yeah scrapyard Wars scrapyard Wars 2 the
scrapping we are headed to Andrew sheret again um the plan this time is to get um
some fittings probably so we can adapt her from that heater cord that I got to
the copper tubing so we can adapt her from the flexible tubing to the copper
tubing and I might pick up one of those copper caps again uh just so we don't
waste a trip if I decide to water cool the graph
card all right so Andre sure went well
I'm basically out of budget for water
cooling stuff um but I still need that plate so
let's go see if we can figure that out I just did some counting of a lot of
change cuz that's all I have left for a water cooling budget I have
$6.20 left I have one more thing to buy
and it's a copper plate I'm hoping they'll just give it to me because I
bought half a pound and they only gave me 0.125 which is fine cuz that's all I
needed but so if I get a different dude this time that's like no you have to buy
the minimum quantity then it'll be twice that price and then I super definitely
can't afford it it's technically a two
priority but I think I need to mod the
case because if I don't do that it's
going going to be very difficult for me to
know how much space I have for my copper
coil you just unscrew that you don't need to grind it off ah it's
riveted awesome a little bit bigger
totally work yeah great I'm not wor l no
okay you do want all my change
no okay awesome I mean technically I had
to overcharge you on the other thing yesterday I that's actually why I
brought this back in but I was it was would have been totally fair if you
didn't hon that anyways yeah supposed to you I was going to say you also were
supposed to charge me a full pound so I don't know awesome thank you very much
no problem I'm going to get to work have a good day yeah you
too
damn freaking batter's
dying someone unplugged the drill battery charger
thing the battery the spare battery wasn't fully charged I'm in pretty bad
shape there's things that I can do but I
want to get this done right now oh that's bloody impossible
um it is supposed to it might work for the tubing but I'm
supposed to be able to tighten it up and then pull it around and cut it but this
thing's so big compared to it that I can't rotate it while it's
inside so I have no idea how I'm supposed to do it and because it's on a
curve already if I try to rotate it while it's
inside it's like it doesn't sit properly and and like I can't rotate it past this
angle so I don't know I could be doing something wrong but I'm probably going
to have to cut it with a drel on the end anyways and then I bought that tool for nothing um luckily tools don't come out
of the main budget but I still feel really dumb buying that tool if it's not
going to work at all it'll it'll work for the the copper
tubing but that's just
brutal
go that way please honey you're not going to be able to take your try
through the garage off you
go I have to wait for Mom first no mommy
will be at the front go go let's hope he doesn't text a drive anytime
soon Dremel tool my
ass that that is a rotary
cutter okay well this is clearly got
absolutely no strength left after I did that so um I don't even know how much
point there is leaving it on
there where's my axe it's over there
thank you
oh okay no problem okay here we
go man I love this thing okay I'm sorry did you say steel
case construction I'm sorry did I say anything that sounded like I give a
probably got enough room for our copper
coils but I'm not sure if we can still put a
computer in
here
any other case modification we do will be relatively minor I might drill a hole
here or there uh but now we've done the
vast majority of the cutting that I foresee us needing to do I ended up
leaving this in I think that should be okay so the plan then is Reservoir
here coil all up the front of the case then
maybe if we can end here then coil here
and coil all in front of the power supply and then end here and coil here
or something down GPU I really hope we can figure this
out red green would almost be
proud du yeah that's why
almost H was that the idea uh yeah I wanted
this in the middle oh
well did you break
it oh yeah darn shoot that's
terrible two places okay this is a big problem
because now we need to find something pretty much exactly this size because
the pump has to fit in whatever Reservoir we're using so I had already
validated those two components to work together I really didn't think it was
going to be that fragile there was only one left one what one of these where I
bought it oh
no yeah let's find out just how broken it is it's possible the cracks don't go
all the way through this one's pretty deep
okay huh is it good it's too early to
say but it's possible that we got away with
one here that came from the top that's
there's there's water here what we're looking at is right here and even as I
put stress on it nothing comes out then
this one which I thought was actually much less likely to like we might have
