Scratch Build – Complete L3pipe - Bit-tech Scratch Build Of The Year 2015

Thanks mate!
Not sure what you mean by attaching flat items to round tube though?

Thanks!

Thank you Justin

Thanks man

I have to admit, I never had any problems with cracked or broken acrylic pipe. If you treat it right it will treat you right
I got quite some sarcasm about me hammering acrylic "why would we use hammers on our pc's"
Well it was just a quick video to show how strong PETG is, not how fragile acrylic is
For me .. PETG is just a charm to work with, faster and easier in every way

 

Sorry for the late update but I was kinda busy


Got a very nice package from Parvum Systems.




Justin en Shaun wanted to help me out, win-win!










You can ask these guys anything, they can do it














Again, thanks a lot Parvum Systems!




Fixing a little mistake I made, went well with a 20mm countersink.




Finally playing around with fittings!






This update was a little late because of my own pc upgrade, and ...



Spent a week on Cooler Master Headquarters with Richard Kiersgieter, Richard Surroz, Ronnie Hara, Mathieu Heredia en Stuart Tonks.
All I can say .. it was AWESOME

 

Looking absolutely stunning so far!

 

Amazing work. Excited to see this project come along

 

Love the pictures of all those fittings. Impressive.

 

Sweetness

 

OOh, that's a lot of tubing.. I haven't read your log before now, was kindly show it.
Planning a Copper tubing one myself. Soldering everything together so not a lot of flexibility in my case.

 

Now, that's a pipe dream - ha! Subbed!

 

So .... drilled some holes

First getting all the measurements.






I planned to weld the top part to the bottom part for max stability.
However decided to do it with what I have at home and by hand




Lovely to work outside.






And the top part (mainboardtray)




And how I want to mount it.










Work space after an afternoon of drilling, sawing, sanding, filing and tapping




Also mounted the PSU frame.






And blocks done for frame mounting.




Now just need to mount them.










And mount the mainboard tray standoffs








Done!






Adjusting the reservoir holders




To be able to mount them to the radiators.




And mounted some parts

 

WOW.....This is something else.....
really awsome job so far.....
Looking forward to the Video

 

So you DO have a frame. Still looks awesome. I wouldn't expect anything less.

 

This is WOW. Subbed 4life

 

Thanks Jojo!

Thanks Cheap!
Well ... I have to say this is the weirdest project I did
The idea (6 months before the logs started) was to do a build completely held by the liquidcooling.
But the idea and hardware changed along the way and testing.
Acrylic fittings are strong enough to hold the weight, however rotary's, eventhough they are strong, they do turn around after a while. Like a pudding lol
So after a lot of figuring out I had to go for something like this.
At this moment the build is already 15 Kg+
But I have to say I personally really like this build cause of exploring possibilities.

Thanks Icelander

 

Back!
Was a bit busy cause of Computex - Cooler Master en Nanoxia


First gave the 'Corsair Force LX raid0 ssd' a new home with 3M duallock.



And then ... how to start here .. I really hate cable management. (maybe cause I'm an electrician?)




Testing the fans and LEDS at night.




And back to the cables, one by one.




Behind the 240 radiator are a lot of cables hidden from fans, pumps and the Corsair Links.




I was missing something on the radiators and push/pull was a bit too much in my opinion.




So went for these radguards from Highflow with white inlay.




15 minutes later.




Better.




Changed the GPU cables from 6+2 pins to 6 pins.




Oops ... got to hide this behind the PSU.




So removing more unnecessary connectors.




For this project I was looking for a clip in the same style as the project itself.
So sat down before it and just waited till something came up.
Why not in same style as the Dominator Platinum fins?
Had a good talk with my bud Scott Bruins and he came with this design .. awesome






We were both already in contact with Nanoxia / Coolforce and because they saw something in it too they decided to bring them out




This is the first prototype and the finals will be less wide (1cm on a 24-pin) and will have 2 x M3 mounting holes on the back.




And ordered a Bitspower X-station so I can easily play around with the 4 different pumps/loops.




Would like to know your thoughts about the clip

 

Very nice solution, prefer it to cable combs.

Looking good.

 

Those clips are well chunky but look really nice. They fit in nicely with the rest of the build

 

the clips do look good and like Geoff said really fit in well

 

Clips look great & the build

 

Build looks great man. My only concern about the clips is conductivity. Usually the cable combs are plastic. How will these new ones work, say they accidentally swing onto a board while it's live?

 

I had a similar idea (in brass) for Ada, but I too worry a bit about conductivity.

Another feature I considered was embedded little cobalt magnets so the cable organisers can clip to the side of a metal case wall.