Project : Purple Rain

domthecondom · 30 Sep 2009 at 13:26

MORE MORE MORE

dekez · 30 Sep 2009 at 13:41

Looking really good, very high quality. I like that mega big drill bit, not seen one of those before. How easy is it working the acrylic with the heat gun?

gary996 · 30 Sep 2009 at 14:59

excellent looking build mate

Jargy · 30 Sep 2009 at 15:44

Looks fantastic, and clearly some quality work going on. I'd love to see more detail on how you are doing certain things though, so us novices can emulate those skills you're using. (ok, copy)

I like the look of that drill bit as well. Does it have an official name so I can perhaps track one down? Can think of a few uses for that.

You casually say you "switched the LED's from blue to white". Did that require changing resistors, etc? I'm wanting to change my power LED and others to get an all-green colour scheme.

Tr Insanity · 30 Sep 2009 at 17:00

I believe the drill bit is an adjustable hole cutter , such as this one : http://www.sourcingmap.com/steel-ad...hole-cutter-40200mm-p-17751.html?currency=GBP

GJS1 · 30 Sep 2009 at 21:20

how much was the case?

booyaka · 1 Oct 2009 at 13:48

very nice work

nick_000000 · 1 Oct 2009 at 14:38

Love the braided cables wish OCUK would stock some braiding kit & heat shrink can't understand why they dont?

GJS1 · 1 Oct 2009 at 17:30

nick_000000 said:
Love the braided cables wish OCUK would stock some braiding kit & heat shrink can't understand why they dont?

same i would love them to stock some of that

PaulGreyhead · 1 Oct 2009 at 17:52

Me too

Shakeel · 2 Oct 2009 at 01:59

any updates

ste2005 · 2 Oct 2009 at 02:55

Looking good dude

Jargy · 2 Oct 2009 at 20:30

Tr Insanity said:
I believe the drill bit is an adjustable hole cutter , such as this one : http://www.sourcingmap.com/steel-ad...hole-cutter-40200mm-p-17751.html?currency=GBP

Thanks for the reply - but that link is to a tool that specifically can't be used for metal!

Tr Insanity · 2 Oct 2009 at 21:09

Jargy said:
Thanks for the reply - but that link is to a tool that specifically can't be used for metal!

Lol , didn't know that you were looking for one for use with metal

Should be plenty around which can though , I just linked to the 1st one I found

BriT · 2 Oct 2009 at 21:44

lol puts my case to shame!

Good work. im impressed.

waynio · 3 Oct 2009 at 12:41

Very very very nice

Brizzles · 13 Oct 2009 at 10:57

Bit more progress made, apologies for the image sizes and possible colour differences as i'm on my laptop now without Photoshop.

Rad flushing, a job i hate doing but it is worth getting the rubbish out.

Always flush a 2nd hand rad, unless you want to inherit the previous colour ;

Just as important, clean a NEW radiator too ;

Boiling water with clear vinegar, and keep flushing til you get a clear result.

Afterwards flush out with de-ionised water.

Brizzles · 13 Oct 2009 at 10:59

Time to start fitting the blocks and stuff.

Hardest part was removing the original heatsink from the mobo, had to use a heatgun to warm it up abit and plenty of elbow grease.

Brizzles · 13 Oct 2009 at 11:00

Mounted the pump on the back of the mobo tray and braided all the fan extension cables.

Dual res will feed the D5 pump and the main loop, the smaller rad at the front is for my OCZ Flex memory loop.

Brizzles · 13 Oct 2009 at 11:02

Sprayed the DVD drive as the end of it was visible from the inside ( the 3 holes on the back are from a previous mod and will be covered ) ;

Mounted inside ;

Onto another test fit, this time with the motherboard installed ;