gotten away with one
here
um
so while we were having lunch my neighbor arrived at home so we are
heading over there with our raw materials and our components that we
need to cool and hopefully we will have
some kind of a plan within the next I don't know hour or so for how we can
turn this into something that fits on
that exciting times now internet this is John John this is
the internet the internet is it all right
you guys you guys are going to be blown away by this garage it makes our
workshop look less awesome John makes
okay solar power digital scoreboards that's right basically that's awesome
runs off the sun radio control no wires
slice and dice come on guys and my my
buddies so pretty much the kind of gear he has in here is
mindboggling so he like makes all kinds of little gadgetry like this these coils
in here all pretty much by hand except the tools that he has that he builds
himself by hand this is why we're here
this is a CNC machine oh
wow here's what we need to design today
these are our raw materials okay and this little doad so
for we've got our graphics card can turn okay that's your graphics card pull that
baby off so this is pretty simple all
these 9 11 okay need to be covered by
this and we could of kind of score it or something to get kind of a heat sinky
sort of effect to it and then we got to carve out a spot for that and I'm just
going to stick it on there no problem so that's pretty easy that's your little
sink then this is where things start to get more difficult so these two pieces
combined will be our CPU water block and
they need to go right on top of the CPU here and then we need some kind of a um
we need a way to seal it around the outside no problem more modern CPU block
designs tend to use micro channels or micro fins directly over where the CPU
die is going to sit but because we're not using the kind of sophisticated
Machinery much tighter than that so on tigh much on a much much tighter scale
and very very short but we don't have the kind of Machinery that would allow
us to build something like that you can cut it pretty accurately oh yeah I could
do a little tiny between this point and this point here I could probably
do uh 20 25 uh little
channels okay that's not too bad we can work on that one thing we want to be
careful of too is we don't want the design to be too restrictive too flow
restrictive because I know it'll it'll oh I see what you're saying we li in
terms of our pump budget thanks to the constraints of this project I got you
okay so what we'd want to do is we would probably want to bring the whole thing
down a little bit so that it can flow freely over top if it wants but it can
also sit around in see I got you then as far as this goes we'll just tap uh some
uh holes in the corners y uh to and die
thing and then we'll use silicone around
the side here and put it on here now
again more Advanced CPU block designs would use a rubber gasket which is
removable and replaceable but because we don't have the uh time or necessarily
resources to Source a custom rubber
gasket for our block uh we're going to go with a more permanent solution which
isn't to say that a silicone seal is permanent permanent you could rip it
apart and re silicone it and seal it back up it's just not quite as elegant a
solution as you know if we were to commercially manufacture them back up a
little bit you oh you want to put in a rubber gasket now no I can do better
than that this could um cut out our gasket for us using vinyl does that work
oh yeah for sure for sure for sure or like for
sure closer to
you makes me feel close to you
somehow
let's see if he wants to talk to us right now or if he'd prefer to wait till later also I need to give him his pen
back cuz I stole it I believe about 15
minutes after you left it broke a bit no
way I got a spare one put a cheaper bit in this one isn't as
much I'll just run it
slower
sorry this ended up being a much bigger project than a little bit it was
supposed to be but if we reduce the scope if we kill
the graphics card then that should help it fair bit I hope
sorry about this I just want to curl up into a ball and cry I'm going to I'm
going to do that later oh with or
something oh I'm TI I haven't even
been doing this following you
around so lonus how did it go today so it's the
end of day two we have abandoned our
plan to build a GPU water block we
still really don't know how to get
enough copper coiled into the case to
dissipate the heat from our CPU even so it's probably a good thing the GPU block
isn't happening and we still haven't even put
the holes in our Reservoir and finished our CPU block we
still don't actually have a way to put our fittings into the CPU block the good
news is we can free up some budget by
returning some things tomorrow I can return GPU fittings for example so we
need a tap for that pipe thread which Lord only
knows where we're going to find and then
yeah we're going to have to get at it pretty bright and early
tomorrow