that's kind of epic :👍

Let me calculate, I forgot.

 

PC Components:

100€

450€

300€

300€

200€

100€

300€

300€

100€

 

Yes im an apple fag now but these keys really are great and very slim too. Slim is crucial.

 

 

Cooling:

100€

140€

70€

50€

50€

 

I will DIY the water reservoir too since nothing else really fits well.. I am planning to fold bronze and solder the edges together using silver. Never done thia before, hope it works.

50€

 

 

Case:

Wood (Druckpressplatte)

40€

Aluminum edges

10€

Locks and hinges

30€

Race grille to protect radiators, PSU etc

30€

Are you following a tutorial and if so which one

No, I did all the research and planning myself

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Holy shit.

You have to be careful with mixing different metals into your waterloop. You will have aluminum or copper in there already. The more noble metals will eat away the other one and the corrosion particles may clog it. Bronze seems pretty prone to corrosion to me.

You can get all sorts of different plastic bottles if you just browse a supermarket for plastic containers. Drill holes for connectors. Problems werent.

Another alternative would be to look for custom aquarium building tutorials. Cut plexiglass, glue it together and then seal it with silicone. Seems to be easier and safer to me.

Thanks for summing it up.

 

My loop is copper only. Copper and Silver seem to get along well and I will seel connections with silicon anyway.

Also, silver is said to be uaeful against microbes amd funghi in fluids. I am consodering to put some silver in my water reservoir but i am not sure yet.

 

 

Wtf obviously I meant to write copper. Lmao.

This is the hardest 3D part I have ever designed.

I will try to print them in ABS because they might need to withstand temperatures higher than 60 degrees.

 

Last time I tried to print ABS, my printer broke.

Wish me luck.

 

 

 

edit: these are motherboard stands, 5mm tall.

Plate cutting done.

In the end the suitcase will be about 17cm tall.

 

In pic4 you see how I will connect the plates. Obvioisly I will drill holes for the screws first.

Bought ans mask, set up some airflow and preheating the printer to insert the ABS.

Printing ABS results in toxic fumes so this is important.

Meh.

Will have to twerk the settings.

Why is printing ABS so hard?

God dammit.

 

I'm close to ditching the ABS and just use wood -.-

Seems like I have stored my ABS filament badly and it absorbed moisture. Apparently ABS does that a lot faster than PLA. This moisture is now fucking up my prints.

 

So wood it is.

Garch alarm! No wonder you spend so much money on a computer. You are loaded.

 

I would recommend you try connecting two pieces of plywood with a screw like that on two pieces of scrap beforehand. The single layers of plywood are usually not that well connected and it will be really prone to splitting when you insert a screw between them even with predrilled holes.

I would have made rabbet joints without screws which would have been plenty. Maybe with some nails or even splines if you want it extra strong.

Why don't you just 3d print your water reservoir if you have the means to 3d print?

 

Can't you just heat it in the oven to dry it out? I read that this works with PLA.

it is not mine.

 

I'm afraid that the plastic will dissolve over time and clog my tiny cooling fins.

 

Great idea. I will read about this.

Not anymore after this.

Sadly money doesn't grow on trees anymore ;-;

 

I need this. How else will I run Llama locally?

My cousin will inherit my soon to be old PC from 2016.

Side panels for the top lid are done.

The radiator fans will get air through these holes when operating in suitcase closed mode.

How did you cut the grooves for the mesh?

Top lid will be combined like this.

(radiators are upside down in this pic)

 

 

I DIY'd a razor blade for a dremel with the right thickness

What will be the total weight of the final system?

About 10kg

 

 

 

Building the water tank.

Hope this is tight lmao.

have you been building the pc for 9 days now?

come on hes literally building it from wood and shit.

I finally figured out how to properly work with metal, I actually had to do a second water reservoir because the first one (left) turned out too shitty.

 

I also learned how to print ASA filament and the results are great. I got better in CAD software too.

 

I'm a busy man.

Looks nice and steampunkish.

How did you connect the plexiglas to the copper? Silicone?

Finally made some nice progress this weekend. It's starting to get a form :)

 

I used epoxy resin as glue