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hey guys how's it going look at the Pulsar it today is Saturday and I have a lot of work to do and I'm gonna take you guys along for the ride now the main goal of this video is to build a stand for that system right behind me that is Riptide you guys may have seen some of the videos I put together on that it's all put together it's functional but it's not where it needs to be which is the computer room because I have nowhere to put it in there and in the meantime it is large and cumbersome and I've been moving it back and forth between out here in the dining room and the garage and I just need a permanent spot for it but I can't put it on the floor I have a very hard and fast rule against doing that so I'm gonna build a custom-made stand for it which actually put together some plans for yesterday there my plans such as they are I probably spent too much time on that but I should be able to build the whole thing out of one big piece of plywood and four two by fours for the most part but before I get to that I actually have to take care of another issue which is that we just got a new fridge it's a whirlpool and we're very excited about it it's a big upgrade over our old fridge but now I want to connect up the water line to it we had an old water line that we can't really use anymore so I just went to ace hardware and got some replacement pieces so so to start this video and hopefully to expedite the process of getting all this cold food back into the refrigerator so it doesn't go bad here is how to set up a water line with a new fridge if you and please bear in mind I have no idea what I'm doing fortunately these water lines are pretty simple here's the old water line it's just a tube it's got a little cap right here a little plug that keeps the fitting from going down over the end this one has been sitting for quite a while and it's pretty messy which is why we are getting a new one and then it would fit into something like this this is just a little coupler and this is actually from the existing line and we were able to save it thanks to Ace Hardware how the guy pulled this off of there and said hey save you like six bucks you know it to buy a new one of those pretty simple procedure for the new one though and if you've ever done PC water cooling actually very similar so there's a little fitting you'd fit right in there and then the actual fitting goes on over there I'm using the same word for all these because I don't know the actual proper terminology for it this little plug goes on right over that and then this will put pressure on that down once it fits into there then you just tighten it down like so and you gotta make sure that that's plugged in there all the way down here and erm I think I have one saving grace for this whole process and that is that the actual cold water line which is right here actually already has a fitting on it so it's got a little splitter right there for the cold water come off and then there's just a cap on top so this is already prepared if you don't have this there is another kit you can do that like should punch a hole in the copper pipe back here and I don't have to worry about that so I can just hopefully close this off undo this and then connect my water line up to that yeah it's taking the nozzle down water comes up if water does come out it will be frantically running out to shut up my mean I don't think that's gonna happen hey that's good and tube his feeding water and I don't see any leaks the spy and now turning the water back on you some pressure now look that's all the way open connection does not appear to be leaking it's good water water for the fridge that oh hello very energy efficient water these have been out here a little bit too long by themselves and this little tent thing and I had a few residents move in like this one right here I'm just going through here and trying to clear these guys out I'm sorry these ladies are me ma'am she looks rather pregnant yes that is black widow by the way pardon me sawhorse friend nope she's gone back into hiding I got her well guys I ran out of daylight yesterday so it is Sunday now but I didn't make a pretty decent amount of progress on this little project so I think I'm ready to hopefully finish it off in the next hour - I've got the frame set down here and this is gonna be the long part that the computer itself will sit on top of so that was intended to be nice and sturdy and since I'm using two by fours it is incredibly sturdy and then there's just one other piece of the frame that sits off there this will be l-shaped going that way and then over that way I did screw together the end pieces but not this middle piece yet because I'm planning to do a piece of plywood for the top piece and then also one down on the bottom and I need to make sure it fits in down there so I might assemble this one around it to hold them in I'm just using number eight screws I've got a two inch and a three inch have been mostly using the three inch but if there is like a knot down in a lower one I was using the two inch just so I can get in there and hold a little bit so all its left is to take my 3/4 inch piece of birch plywood there cut it to the proper shape and then attach it and I'm just going to be attaching it from the bottom to hopefully hide my screws because these two inch screws can come up just enough to secure that plywood hopefully without going all the way through alright guys it is now Monday and here just as far as I got over the weekend everything is pretty much cut to size and all the notches extend in the bottom piece for the pieces that support everything the center part here has still not been cut out there's a fair amount of twist in these two by fours I did use them because I've had him in the garage for a while so I didn't have to wait for them to acclimatize or anything that as I am screwing them in I'm sort of twisting them back to try to make everything as square as possible and then of course everything's gonna bolt to that from the bottom but before we move on I gotta sand as much as possible and I'm also gonna try to give a little bit of a rounded