Project: PrometheusCU

[nanhaizi]

updates ? thats one devil pc !

 

[hallucinogen25]

no updates?

 

[Langer]

In the spirit of progress, I decided to change my fittings and tubing style and configuration to accommodate the new reservoirs.

I made a "small" AquaTuning.de order just now:

and as I mentioned I also have 2 of these puppies en-route as well...

With special thanks to Shoggy from Aquacomputer for giving me the heads up on their re-release (I pleaded with him several months back for a pair of these reservoirs... so I'm elated to see them available again).



More stuff to fit into this already jam packed case. I may only be able to fit one of these reservoirs into Prometheus... but not a big deal I'll be happy to have a spare "copperTube" in my collection of parts.

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Some of you may be wondering why I don't just use my router for all the cutting?
Answer - the router is old and out of alignment and one of the motors is burned out... that is until last week. An engineer friend of mine had experience with such things so I put him to work.
I'll be cutting my own parts again - but this time with a capable machine.
Before it was unlevel - didn't travel smoothly - a motor was burned out - and it was a decade out of service... this time it's all calibrated and ready to go and I actually have time allocated to finishing.
I have everything for this project complete and waiting... once I get the actual structural elements done it wont be more than a week to + build + plug in + test + tweak + cry.

Today I spent the afternoon in the shop preparing my drawings and the machine for cutting. I'll be going back to the shop Monday/Tuesday to complete cutting of the FINAL carbon parts.

TUESDAY there will be much progress. Stay tuned until then.

 

[Langer]

In the spirit of the 'RealRedRaider forums' overkill style that I've come to love and appreciate I've decided to step up my fans, and with them my fan controller...

I emailed Sidewinders for a quote on the below just a few moments ago:
[edit]: I revised my order - swapped the AFB1212SHE fans for AFB1212GHE models instead (the difference between the two is 151.85 vs 240.96cfm)[/edit]

The thermal material and cleaner is for another unrelated project.

 

[Langer]

I made a 'few' revisions to the part designs over the past week.
I've settled on the -absolute- FINAL design for this project.

I'll give you a taste below in the form of my Concept drawings, but you'll have to visualize the bends yourself... As for where these parts are going to be installed - you'll just have to wait and see if you can't already.

Black Lines = Cuts.
Dotted Lines = Bends.
Grey Lines = Rastering.

48" x 48" = 2mm copper plate
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36"x 36" = 1mm 'Rigid' Aerospace Milspec Carbon
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36"x 48" = 1.58mm 'Ultra Rigid' Aerospace Milspec Carbon
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Illustration showing how Carbon and Copper come together - minus the raster etchings.
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Comments are welcome as always. Pictures follow Wednesday.

 

[Langer]

I'm sorry for the crappy quality but I left my camera at home when I left to play in the shop for 3days.
I'll upload the part pics tomorrow when the sun's out and I can get decent pics - CF doesn't photograph easily... sunshine helps a lot.

For now, I give you crappy cell phone pics and videos of the cutting in action. Believe it or not all these years and this is the first time I've actually taken advantage of a cell camera - you'll notice this inexperience in my sideways videos... lol.

First, here are some pics I took of the router a while back:

Photos:

Vimeo:
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More updates and MUCH BETTER PHOTOS coming soon.

 

[Langer]

Here are some preliminary shots of the CF cutouts. I need to recut one of the panels below due to flaws but that's no big deal.
There are still a few pcs left waiting on the router - I forgot them at the shop.

I'll debur the edges over the next couple evenings to ensure a smooth finish.



Without further ado - some teaser shots to whet your pallets:

More pics later.

 

[Langer]

Here's some more pics:


Test fit w/ fans and LEDs:

This will be the Aquatube mount... I love my router - these babies fit so snugly together its unreal:

Example of the SSD mount - they're being held with some double sided tape for the time being:

Keep in mind the drive bay will be encased with copper - here's a rough preview of the final result:
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Heres the new pump mount... this is just an alignment test, there will be spacers and foam later:

 

[Langer]

Below is a little taste of things to come this evening...
I spent all day yesterday and most of today cutting these babies - at the sacrifice of many a 1/8" end mills.

This is just a teaser - I'll post some more later.

Here are the three different kinds of fins that will line the side of the case, from left to right: end fins x4, middle finsx40, support finsx8

Here is all 58 fins (a few extra just in case).

Remember that keyboard I was modding a while back... I finally got its finishing piece. This is the bottom of the keyboard.

 

[Langer]

You know you're getting too complicated with your design when your 'test fit' takes you an hour to setup...

More teasing below:

This was just a 'quick' mock-up using coat hangers to hold the pins in alignment. The final setup will have additional support below the 'pretty bottom plate' that the fins are slotted into. There will be a piece cut from 8.5mm thick carbon plate in the exact same cutout pattern as the 'pretty bottom plate' that will offer more support for the fins and also more bottom stability.

Enough chit chat... here are the pics:

There are 3 different types of fins that will be positioned in specific places in final construction.

You can see the random order - this was done just to make sure all the fins fir properly... oddly enough a few needed some filing.

Normally I wouldn't share this stage but I've been hounded for more pictures on most of my worklogs for this project. Of course the fins will all be cleaned, filed, polished, and spaced parallel (and illuminated!) when all's said and done... but that comes later.

Tune in soon for more.

 

[Langer]

I thought that I should post some updated sketches showing the final outcome - more or less:
Exploded:
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Assembled:
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[Langer]

Over 4000 views since the last comment?!?! What gives?

Please feel free to comment or suggest mod ideas. =)

 

[fatzul]

ur ideas & creativity is out of this world, no comments needed for ur awesome project

 

[lunzi88]

wow, this mod project is unreal... did i say wow? Wow i cant stop saying wow.



























WOW!

 

[bob83hello]

u haf my respects dude!~

 

[gaoxingdcf]

Dude i only have one word for you : Respect !!
This is the most amazing rig i ever saw !!!

 

[lostboi]

kudos to langer for the eye opening hardcore modding..never seen anything like that....impressive

 

[Softcore]

when do u expect your project to do the finished launch? i think a lot of sites would like to do an article on this endeavour.

 

[tomism]

wow i read from 20-09-2008 to the very last post.. and i'll camp here for sure..

press on Langer!

Those carbon panels look wicked..

 

[crissama]

dude , its the epitome of beauty and also the showmanship in the PC CPU world.

full respect to you man =D