TribalOVERKILL's LiquiD EVOLUTION

if i would be water this would be my porn......


anyway...

simply great work tribal... your a genius, that stuff you make is simply amazing

 

HOLY ****! .... No word to say.!

 

Reservoirs with SpinFX are actually flow indicating reservoirs. If the reservoir FX isnt spinning,.... there's a problem It not a very precise flow indicator but it does make sense. I actually have plans to make small flow indicating chambers or cylinders that are more precise with metering flow. I am actually kind of ansty to get started on it but then again I am antsy to get started with everything I have lodged up in my head

 

Did I take that picture? Thats a good pic, LOL. That s@#$ does look cool ha ha. I think I'll buy back one of my xPO's, ha ha ha.

EDIT: that is my pic. Thats the original. That was taken ages ago when I was working inside my mothers half garage thing she's got going on.

 

yep... its an old one from you... it was one of the pics that shows your skills the best though in my opinion...

 

ill have to look at that when ur done
as im planning to have a res in the side of my comp and have somekind of spiraling acyrlic inside to indicate the flow

 

?!?! Dude,... it's already been done. The xPO is a spinning coil. xPRZ is are spinning rings. The NKCM res is a spinning helix of some kind. You know they spin right?

 

i didn't know that spinned? guess i didn't erad it close enough. Not only are you amazing at manufacturing these things, but the planning is the part we don't see as much and in my opinion, its 10x harder and you have basically mastered both

 

Your joking right? You didnt know they spin?

 

i knew most of them sp un, wow im retarted. hahah i didn' tknow this exact one spun, don't ask me why(slaps myself) i thou gh tthey were there for looks? wow i really don't know tribaloverkill, jeeze that would be unprofesh! sorry sorry sorry...

 

yh i knew they spun
ill draw my idea and send u the pic of what i ment

 

you remind me of ghandi

 

i first spoted this great res on (aqua-pcs.co.uk) unreal looks like sumthing out of a hollywood blockbuster!!! is there gonna be anymore for sale that is the question???????

 

Probaly will come some new ones in near future. When is just the question not if

 

New reservoirs designs are coming but as for my making more limited editions, not right now. I am waiting for more tools and machines, proper tools and machines to make a better product and to make them faster.

 

such as?

 

Does this mean we will be expecting more amazing updates, of more things, more often?

 

I really hope you will start again soon, I'm a big fan of your reservoir work

 

What up everyone!!! Damn I have been stupid busy lately. Working, F'ing around with my POS car, rtying to keep it from breaking down on me,... yea. Well,... here's a little something for you. A couple of fellow modders placed an order for a custom reservoir. Qhs who ordered something kind of like the NKCM reservoir, a blue triangular helix kind of thingy. The shields for Qhs's reservoir,... kind of futuristic looking. It's going to look hot! Then, DarthBeavis who placed two orders. Both which will be used in his new build, "Day Walker", from the movie Blade. Reservoir #1 will have a cool helix inside as well but the overall look is going to be a bit different, a bit bloody red looking The shields for it will one of Blades glaives I'm going to design my own glaive though. Reservoir #2 which is actually two reservoirs, two sPL's. A QUAD res. These sPL like reservoirs are smaller in diameter and have a tinted pane of acrylic down the center They will be mounted as one unit with a set of shields that have hinges/ slider thingies in some way or another so that he can open the shields to reveal his quad res. Its going to be be COOL!

Sep-29-2007 (rDB324q, rDB756g, qHS987b)

Custom Orders:

DarthBeavis-
[rDB324q]
Summary: One Unit, 2 reservoirs, 4 loops, hinged shields to open and reveal.
Height: ~4-1/2"
Width: ~5-1/4"
Ports: 4 G1/4's on bottom for each, 8 total
LEDs: On top, unknown amount

[rDB756g]
Summary: SpinFX tinted even width helix with pointy ends, using a glaive as shields
Height: ~7"
Width: ~4"
Ports: 3 G1/4's on bottom
LEDS: On top, unknown amount

Qhs-
[qHS987b]
Summary: SpinFX UV blue triangular like helix, futuristic machine like shields
Height: 9"
Width: 4"
Ports: 4 G1/4's on bottom, two inlet's and two outlet's
LEDS: On top, unknown amount

Ok,... here are the bodies. Qhs wants his max dimensions to be 9"h x 4"w. DB,... doesnt know what the hell he wants, LOL. So the glaive res will be about the same height as the xPRZ's and the tank is going to be about 4.5" tall. About. Width,... I'mn going to keep it as tight as possible without losing the look I want.


