Steampunk inspired build

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All of the incralac formulations are basically the same AFAIK and stabdardised formulation since it was developed in the 60s (paraloid b44 is the arylic in them, benzotriazole as the corrosion inhibitor, then just volatile organic solvents to evaporate off at different rates as it dries and a levelling agent (see eg https://www.google.com/url?q=https:...cQFnoECAIQAg&usg=AOvVaw2-aFwAcZIQFM09uHkwge-d ). 3-4 coats to give a dry film thickness of atound 20-25 micrometers is recommended
 
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All of the incralac formulations are basically the same AFAIK and stabdardised formulation since it was developed in the 60s (paraloid b44 is the arylic in them, benzotriazole as the corrosion inhibitor, then just volatile organic solvents to evaporate off at different rates as it dries and a levelling agent (see eg https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.icom-cc-publications-online.org/dlfile.aspx?file=docs/content/pdfs/2017/ICOM-CC_2017_Copenhagen_544.pdf&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwi8gZTxyIX5AhUQSMAKHe-9COcQFnoECAIQAg&usg=AOvVaw2-aFwAcZIQFM09uHkwge-d ). 3-4 coats to give a dry film thickness of atound 20-25 micrometers is recommended
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If that's the case then I think I may have found an equivalent for the same sort of price as you originally mentioned, will see if they have an MSDS for it and any other info on what it contains to be sure, if not then I'll just go with the rylards, thanks for the info it's very helpful and appreciated
 
Added some warm white led lighting into the mix
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garthfunkel1984 said:
Added some warm white led lighting into the mix
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Looks bloody good. Nice work. I’d be tempted to try some soft blue or maybe even green lighting rather than white, think it’d go well with the pipes. White just feels too ‘clean’ to me - if that makes sense.
But that’s obviously just my own worthless opinion :p
Cracking work all the same.
 
Thekwango said:
Looks bloody good. Nice work. I’d be tempted to try some soft blue or maybe even green lighting rather than white, think it’d go well with the pipes. White just feels too ‘clean’ to me - if that makes sense.
But that’s obviously just my own worthless opinion :p
Cracking work all the same.
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Thanks mate, It had green lighting with the build in it prior to the white, carried over from the previous build, it looked so odd, the previous build in there we called the Borg cube it was all green soft tube and worked pretty well but I wanted a change and with the green in there it still looked like a Borg cube lol
 
Looks great, i'd definitely add another pipe that goes through and puffs out some smoke every now and then (outside of the case) to give it more of a steampunk vibe. Love it
 
Miganto said:
Looks great, i'd definitely add another pipe that goes through and puffs out some smoke every now and then (outside of the case) to give it more of a steampunk vibe. Love it
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Thanks mate, honestly I think that's a great idea and you're not the first person to say that, not really sure how I'd implement that though, might put some thought into that
 
garthfunkel1984 said:
Thanks mate, honestly I think that's a great idea and you're not the first person to say that, not really sure how I'd implement that though, might put some thought into that
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Ecigarette with USB passthrough cable to the battery for power, with large capacity tank atomiser, heating just vegetable glycerine liquid for the smoke, with the ecigarette power switch connected to a relay to activate for a few seconds say every 15 minutes and then a small ducted fan for exhaust coming on a few seconds after the ecigarette to exhaust the 'steam' - might be able to control from RGB controller ports?

Sounds like a lot of faff though, and would need upkeep to keep the eciagarette supplied with the vegetable glycerine as it gets used etc.
 
Monkey Puzzle said:
Ecigarette with USB passthrough cable to the battery for power, with large capacity tank atomiser, heating just vegetable glycerine liquid for the smoke, with the ecigarette power switch connected to a relay to activate for a few seconds say every 15 minutes and then a small ducted fan for exhaust coming on a few seconds after the ecigarette to exhaust the 'steam' - might be able to control from RGB controller ports?

Sounds like a lot of faff though, and would need upkeep to keep the eciagarette supplied with the vegetable glycerine as it gets used etc.
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Thats not bad at all I would imagine that would work pretty well actually, although rather than the RGB port (I only have one and it's in use) I'd probably knock up a standalone timer circuit taking its power from the same usb used for the passthrough to power the ecig, in fact I've got an old raspberry pi sat in a drawer I imagine I could set that up to take care of the timing and switching the relay for the ecig.

Definitely would be faff and need upkeep but it would be pretty nifty and certainly fit in with the steampunk theme, gonna do some thinking and see if I can find a ducted fan small enough to fit inside a piece of copper pipe, I have some ideas brewing now lol
 
I think when you're doing steampunk, faff is part of it - i've never seen a steampunk cosplay that didn't have a lot of faff to make / keep it going but they look hella awesome and the faff is part of what makes them unique!
 
Been doing some thinking on it and I think what I'm gonna do is use an atomiser with a side fill if I can along with veg glycerine and a small air pump, pass the air up through the bottom of the atomiser so that it pushes the small clouds out through the exhaust pipe and control it with a raspberry pi so that I can run the pump for a little longer than the atomiser (to make sure the vapour is completely exhausted) and relays through a voltage correction circuit powered from a molex on the PC's PSU so that I have enough current.
Watch this space lol
 
Miganto said:
I think when you're doing steampunk, faff is part of it - i've never seen a steampunk cosplay that didn't have a lot of faff to make / keep it going but they look hella awesome and the faff is part of what makes them unique!
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Certainly a lot of faff gone into it so far lol a little more isn't gonna hurt especially considering I'm gonna be stripping it down soon and remaking one of the cooling system pipes anyway, not happy with the pipe that runs from the top rad into the CPU, it looks wonky in comparison to the others so need to lengthen the horizontal section slightly and shorten the vertical section slightly to straighten it up
 
Constant tweaking (not twerking as i wrote twice!) always comes with the territory, can't wait to see the 'final' (beta version 84 by now i assume? :P) product
 
Miganto said:
Constant tweaking (not twerking as i wrote twice!) always comes with the territory, can't wait to see the 'final' (beta version 84 by now i assume? :p) product
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Lol yeah something like that, I know they're never really finished, there is always something else to do or to add, I'm thinking maybe chuck a couple of good old fashioned toggle switches on the front panel too, to turn off the steam and LEDs if I so desire and possibly some little incandescent bulbs to indicate whether it's on or not
 
So mini update I have the pi reloaded with raspberry OS and I've written the code to run the steam exhaust, I have parts on the way today to make up the little exhaust system, so will be sorting out the wiring and testing the relays later today.
Still have to get the incralac and veg glycerine and decide where to run the exhaust, I know I want to make it look like it's running from the base of the water pump but not sure where on the case I'm gonna run the piping and exit the case yet.
More to come later with some pics possibly
 
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