the tubing I'm supposed to be able to tighten it up and then pull it around and cut it but this thing's so big compared to it but I can't rotate it while it's inside so I have no idea how I'm supposed to do it and because it's on a curve already if I try to rotate it while it's inside it's like it doesn't sit properly and then like I can't rotate it past this angle so I don't know I could be doing something wrong but I probably have to cut it with a dremel in the end anyways then I bought that tool for nothing luckily tools don't come out of the main budget but I still feel really dumb buying that tool if it's not going to work at all it'll it'll work for the the copper tubing but that's just brutal you go that way please honey you're not going to be able to take your try through the brush off you go mommy will be at the front go go let's hope he doesn't text and drive anytime soon dremel tool my ass that that is a rotary cutter okay well this is clearly got absolutely no strength left after I did that so I don't even know how much point there is leaving it on there where's my axe it's over thank you okay no problem okay here we go man I love this thing okay I'm sorry did you say steel case construction I'm sorry did I say anything that sounded like idea shhhhh probably got enough room for our copper coils but I'm not sure if we can still put a computer in here you any other case modification we do will be relatively minor I might drill a hole here or there but now we've done the vast majority of the cutting that I foresee us needing to do I ended up leaving this in I think that should be okay so the plan then is reservoir here coil all up the front of the case then maybe if we can end here then coil here and coil all in front of the power supply and then end here and coil here something down GPU I really hope we can figure this out red/green would almost be proud yeah that's why almost yeah I wanted this did you break it oh yeah darn shoot that's terrible two places okay this is a big problem because now we need to find something pretty much exactly this size because the pump has to fit in whatever reservoir we're using so I had already validated those two components to work together I really didn't think it was going to be that fragile there was only one left one one one of these where I bought it oh no now let's find out just how broken it is possible the cracks don't go all the way through this one's pretty deep huh is it good it's too early to say but it's possible that we got away with one here I came from the top that's there's there's water here what we're looking at is right here and even as I put stress on it nothing comes out then this one which I thought was actually much less likely we might have gotten away with one here so while we were having lunch my neighbor arrived at home so we are heading over there with our raw materials and our components that we need to cool and hopefully we will have some kind of a plan within the next I don't know hour or so for how we can turn this into something that fits on that exciting times now internet this is John John this is the Internet the Internet is already you guys you guys are going to be blown away by this garage it makes our workshop look less awesome John makes a solar power digital scoreboards right basically awesome runs off the Sun radio control no wires slice of dice come on guys and my buddy so pretty much the kind of gear he has in here is mind boggling so he like makes all kinds of little gadget real Ike this these coils in here all pretty much by hand except the tools that he has that he builds himself by hand this is why we're here this is CNC machine oh wow here's what we need to design today these are our raw materials okay and this little doodad so first we've got our graphics card thrown together hold that baby off so this is pretty simple all these 911 okay you need to be covered by this and we kind of kind of score it or something to get them out of a heat sink II sort of effect to it and then we got a carve out a spot for that and I'm just gonna stick it on there no problem so that's pretty easy that's your loom okay this is where things start to get more difficult so these two pieces combined will be our CPU water block and they need to go right on top of the CPU here and then we need some kind of a we need a way to seal it around the outside problem more modern CPU block designs tend to use micro channels or micro fins directly over where the CPU die is going to sit but because we're not using the kind of sophisticated machinery much tighter than that so on order yeah on much on a much much tighter scale and very very short but we don't have the kind of machinery that would allow us to build something like that so you can cut it pretty accurately oh yeah I could do a little tiny between this point and this point here I could probably do 20 25 little channels okay that's not too bad we can work on that one thing we want to be careful of too is we don't want the design to be too restrictive to flow restrictive because what you're saying yeah you were limited in terms of our pump budget thanks to the constraints of this project I got you so what we'd want to do is we would probably want to bring the whole thing down a little bit so that it can flow freely over top if it wants but it can also sit all right I got you now as far as this goes we'll just tap some holes in the corners yeah chop and die thing and then we'll use silicon around the side here and put it on here now again more advanced CPU block designs would use a rubber gasket which is removable and replaceable but because we don't have the time or necessarily resources to source a custom rubber gasket for our block we're going to go with a more permanent solution which isn't to say that a silicon seal is permanent permanent you could rip it apart Andrea silicone it and seal it back up it's just not quite as elegant a solution as you know or to commercially manufactured hold it back up a little bit you oh you want to put in a rubber gasket now no I can do better than that this could cut out our gasket or using oil does that work sure for sure for sure are like for sure let's see if he wants to talk to us right now if you'd prefer to wait till later also I need to give him his pen back because I stole it believe about 15 minutes after you left we broke a bit got a spare one put a cheaper bit in this one isn't as much I'm just running slower sorry this ended up being a much bigger project than it was supposed to be but if we reduced the scope if we kill the graphics card then that should help a fair bit and I hope sorry about this I just want to curl up into a ball and cry oh oh oh have you been doing this oh oh you were around oh so Linus how did it go today so it's the end of day 2 we have abandoned our plan to build a GPU water block we still really don't know how to get enough copper coiled into the case to dissipate the heat from our CPU even so it's probably a good thing the GPU block isn't happening and we still haven't even put the holes in our reservoir and finished our cpu block we still don't actually have a way to put our fittings into the CPU block the good news is we can free up some budget by returning some things tomorrow I can return GPU fittings for example so we need a tap for that pipe thread which lord only knows where we're going to find and then yeah we're gonna have to get at it pretty bright and early tomorrow