Here are the rDB324q bodies. They are,... I think I cut them so that they are 4" tall or maybe 4-1/8" tall. The diameter is 2".


Much smaller. I tried to go smaller but the diameter wouldnt allow for 4 fittings along the bottom.


A piece of scrap tinted acrylic I have been trying to use for the longest time. Going to use it for the middle panes for these rDB324q's.


Hot. The tinted pane should help seperate the colors a bit better so they dont mix as much. I have plans for another reservoir like this, not goign to share any info on it right now. I actually have tons more ideas for reservoirs like this but im not going to share any of that right now.


While those rDB324q's are curing,... time for Qhs's reservoir. These are left over from the NKCM reservoir. Im going to use these for his. But before I get started I have to try something.


Some more acrylic donuts. Exactly .5"


Some strips I cut with the router.two 1/4" strips to hold the FX to the shafts and a 3/8" which im not goign to use because I f'ed it up trying to make a certain cut that is proving to be a pain in the arse!!! I made a new strip thats a 1/2" wide to replace it.


Here's the 3/8" strip. angle cuts on both sides to cut the jet of water from the inlet. I dont know if it makes a difference but I thought I would try it. Almost cut my finger tips off doing it.


Here's the cut I was trying to make. I didnt want to do it this way because it's jut a pain in the arse. Basically I need to cut out litte 1/8"+ grooves in the little paddle things Im making. The grooves are at a 20 degree angle too. I wanted a way of cutting the groove in one shot. But all my attempts have failed. Riggin up what I have to do it firstly is insane. Notice I dont have an pics of my previous setups. You would flip if you saw what I was doing. Anyways,... this is it.


Basically you cut one side and then flip it over and then cut the other side. When down you can snap off the little tab making a little groove.


Here are all my paddles. Its amazing, using the same setup with the scroll saw to cut all these tabs, some would fit the acrylic donuts and some wouldnt. Fitting and not fitting is a night and day thing,... that much different. I didnt get it. So I chose all the ones that did fit.


TA DAH! Glue it all together. I used a aluminum rod down the center to make sure I dont push the paddles in to far that I wont be able to slide it over the 1/4" acrylic shaft.


So cool. Basically,... I am trying to get rid of the bubble chamber found ontop of the other reservoirs. Using this little propellar will allow me to move the inlet closer to the center of the reservoir. The jet of water fromt he inlet will push this along which will spin the FX and not the water. The farther the inlet is from the center or the closer to the inside wall it is the more the water will spin. Because the jet of water is flowing around the inside wall. Having the inlet closer to the center will jet the water against the wall almost perpendicularly. Also,... the 15 degree bottom to jet the water almost completely upward which helps to keep from spinning the water. The water spinning funnels any air inside the reservoir down to the outlet. This is what I dont want.


Back to DB's quad res,... shaved off the excess tint.


Time to wrap some acrylic.


Marking my path in which to wrap.


Shape drawn out,...


Cut/ Sanded and ready to go,...


Glued them together to save time,...


Niiiiiiiice,......


Here's one cooling off. It's takes several attempts to get it just right. first,... I make these belts using tape and paper mask. I use them to wrap around the hot acrylic to hold it on place. Once I wrap from one end tothe toher I have to go back and do it again to fine tune the wrapping process. Most likely the acrylic is not perfectly spiraled or there might be some bend spots or areas that weren't smoothly wrapped. I have to reheat those areas and do it again until its right.


Very coool.


There's one.


Both,...


Thats it for now. Going to go back tomorrow to start on DB's bloody helix,...

 

sooo cool man!

Where do you get the metal pipe for bending? and what diamters do you have?

lol love the two big arse vices... are they screwed down?

if you don't mind me asking...
Whats the little bubble chamber for? perhaps i should just pm you tomoro as i ahve so many questions for you!

great great great greag great great work trib trib mic dibe dibe!