Modding How To Make Your Own Watercooling Reservoir

Gary Voigt, esteemed maker of the Art Deco Zenith 5-s-29 Radio Case Mod, takes us step-by-step through how he hand-crafted his very own watercooling reservoir.

http://www.bit-tech.net/modding/guides/2010/02/28/how-to-make-your-own-watercooling-reservoir/1

 

Brilliant! Been looking for something like this.

 

Alas some modding! Great work bit-tech!

 

Excellent...well done and very informative

 

Very nice, cool tubing trick too

 

Do you not have to be carefulabout using metals in a cooling loop? I've read about galvanic erosion or something like that?

It's to do with having two different metals. Don't know much more about it than that.

 

Yes, different metals will cause galvanic corrosion, in which ions move from one metal to the other. It doesn't happen quickly, but it will eventually destroy your waterblocks/fittings/radiator/pump.

Which is why you should always add a corrosion inhibitor to the coolant (along with an algae killer too).

 

That's why things are nickel plated. It prevents corrosion. A rule of thumb is to use either all copper blocks/rads/etc or all aluminium blocks.

 

Or a cheap(er) res - cut up a water bottle. Use the bottle cap as the filler, and use two holes at the side for input and output. I used to use a bottle for pneumatics, so I did find out that blutack is something exceedingly airtight.

 

Now THAT's a cool article!

Good work!

 

What about those of us who want the ultra large reservoirs that water beds provide?

 

Great article, very useful and informative!

That trick with the tubing is excellent too, I'm definitely going to make use of that in future.

 

Love the air pressure and tubing tricks.

 

This article has fantastic timing!! Me and a mate are planning a old Stacker Res-Orection, the clue is in the name that it will feature a large (custom made) Res. Was planning to order the parts tonight and this article has helped (especially with type of plastic) Thanks! Should be posting results in a couple of weeks (might start a thread up on here).

 

now thats cool
nice job

 

perfect timing! I am currently designing a reservoir for my project and i was wondering about using acrylic cement. I've used it plenty for bonding other projects but was a little worried about using it for a reservoir.

Also the tubing trick is awesome!

 

I'm absolutely interested in doing this, i have some very specific requirements for the res that's getting a key spot in my next mod. Great stuff man!

 

Excellent guide! I liked the part about forming the tubing. Very helpful!

 

Well done article, nicely written and good layout. Enjoyed reading it, course the information has tobe just stored on minds back page while waiting to get rich & famous to finally get into water cooling.

 

Thank you so much for posting a Modding Article!! Bit-tech.net used to have so many modding guides (some of the best), and then suddenly they trashed most of the guides.

Anyway, thanks for the info. I wish I knew more about Extruded Acrylic back then. I will come back to this page for info on tube molding.