Its the old heater tank for our water. Got central heating now so don't need it no more. I've already got an idea on what to do with it but i wanted to hear some ideas from the BT modders. btw long ago i was talking about my windows psx. Here it is =p hehe. still need to put a bloo Led in there and take it to gefore to get a mod chip put in it. it'll be worth it just to see their faces.
I was thinking of using it for a res yer....but i recon its soo big i could do without a heatercore..hot water from the comp goes in the higher socket...cold water from below pumped back into the box... plus if i can...chop off the dome at the top and put in a plexi window/door for topping it up. Then again its quite big and with tht much water in it at any one time it would get really heavy...dunno if the floor would support it. The alcove it used to be in had a concrete base attached to 2 walls. I hadn't though of the geo-thermal cooling but even then its not an option. i live upstairs and the ground around here is just a few feet of dirt and then brick.
damn it, that ps1 mod is pretty much exactly the same as one im workin on, does it use a mini-itx mobo? and also is that the original cd drive, if not where did u get it?
sorry on my first post i said windows psx. that was a typo. i ment to typed "windowed" its not a pc in there. heh. would be pretty fuxing sweet if it was. hmm...maybe if i trapped the boiler to the side of my fulltower i could use it as a giant heatsink no? =]
You could use it as res, and it wouldn't be that heavy either. Just fill it an inch or so more than the bottom hole, and have the water spraying in from the top hole. Oh! I just had an idea, in zapwizards post one of his ideas is having a non cunductive fluid spraying onto the cpu, then running down and collected in the bottom. Well you could do that inside the boiler! have the whole pc inside it, fill it up to the bottom hole with non cunductive fluid, pump it up to the top hole and have a piece of tubing spraying it onto the cpu, then it runs down/off the mobo to the bottom.
Yer that dust took alot of effort to collect =p. its not just a hole btw. plexi 'mon =] its a bit messy but pfft. paintjob makes up for it.
leet_llama you need to know if its an indirect cylinder or a direct cylinder , if its direct then the holes in the side are just that , there should be 3 of them , if its indirect the 2 holes that you show in your photo are conected together via a coil . If you put a hose in one of the holes you will find out If it a primatic cylinder just throw it away its too hard to explain what one of them is i am sure google will come up with something if you do a search
worlds largest paper wieght.. or if you know what your doing.. filll it with maybe 10 gallons of gas.. go out in into a secluded area (woods or something get a model rocket igniter.. and xplode it.. thats what i would do
heh. yer it has 3 holes in it. note the dome at the top and the cut pipe comming out of it. and its hollow, you can hear the sludge inside it...i'll have to clean that out after i chop the top off it...
Oh and no chance in hell of using it for a heatsink. Its got a curved bottom, so i'd have to turn R2s head into a shim for that to work
yah yah computer yah stick a computer in it... u could cut a window in it and have a mointor if u stand the thing on its side and out of those pipe openings put speakers thats be so tite
That big copper watertank was practically made for distilling... of course this means you will supply all the local LANs with booze. IIRC some people actually built clandestine stills out of regular plumbing gear like that.
hmmmm home distilling that way sucks cos u can get methanol which makes u go blind but freeze distilling anyway theyre both illegal in the uk u could melt it down and turn it into a Whomping bat
