[kaiqi07]

Originally Posted by K-Dash

place 2 pump in series to run the whole loop. no diff if u ask me.

THanks K Dash, then I think I will go for whichever loop order looks neater.

[fantasy87]

Originally Posted by kaiqi07

Project Update for 02/05/2012:

Completed sleeving and cable tie all the 8/24 pin ATX cables and 4 X PCIe 8 Pin Cables.

how do you do that cable tie thing?

[kaiqi07]

Originally Posted by fantasy87

how do you do that cable tie thing?

Tie individually in 4 cables per cable tie. Must be tight, have fun doing it coz it took me hours to do all of them LOL

[fantasy87]

Originally Posted by kaiqi07

Tie individually in 4 cables per cable tie. Must be tight, have fun doing it coz it took me hours to do all of them LOL

omg i might not do it though... the bitfenix extension sleeve i had feels like cloth? the threads get pulled off easily if i wrap the cable tie over it

[kaiqi07]

OoooOO... I using extension cables also. I resleeved to red/black alt then use cable ties to tie it swee swee hahah..... There is another way to do it though, sewn it with nylon strings whcih I too lazy to do it, my wife also lazy hahaha

[kaiqi07]

Last night, I had tried out to insert the 240mm radiator into the PSU chamber to find out the Right side HDD Cage (I removed only Left Side of the cage only prevously.) is blocking the rad placement. So I used a screw driver and cutter to cut away the excess steel that was holding onto the HDD cage and managed to remove the whole lower HDD cage.




After the cage is removed, I installed another 120mm GT to the front intake. As I did not drill any screw holes to hold the fan, I used cable ties to secure it which work out pretty well.

Today, I came home pretty late. But I wanted to get something done. So I took out the newly bought acrylic sheet and planned to cut a hole.

I measured and mark out a 140mm fan hole + its screw holes. I took out my RTX and started cutting.

After I cut the hole, I used a drill bit on my RTX to drill 4 screw holes. After drilling the holes, I found out that the holes were too tiny for my screws.

So I used a Engraving attachment on my RTX to enlarge the screw holes.



This acrylic panel with 140mm fan hole will be installed to the HDD cage using the 4 screw holes to hole the whole panel in place.

I will cut 3 pc of acrylic to act as a support beneath acrylic sheet near the 5.25 cage as shown below.



Do note that the illustration above is without the 140mm fan hole. It was when I was going to get the acrylic material then I decide to include a 140mm fan hole. So I had lengthen the sheet from 260mm > 400mm.

[kaiqi07]

Was on leave today. So took out all of my acrylic and cut and drill them.

Purchased a brand new 440mm x 400mm x 2mm clear acrylic to replace my old window. So used the existing window' screw hole as a guide to drill 12 holes on the new acrylic window.

The 5.25 inch side Bay Cover which I had cut a 140mm fan hole earlier, I found out that the sides were too thick and which caused it unable to mount. So I took out my dremel today and started cutting it 10mm away.

I also bought some socket head screws for my rad from kelantan lane earlier this week. Which I found out their diameter are too thick. So I went down today to xchange e screws to M3 ones. I also bought some washers just in case I need to use it as a filler.

I had also to plan to custom made a Sata hot sway panel. I had bought the acrylic but last night when I sat down and measure again then I found out.... If I were to make the cover, I won't have enough space to place my pump01 and the reservoir haha...


But since I had bought the acrylic. I will use them to create a 5.25 inch bay back cover which will be able to hide all of the cables and interior of the 5.25 bays.


I will upload pics when I get home later.

[kaiqi07]

Side Panel with clear acrylic. Decided to change the acrylic as it has lots of scratches.



Drilled holes to the new piece of acrylic and try to fit to the Side Panel. Swee Swee!



Completed replacing the Side Panel's Acrylic! $8 total spent!

[kaiqi07]

Cut and Drilled the acrylic sheets for the panels mod.



Test fit of the panels. Very Happy with the panels.



Peeled one side of the PSU Chamber Panel's protective sticker away to see if the acrylic will blend to the design



Bought socket head screws for the panel and my rad screws.

[kaiqi07]

Last night, I took out my EK XTX 360 and found out the the paint near the intake holes were peeling. It is a newly bought rad and what I did is flushing of the rad two weeks ago.

I strongly suspect its either the hot distill water or the water residue that had leaked out had caused the peeling. As when I removed the rad from the bubble wrap, there are traces of water which I think the rad was not totally dried when I kept them. (left them out to dry for 2 days seems that its not enough)

I used sandpaper and smoothen the peeled paint and respray a new coat of paint. Hope that the peeling wont happen again.....

[kaiqi07]

Went down to UVnium to get some stuffs before UVnium relocate.

Gotten the following items:

6 X 120mm rubber pads for fans


20 metres of White double weaved sleeves (4mm)
4 metres of White heat shrink
5 metres of Black sleeves (2mm)



1 X Asus Crossfire cable ROG (Rare gem, wanna install a pair in my rig)

[K-Dash]

gogogo~ almost finishing.

[kaiqi07]

I had resprayed a few new coats of Flat Black on my new XTX 360 rad. Pretty disappointed on how easy the paint peels off.....

Wanted to spray Red, but my wife commented that if I were to spray red, the rig's part will be not standing out which is kinda true.

Always good to have a partner giving u ideas.

@K-Dash: soon, finishing very soon but I am planning to create a simple platform for my dual pumps. which can emits lights beneath. Still thinking how to go about creating it.

[K-Dash]

^
a 6mm thick matt or clear acrylic sandwiched by de-coupler with 3mm holes for led hao le.

[kaiqi07]

okok. Later tonight I go back measure my pump mod kit base and see how I can play with it. Thanks for the input bro!