edge to the very top of it here guys are working my shift final part yes I just can't just an overkill for sawdust but if I knew Paul was gonna make me a work I would have brought different clothes but no I warned you ahead of time there you go a little bit more that's way better no chicken this any rounded corner here is hard to get at with the router so just suggested to wrap the sandpaper around a big - but this is my second choice what I can say is not stupid but if it works it's amazing how much nicer wood is when it's got a nice sand on it and now for any of you guys who actually do woodworking who are watching this and hopefully offering me critiques and helpful suggestions in the comments I've decided not to put a stain or finish on this that's mainly due to time restraints time considerations I want to get this put together and set up today but we are giving it a very nice sand we got all the individual pieces sanded up and of course we've got a nice little kind of curved edge all along the outside here so that's our top piece and now I think it's time to put this all together I sure you want some of this Joe has shed blood for this project that means that's a very good sign Joe now your views can be age restricted cut off blood I hope not it's just it can't be shown in China now all right we're moving on to the assembly process I need to drill pilot holes from underneath here in order to attach the top support beams in case you draw your thumb again yeah I'm gonna get it don't do that yeah guys see don't do that you're drilling the screw here yeah how your Henley this is a clamp oh oh another vein degrees of woodworking skill and Aspen chip level my goal with this build was to hide all the screws so like none of the screws should be visible from the top or the front for anything next projects maybe I can work on stuff like seams and joints and making those all perfect and ideal oh wow what it's a black widow open the corner there let's be pretty big if you can see it up there there's like four sacks oh fuck oh kanay don't worry about filming that Joe why it's cool oh my god oh this amount I have no idea you need to get some raid I was a spider killer and going on like Kenny's free right now each each one on the top of this I had to unscrew it and take the piece off because these are just ideal homes for black widows so each one of these had four or five egg sex in it as well as one big fat to them that black widows in two of them have brown bears so see someone pause workmanship here we need to fix it looks like a Nightmare Before Christmas building here it's like okay it's a little askew it's alright we don't fix it no big deal so far so good so here is the computer room and this is where the new stand is going to be as you can see my wife's computer hot box my existing main editing rig which I'm going to be swapping out Riptide for and then of course the current sort of makeshift stand at the bottom also of course some cable management needs to be done in here but for the time being we're just going to clear the stuff and put in the new piece of furniture that has been made here you can do a poem so you know he wants to help by kidding in the way she smells but cool beautiful yes nor you know he likes it a lot isn't it nice nori don't you like it she's like beat me Pet me play with me awesome hero likes being right there here boy good boy what do you want belly ribs yeah that good yes you do click boy okay so the Riptide massive computer has been moved over placed on the stand it is it is sturdy enough and it's supporting it again there is maybe some slight concerns about the center of this thing just because the system is so incredibly large and heavy but for the time being it's holding it up it's fitting in the corner as it should I have hot box my wife's computer over here I could actually rotate that 90 degrees and have it facing that way too but I'm gonna hold off and let her decide on what to do there my wife's desk is a mess of cables because she has a secondary work laptop that she has to wire in there so she has like a VM set up and everything she uses this 43 inch 4k monitor which is pretty nice to play over watching stuff but I will of course still need to get all that stuff set up properly but for now that we have a functional new piece of furniture that I've built of course with much help from Joe I was kind of a funny thing but as I was assembling this project I realized though yeah it was like two and a half three months ago in the middle of summer I started a project very similar to this and I have a bunch of footage from that that project was actually intended to build a small ramp for nori so that she can get up onto the couch and now specifically because she gotten surgery on one of her rear leg so she went through some recovery time and I spent a fair amount of time putting that ramp together built its to specific standards so that she could run up it and everything I even injured myself somewhat severely by drilling through my thumb which led to a lot of blood and consequently to me kind of giving up on that project not not giving up I still finished it made the ramp and then I tried to get nori to use it and she refused we got here to use it a couple times but that's still been completely a lost cause on that ramp so maybe I'll come back to that in the future and fix it so she'll actually use it but for now that is all the time I have for this video so guys thank you for sticking with me I know this has been kind of a not that great production quality video since I've been just shooting it kind of vlog style running good but I'm happy to say that Riptide is going to be actually integrated into my workflow now hooray for actually making use of they didn't say an over-the-top PC build that I did in there so I'll put a link to the entire build log for that if you want to check it out in this video's description and thank you guys so much for watching this video hit the thumbs up button if you enjoyed it I got more videos coming out later this week so stick around for those too subscribe if you're not already thanks again for watching guys and we'll see you next time