WEBVTT 00:00:02.000 --> 00:00:11.920 garbage. See, the proper way to prep plastic is to actually uh, you know, 00:00:08.720 --> 00:00:13.759 scuff it up and then use alcohol. So, 00:00:11.920 --> 00:00:19.039 the alcohol gets rid of the oils that are in the 00:00:16.240 --> 00:00:25.519 plastic because the oil is used as a release agent in the molding process. So 00:00:22.080 --> 00:00:27.039 when you try to paint over plastic, it 00:00:25.519 --> 00:00:34.199 doesn't always want to stick very well because of the oils and the alcohol will 00:00:29.279 --> 00:00:34.199 get rid of it. So little tip, 00:00:36.559 --> 00:00:41.520 I think there's like a lot of the areas 00:00:39.600 --> 00:00:45.760 where we're where we will be creative and some of the stuff we bought to be 00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:50.160 creative haven't even been really on camera at all yet. Um, so we want to get 00:00:47.840 --> 00:00:55.360 a super clean battle station, super clean build, and then uh add the 00:00:53.520 --> 00:00:58.399 flourish and like everything that's going to make this thing creative and 00:00:57.520 --> 00:01:06.159 unique. Tech Showdown is brought to you by Synergy 2 in partnership with G-Skill, 00:01:02.960 --> 00:01:08.159 be quiet!, and Cable Mod. 00:01:06.159 --> 00:01:13.040 Synergy 2 makes sharing your mouse and keyboard between multiple computers so 00:01:10.240 --> 00:01:18.560 simple that anyone can use it. Learn more at the link below. So, I'm painting 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:22.080 the uh case feet right now. So, we're going to do white on the whole case, but 00:01:20.640 --> 00:01:26.080 then we're going to do some accent pieces in in pink. So, some of the mesh 00:01:24.720 --> 00:01:31.119 and different things. So, we thought that pink feet would be kind of a nice 00:01:28.479 --> 00:01:34.520 contrast. So, just getting those painted ahead of time. 00:01:37.680 --> 00:01:45.439 Oh, fish eyes didn't get didn't get prepped very good. Yeah. So, if you 00:01:42.960 --> 00:01:50.880 don't prep something and clean it really good, uh I don't know if you can see it, 00:01:48.240 --> 00:01:56.159 but so the black little spots that you're seeing are what's called fish 00:01:53.360 --> 00:01:59.520 eyes. And so if there's a contaminant on the surface and you try to put paint, 00:01:58.159 --> 00:02:05.600 especially if it's like a oily contaminant, it will separate the paint 00:02:03.040 --> 00:02:09.240 from the surface. And so it leaves what they call a fisheye. 00:02:10.560 --> 00:02:18.959 So, this is the front panel piece. So, what I did was cut it down. Uh, we 00:02:16.480 --> 00:02:24.000 removed the actual door that would go here. And we're just going to make like 00:02:21.520 --> 00:02:29.360 a filler panel to set inside here. So, this was on the front of the actual 00:02:26.560 --> 00:02:35.200 door. And so, I took it off and it just had to be cut down a little bit. Oh my 00:02:31.440 --> 00:02:37.200 god, it's a perfect fit. Okay, we'll 00:02:35.200 --> 00:02:41.440 mount this in here so it's permanent. And then we're gonna have to drill a 00:02:38.560 --> 00:02:44.959 couple holes for our water cooling lines and then some mounting holes for the 00:02:43.040 --> 00:02:50.800 brackets for the reservoir. So our reservoir is going to Oh, I look great 00:02:47.120 --> 00:02:52.640 with it. So our reservoir is going to uh 00:02:50.800 --> 00:02:56.720 sit right here. And so looking at the front of the case, we'll have a 00:02:53.920 --> 00:03:00.080 reservoir on the outside. I do kind of wish that I had gone with a white primer 00:02:58.879 --> 00:03:04.560 if we were going to try and do any vibrant colors. But if we do go ahead 00:03:02.879 --> 00:03:09.519 with chocolate brown for real, then it'll work just fine. That actually 00:03:06.879 --> 00:03:14.720 looks super pro down there. All my parts drying. I mean, okay, super 00:03:12.319 --> 00:03:20.480 pro is probably an exaggeration, but okay. One of these parts is touching the 00:03:16.959 --> 00:03:24.720 saworse leg. 00:03:20.480 --> 00:03:27.599 Okay. Wait, I'm good. 00:03:24.720 --> 00:03:32.080 No, I'm using up all my pegboard. Just trying to find a spot for this to dry. 00:03:32.080 --> 00:03:39.040 So, my power button and my reset button 00:03:35.120 --> 00:03:40.720 are still in here. Um, 00:03:39.040 --> 00:03:44.799 I think I have an idea for how to mask them off, though. The problem is we 00:03:42.720 --> 00:03:50.640 don't have time to do like really tidy masking with, you know, razor blades and 00:03:46.720 --> 00:03:52.799 stuff. We need a piece of tape to cover 00:03:50.640 --> 00:03:58.879 what can't get paint on it. But, I think if I flex this out, then I can slip this 00:03:55.440 --> 00:04:00.799 under it. Actually, you know what? I 00:03:58.879 --> 00:04:08.319 think I'm going to leave the sticky side. Wow, this must be the world's 00:04:03.760 --> 00:04:10.879 crappiest masking tape. Brilliant. 00:04:08.319 --> 00:04:15.920 So, I think what I can do is just stick this in there and 00:04:13.680 --> 00:04:23.440 demonstrate once and for all that there's no problem you can't solve 00:04:18.880 --> 00:04:26.680 by flexing out and sticking it in there. 