Scratch Build – In Progress Project: Tri-Box supported by DangerDen and MNPCTECH

Looks great, tempted to do a wood case myself its just as you have discovered, the weather in the UK leads to warping wood.. But that adds character as you said

 

Right all my water cooling stuff has arrived!!!! well most off it anyway

Here are some pics sorry for the blurryness they are taken whit a horrible camera









That is the GPU block, rad, res, pump top, 7/16" tubing, helix coils, coolant and barbs

 

That's a lot of fans, push pull config? Nice W/C gear.

 

nice stuff but:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

John

 

Thanks a lot John

 

Happy Bday mate.

 

Thanks Boy 4rm oz

 

Hey all well a few more packages arrived

The DDC 3.2 from DangerDen with an XSPC acrylic top


I also got a Dremel for my birthday so I did some dremeling on my HDD cage all the gaps will be filled with acrylic and it will be light up with LEDs

 

Looking good I like the sound of the acrylic and LEDs in the HDD cage


Are you having an engraving in the side panel window/HDD acrylic by any chance?

Love it so far
Sharn

 

fixed... it worked on another forum but thanks anyway

 

Nice new pump. I want to get one of them.

 

How are you fixing the acyrilic to the alluminum? I have built a case this year, No curves on mine mind you, due to the fact .. its difficult lol..
But I used 6mm Ally and 5mm Acyrilic The ally I polished by hand to a high shine (not mirrored) and the acyrilic is smoked (sort of a dusky grey blueish hue)
It does look the dogs danglies, but I found when I attempted to bond the two materials together I didnt have any luck I had several samples and used varios epoxy resins and glues but non held due to the difference I think in the way the materials react to the heat from the inside / out side of the case.
I ended up having to drill and screw the acyrilic to the ally in the end. Mind you, with the wood being the inners you might have a good insulator huh .. Really interested to see how you get on with project.

 

It is nice and shiny I am waiting on my cpu and chipset block then I will get them all running!

With the two layers alu I am going to stick the acrylic to the bottom piece with what I still need to find out... but the second piece will just be slotted in and resting on top of the acrylic held in place with the 4m bolts which will take most of the strain (there is 12 of them so they should hold up). I am doing this so I can get to the 700ish LEDs that are going to be in the case... All three pieces will be bolted together at the back of the case and in to the wood.

 

Hey all,

Well I go a camera working!!!!

I used my new trusty dremel to round the corners of my circle



The rest of my watercooling stuff bar the thermal pads (am waiting to find out which I need)




thermal temp probe


Swiftech GTz


Radiator Grill will be roughly there (on the top)


Fill port


chipset block

I primed the HDD cage with upol Acid #8


etching primer

HDD cage

That is it for now

Kyle

 

Nice new gear mate. I am thinking of upgrading my un-used Swiftech GTX to the GTZ.

 

Hey

I would now like to thank www.dangerden.com for their help with this mod and supplying the pump for the water cooling system. I would of done this earlier but there was complications with the couriers.

THANKS DANGER DEN

 

Hey man this is looking great! My dad is a carpenter and he has a machine that does is like a big planer and allows you to make boards extremely square. Mabye you can pull it off and get it planed. Or go to any high school and ask if someone in the shop class can do it. Kids love using heavey machinery

 

Hey all

My school is not the best when it comes to machinery, we have scroll, and band saws drill presses and that is it!

I did about 30 mins of work today. I only managed to cut out the back panel as I have not yet worked out where I want the Radiator to be. So here is the pictures. There is some weak places but they will be strengthened with the aluminium. The fan will fit in the hole and held in place with one of Bills grills and the aluminium.




While I was away the place we were staying had some chairs which have aluminium on either side of ply board so this is just very rough idea of what the foot and other surrounding aluminium acrylic sandwich will look like



I would also like to thank www.MNPCTECH.com for sponsoring me with their all new Vandal Switch mounting plate (click images for store link)




and thanks to www.dangerden.com



Questions and Comments welcome

 

Hey all well I have this weeks update!

I got a few minutes to work on tribox so here is what I have done. I have changed the back panel design. I have also cut the radiator fan hole...


the cut

with fans

with fans and grill


the cuts

with everything

Question and Comments welcome

and thanks to www.dangerden.com



and MNPCTECH

 

Looking sweet mate. I was wondering where you had gotten to.