Put it this way, same CAD design, same everything and Stealkey wanted 600 euro... plus customs, duty and VAT.
Got real lucky with this.
The XProto Project - AquaFusion, Vertical, Chrome, Industrial.
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Put it this way, same CAD design, same everything and Stealkey wanted 600 euro... plus customs, duty and VAT.
Got real lucky with this.
If i do anything like this again i'm definitely going to these guys for work and CAD design. Though the CAD design part im gonna try and learn myself, Fusion360 is a super useful tool to learn for CAD design.
I vaguely remember using something similar during my work experience at Amstrad plc back in my school days lol!
Distro Mount bracket, i've found a local company with a bunch of really nice guys who will cut this out for me out of aluminium. I did consider 3D printing but with the amount of weight hanging of the front, i don't think its strong enough.
Need 2 of these to hold it in place, one at the top and 1 at the bottom. Decided to go with slots instead of holes to give me wiggle room for any alignment issues.
Need 2 of these to hold it in place, one at the top and 1 at the bottom. Decided to go with slots instead of holes to give me wiggle room for any alignment issues.
They look great, very professional.
I'm looking forward to seeing how you mount them on the frame and how it looks once connected.
Morning,
Same im quite eager, hopefully should get them sometime next week. A few bits from OCUK to come as well so with all things considered i should be ready to build this coming weekend.
Monday morning which means time to get ordering.
Ordered the following today in preparation for the adaptation of the custom distro plates. Figured i'd grab myself a couple of offset fittings just in case but i don't think i'll need them. 3D printed mounting brackets should be here shortly as well, last minute decision to stick with 3D printed plastic rather than go for aluminium due to cost. If it doesn't work out then i'll go with the local shop to get them made in Aluminium. I'm in no rush to finish this but would like to get started this weekend at least
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Ordered the following today in preparation for the adaptation of the custom distro plates. Figured i'd grab myself a couple of offset fittings just in case but i don't think i'll need them. 3D printed mounting brackets should be here shortly as well, last minute decision to stick with 3D printed plastic rather than go for aluminium due to cost. If it doesn't work out then i'll go with the local shop to get them made in Aluminium. I'm in no rush to finish this but would like to get started this weekend at least
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Yeah its Alex, not known him long but use to watch his bit tech videos back in the day and had no idea it was him i was talking to on Discord lol.
His work is remarkable, im genuinely impressed by it and the turn around was quick too.
Yeah at the time i didn't know that until i spoke to the CAD design Arya from Aqua Customs who told me who Maki is
. I was like oooohh i use to watch the bit tech videos with him in it!How long have you sat on that idea for? It sounds really good, time to get cracking and put up a project thread i think
.It's been modelled in Fusion 360 for about 3 years, I've had some aluminium parts already cut, I have all the components except 13/10 EDPM tubing, I have a massive sheet of 0.5mm steel just rotting away in my ridiculously damp house.
I've just been far too ill and broke for many years to get anything done. Asteria II is in her 7th year nowbut if I can get the electricals of my over-engineered cardboard box spray booth done, I should be able to wrap her up by the end of the year. And then I can properly commit to Ortux and get a build log going.
Selling this damn Threadripper I have laying around doing nothing might help fund some things...
Flipping heck 7 years!? I would have lost the will after a year let alone 7 lol
, you mad man!How much tubing do you need? I might actually have some laying around in quite some length if you want it for free? Might get you motivated to finish this
.Finish? More like properly start
Not entirely sure how much tubing I'd need as I'm doing external radiator housing and I don't want it to be too far away from the main case (radiator housing may also have the main power jack) but that in turn depends on how tight a radius it will hold at rest.
But if you have any going spare I'd happily accept your gracious offer.
She gets about 2 hours attention every 10 months these days. Last build log entry is over 2 years ago now, although there has been some things done since.
Absolutely, let me have a dig through the garage this weekend and see if i can find any. I'm sure i have a roll of it somewhere buried from a few years ago inside one of my storage boxes.
Haha yeah thankfully wife hates pets! Lucky or unlucky me since i love animals but then like you said i wouldn't be able to do stuff like this.
First test fit of the brackets together with the distros and the fittings in.
Slight misjudgement on the width of the gap between the 2 distro’s, its too wide so im getting it reprinted again but this time with a 24mm gap instead. My original brackets didn't turn up, no idea what Royal mail did with them!
Slight misjudgement on the width of the gap between the 2 distro’s, its too wide so im getting it reprinted again but this time with a 24mm gap instead. My original brackets didn't turn up, no idea what Royal mail did with them!
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Thanks, not quite finished yet. Still waiting for this tubing to arrive so i can finally start the rebuild process. Will probably hit some snags along the way but ive been measuring and remeasuring for a few days so fingers crossed my measurements are on point lol.
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