Project: Rebuild (Name Change Pending)

[Deathjester]

I took another one....

 

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Search "900D Long Lightbox (Rev.2)"
They come from Portugal.

 

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It's all over the box on the first page

 

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How's the progress going?

I was waiting for my Step drillbit so I could start attacking the Lightbox, however that has now arrived, along with a bunch of terminals, connectors and some lovely Telios Black.

(I tend to do all the cables I want to be hidden in just black (it's easier).

 

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I've been thinking about this quite a bit reacently, and I'm debating if I should go to dual serial loops and add an additional 2 pumps.
Although Space could be challenging I might have to put in some Res / Pump combos or rethink some of the locations.

 

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So the latest updates:

Lightbox drilled and installed:

Under the lightbox - all tubed up.

With the lightbox on:

Pretty pleased so far; a long way still to go however!

 

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Spent last night sleeving the front IO panel (which I should have done last time).

This has caused me to realise that I'm missing a ton of connectors, terminals and wires that I need to complete the build.

These were therefore ordered today; hopefully they will arrive soon.

I will update with pictures of the sleeved front IO panel once it's completed, I also need to figure out where the Aquaeros, Farbwerk & NZXT usb devices will live.

 

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So here's the final results of the last 2 evenings:

The HDD placement on the motherboard side of the PC: (And where the newly sleeved cables will be run:

 

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Very tidy work on the cables dude, well done! That's the last big job on my build and I keep putting it off!

It's one of those things that I really don't mind.
I find that it really easy to do while watching TV.

 

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Sooooo here's the next few evenings...

Screwing the fans onto the radiators and building the fan looms! YAY!!

 

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So I forgot to upload the pictures of this:

Fan loom 1 completed; still need to do a 2 fan version and another 4 fan one.

The new fittings arrived for the long tubing runs:

My deburring tool arrived, as well, but I forgot to photgraph that, along side 2L of Mayhems Ice White Pastel and the passive cooler for my Aquaero 6 which was finally in stock!

Just waiting on a new rear case fan (Noctua A14 Industrial PWM 2000RPM) which should arrive today, and a few more terminals / connectors to finish off my fan looms.

I totally forgot about shortening the fan cables so I bought very few extra female terminals for these... such an idiot...

 

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Fan just arrived:

It's so nice... but work has nothing to connect it to so I can't test it until I get home...

 

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I'll post some pictures and stuff when I do the next lot!

 

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Here's the deburring tool:

(Along side some Parvum modding cubes; you'll have to wait and see what those will be used for )

Put the first bent tube in last night:

I'm not 100% happy with it, I think it's a little long on one side, so I might remove it and trim it down a little.

PSU Tester and the remaining bits to do the cabling are now here; so all that's left now is to do the remaining fan looms and I can get everything to start going back into the case.

 

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A little bit of a different update from me today:

FANS!

So here is one of my Scythe GT 1450 RPM fans, which I have already shortened all of the wires on (Take all of the wires and cut them to the same length...)
Also you can see the terminals which are going to be fitted in the top of the shot.

Strip the wires back to the same length:

Close, but not perfect...

Crimp a terminal on to the end of each wire:

All done:

then sleeve, and replace the connector:

And all finished with it's friend:

Yes, I know they are really dusty they'll be cleaned up before they go back in the case.

 

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So as requested.

Please note that one of the dual wires is NOT for this loom, it has a single one and 2 duals; the single wire is the RPM sensor wire, and will confuse the controller if you run multiple back to the header.

The bits I need to make these cables:

Then I strip the ends, and strip a section out of each of the long wires:

Then these are each joined and then soldered.

Each join is then heatshrunk to ensure that they are insulated.

I then line the joins up and trim all the wires to the same length; then strip them back.

The 5 wires are then crimped with male terminals and the other 3 are crimped with female terminals.

Then I sleeve the wires; all done...

And tested:

I hope this helps?

 

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Minor update today:
Just received my (second) PSU tester, since the first one didn't have a floppy connector tester and I need one on the board to provide additional power to the 8 DIMMs.

Nice!
Okaaaaayyy.... maybe the gap in the side isn't supposed to be there....

Modding time...





Sellotape mod completed:

All fixed, and ready to test my cables!

 

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Things have started to go back in to the case now:

The spots of copper on the top rad are annoying, I think it's where it was next to the LED lighting strip I had in there previously.

Although I still haven't straightened up the CPU out tube.

The random soft tube sticking out on the right is just holding the pumps in place, as it was pulling the top level of the light box away from the rest of it (due to the weight).
You may notice that I have painted a couple of small areas on the motherboard (if not that's a good thing too).

I've now started working on the acrylic sheet for the top drive bay.
The Parvum modding cubes have allowed me to attach it to the side plate, although it could probably do with being attached at the far side also.

 

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That is an excellent job on braiding the fan cables, also so far your tubing runs look very clean. Great work

Thanks

Just wondering, I bet all the Bitspower fittings cost a pretty penny

The worst part is how many I'm NOT using....

 

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Continued working on the tubing last night:

Fitted the reservoirs