Scratch Build – Complete Project SteelOak

Oh, sh*t! ... You have the welding skills... Have you thought about welding up your own stainless steel reservoir?

 

I'm sorry about the photo's of the second and third post, wanted to update them with a smaller res, but I can't edit my posts. I will get this error:

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Does anyone know about this? Already contacted bit-tech, but still no response.

Let’s start with the exterior part of the case now. It will be removeable for easy access to everything inside the case. Because the Oak will be “around” the steel, I have to make “floating” steel sheets. And I can also use these features for securing the wood.

Maybe something for in the future! I like to weld and finish stainless steel a lot. Did all the furniture for my previous house with stainless steel framework and small interior details.
But for this project I want to use acrylic.

 

Really like the design with distro plates on 2 walls. Lots of your images aren't loading- just showing

 

Thanks, enjoy the log!
Yes i'm aware, but I can't edit my posts. I deleted them so I could replace them with smaller resolution images.
Still waiting for admin response why I can't edit my posts..

 

Does Bit-tech still have admin after it switched to forum only? I assumed it's a ghost-ship now!

 

You are probably having issues since you only have 13 posts. You need a moderator to click the "this guy isn't a Russian spambot" option on your account.
...And I have no clue who's running the ship anymore.

 

Is there a problem with Russian spam bots? Or do they only block Russian spam bots? Where did the word Russian come from in your message? Is this a new trend or some form of discrimination?

 

Spamming 'Slavi Ukrani' 20 times would be acceptable I'd imagine given the current climate.

 

Haha, I would say there is an admin, because my posts get approved (they are invisible until an admin approves them).

 

@censored_Prometheus_ - Nothing personal, man. You may not remember the spam that forced Bit-tech to add the limits for new members. We were getting big globs of Russian text with links to viagra (virus) sites.
When I was admin at TheModZoo, I had access to the IP's of the spammers we got there, and they were always coming out of Russia. -Probably all the same bot.

 

Still busy with the exterior part of the case. Drilled all the airflow holes on both sides of the case. So in the exterior part, and the dismountable panel on the back (for access to the I/O panel).
After the exterior part was finished, I welded the dismountable panel on the back so I can use it as a drilling mould.
I did it the conventional way because I don’t want more heat in the sheet than necessary. I had a few drill errors which I fixed by welding the hole and drilling a new hole.

The “bent” sheet I made out of a tube again.

 

I think you should put that drill bit in a place of honor for a while, like, frame it in one of those "employee of the month" pictures.
Looks fantastic, by the way.

 

With this update I weld the drilled plate to the cut-out tube part with the straight corner. The flat steel welded on the inside is to secure the wood.

This part assembled I can testfit it with the interior part of the case. The small top sheet needed a little fix because it didn’t line out well with the top edge of the back panel. But very happy with the result so far and no big errors.

Haha it even needed a fix during the process (the drill head had a little spin), so no employee of the month for this fella.

 

Awesome. That would already be rusted out like your hammer here.

 

Now the main steel frame parts are almost complete.

I want to make the oak and acrylic parts before I continue with the other steel parts, to be sure that everything fits as it’s supposed to be.

All the milling is done the conventional way. But I had milling jigs made with the laser. This worked very well. (the 3 small jigs on the right are for the acrylic pump brackets to do a few tests)

Oh no I hope not

 

Looking good

 

The acrylic parts are also made the conventional way, with the same milling jig method as I made the oark parts. First the 2 15mm sheets so I can use these to route the channels, pump bracket position, SLI riser position etc.

3rd and 4th picture shows a quick test fit.

Removed the stock cooler of the RTX 3080, because I need to know the position of the inlet and outlet ports of the waterblock for routing the distro plate. (last 2 pictures)

Thanks !

 

To make the GPU ports fit the I/O steel panel, I had to position the GPU on the acrylic so I have the perfect height dimensioning.

I cut out a piece of the 3mm steel sheet, and welded a 0.75mm steel sheet in the gap. Else the connectors can’t be pushed in the ports (because of the 3mm steel..)

Also decided to make a housing for the GPU DP/HDMI port section, also made this from 0.75mm sheet and bended it.

 

By the way, "looking good" is code for, "I have no idea what I'm looking at, but I really like it."

 

This post is the last one for the steel work.
The radiator bracket is positioned and the mounting sheet is welded to the backplate of the case with M4 thread (blind holes)

Welded a L-beam on the side of the backpanel for supporting the exterior part and demountable back panel.
Now it’s also time to weld the bottom sheet to the main case.
Mounted the two demountable back panels and drilled the M4 thread holes

Fitted the main case with the exterior part and a quick testfit with the oak top frame.

Now the bottom sheet is welded it’s time for the last steel work, the case standoff’s with the fitted power button.

Haha, I can believe it's not always easy to see what it is.