i thought this was kinda extreme so i posted it here i'm planning on a good next casemod in the shape of a jet engine and i wantd to fit watercooling in it as well as a huge fan in te front like a turbine of a jet engine. so i was thinking of putting a rad in the rear of my case but since it's cilynder-shaped are there any round radiators out there? coz i don't want a rectangle shaped rad anywayz this could be mounted in the back then so u can't look int the case from the back sine it's round and will cover the 'jet engine's exhaust thx in advance
Not gonna happen. Because of it's very nature, a round, flat tube/fin matrix would be a practical impossibility I should think. You could flank a 120.3 with 120.2 rads on either side and approximate a circular shape, but it would be large and inefficient. Back to the drawing board with you now...
i suspect you might be able to make a round rad, if rather than going in an up'n'down pattern, you went in a corkscrew pattern, but i wouldnt want to be the one who has to figure out how to make it. as an alternative, perhaps you could buy two square radiators, and put one in the middle that works (as your cooling rad), then take the other and basicly chop it up so you can fill the space around the square with rad. even though its not working, the bits around the outside would make it look round.
Not that hard in theory. You have a large set of thin fins radiating from the center point to form a cylinder. Then you drill holes in the fins so a copper tube can spiral through them. Solder, done. A labour intensive job that requires good measurement, but not impossible.
so if i'd wanted a round rad i'd have to make it myself? I recenty saw someone custom making a normal rad somewhere on this site. so i might give it a try. then on the other hand are there any square rads that are bigger then just 120 mm fans? if they're big enough it could work coz it has to be big enough coz the case itself is gonna be quite large as i'm planning to do the frontside with a strong electric motor and custom made turbine , like a rea l jet engine. a pic to give u the idea:
That might have been G-nome in WMD. http://www.bit-tech.net/modding/2006/05/22/wmd_part2_g-gnome_case_mod/6.html If you read the article you will see the rad was custom made for him professionally by HWLabs. Pretty sure it's a one off.
one off plus its not round lol so close you are on that one . Options so far would be Make it, mod it. If your not to skilled with making rads just make an acrylic/metal shroud . morgan.
you could make one like on "watercooling for everyone" A stack of copper, drill holes in it, solder tubes through it
thx mate this was the log i was looking for it will be of great help. But the project is on hold again since i don't have that much money. Anyway i will get it done but it could take me a couple of years since i'm always short on money
there was a ball shaped case that had a rad designed around the entire ball. deathstar like. can't remember who or where. but that was definitely a custom copper pipe thing.
You can get arc'd radiators for Motorcycles. Simply find some that fit into the curve of your tube - head to a motorbike scrappers. EG: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Cagiva-Mito-R...ameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting
The "round radiator" is really a simple idea. You have a series of metal rings one inside the other, and about .2-2cm air gap between them, then you run copper tubing (heat pipes) sideways throught the rings in the shape of this graph. (I'm not good enough with ASCII yet to draw but i'm good at math) so here is the EQ of the shape i'm describing. θ=Theta {r1=θ} {r2=-θ} Well heck here's an ASCII attempt: {oh crap...it's round?!$@?#@!$} yeah like i can ASCII a circle!!!! just graph the Polar EQ you shoud figgure it pretty easily. {yes, I'm a n00b to this forum, but not to PC modding.}
i tryed that some time ago, and i can say, dont take plastic, its impossible to keep water inside, it will always let water escape http://img54.imageshack.us/img54/6067/dsc001865qm.jpg *it look ugly and it wasent working at all so i send it to trash use a copper pipe and weld it, no glue i am a noob trying to built things that i am supose to buy, i am not a pro, but i can tell what my error were after doing them...
Get hundreds of trapaziodal copper fins about 18 gauge copper. Drill 3 holes in each one. Make 3 copper coils and solder the fins onto the coils then join the coils up. Should look like on of those huge round fan type heatsinks with copper tubing in it.