00:04:23.440 --> 00:04:26.680 Thank you. 00:04:28.000 --> 00:04:35.759 No, it's fine. I can work with this. Cuz that is what Tech Showdown is about. 00:04:33.199 --> 00:04:42.199 Working with what you got in spite of Ed's best efforts to sabotage everything 00:04:38.720 --> 00:04:42.199 you hold dear. 00:04:45.520 --> 00:04:50.080 Can of flat brown? No, no, no, no. Three cans of the um of 00:04:49.120 --> 00:04:53.600 the clear coat. And clear coat. Yeah. And you want three colors of brown 00:04:52.720 --> 00:05:01.199 still? Uh I I think so. Like if we're going, 00:04:57.199 --> 00:05:05.120 you know, shades of chocolate, then uh 00:05:01.199 --> 00:05:06.720 we might as well go shades of chocolate. 00:05:05.120 --> 00:05:12.240 Like I really didn't want to get into the whole like painting thing with this 00:05:09.919 --> 00:05:16.320 project, but these guys have forced our hand a little bit. Like we can't show up 00:05:14.240 --> 00:05:21.840 with a not painted system at this point. Oh man, I am I need Luke to get back 00:05:19.120 --> 00:05:25.919 here with more paint. Holy crap, this painting is taking longer than I had 00:05:23.280 --> 00:05:33.520 hoped. Okay. How long will you be there? Um, I just I'm out of primer. 00:05:29.759 --> 00:05:35.440 The multi-tononality of our color scheme 00:05:33.520 --> 00:05:41.280 is probably the only thing that saves this chocolate idea. So, I need to get 00:05:38.560 --> 00:05:45.280 literally everything taken apart where we 00:05:42.800 --> 00:05:50.000 were pretty screwed. Okay, so I'm officially out of primer, which means I 00:05:47.440 --> 00:05:52.880 have to find something else to do. I'm going to start with the monitor 00:05:51.039 --> 00:05:56.720 disassembly. So, in terms of color scheme for the 00:05:55.199 --> 00:06:03.120 monitor, frankly, I don't have a ton of options. We're going with uh with gold 00:06:00.880 --> 00:06:11.199 and chocolate. So, what I was kind of thinking was 00:06:07.360 --> 00:06:14.720 gold for this thin bezel frame. Then we 00:06:11.199 --> 00:06:18.560 do a brown desktop wallpaper. 00:06:14.720 --> 00:06:23.360 Then we do uh I mean for this standing I 00:06:18.560 --> 00:06:26.000 don't know. Um, like we could go gold 00:06:23.360 --> 00:06:30.880 all the way and then maybe I could mask off like a like a jagged line and we 00:06:28.240 --> 00:06:36.240 could have uh brown come out the bottom or something like that. But I mean, 00:06:34.080 --> 00:06:40.560 every every time I add, you know, masking, I'm adding more complexity to 00:06:39.360 --> 00:06:43.520 something I'm already not going to have a lot of time for. 00:06:42.400 --> 00:06:49.039 Is Luke back? Yeah. Hey. Hey, man. 00:06:45.840 --> 00:06:50.080 I have a wide mix of news for you. Uh 00:06:49.039 --> 00:06:55.919 oh. What is this? All good though, right? Um, mostly. 00:06:54.160 --> 00:06:59.520 Uh-huh. Start with the good 00:06:57.600 --> 00:07:04.080 and then tell me the better. Um, I got a lot of track. 00:07:02.560 --> 00:07:09.599 Okay. There weren't a lot of trains that you could put things in. 00:07:06.400 --> 00:07:10.639 Check this out. I got the logo off. 00:07:09.599 --> 00:07:14.639 So, we're going to be able to put that back on after we paint. Cool. 00:07:12.720 --> 00:07:19.120 But I got like this. So, we have a little station, 00:07:15.759 --> 00:07:21.039 which I think is cool. Um, I got this, 00:07:19.120 --> 00:07:22.720 which we can unscrew the top off of it and just use that bit. 00:07:22.400 --> 00:07:27.759 Cool. So, that could like be pouring off like the GPU or something if we want. 00:07:26.080 --> 00:07:30.560 Um, I got a little thing. So, if you want to have a pad on top of the computer. 00:07:29.680 --> 00:07:35.120 Dope. Okay. Um, this I think we could just like put 00:07:33.440 --> 00:07:38.880 some on it or something. I don't know. And then there's only like 00:07:37.440 --> 00:07:42.960 two that you can actually put things in, which is a little sad. Nope. I think we can live with that. 00:07:41.360 --> 00:07:47.759 That'll be the thing that pulls them. Uh, that's a caboose. Oh, does that 00:07:46.160 --> 00:07:51.720 push? No, I don't know. 00:07:53.199 --> 00:07:58.639 Does it matter? We We need one of the stack. All right. 00:07:56.479 --> 00:08:02.000 I can get that later. Might be cool. 00:08:00.240 --> 00:08:07.680 Um little firet truck. Sure. And a little ambulance. 00:08:05.039 --> 00:08:09.840 Oh lordy. Okay. Yeah, we need that. Yeah. Uh 00:08:08.400 --> 00:08:16.319 our team needs an ambulance. Yeah. Okay. 00:08:13.840 --> 00:08:22.560 I don't know if this is going to I don't know if this is going to translate to 00:08:19.280 --> 00:08:23.360 like foil wrapping, 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:29.080 but I'm sure going to It looks okay. 00:08:26.080 --> 00:08:29.080 Wow, 00:08:30.639 --> 00:08:34.759 this is tacky, dude. 00:08:38.159 --> 00:08:43.760 Oh god. No, I'm not. I'm worried about me. Keep painting. I'm worried about us. 00:08:42.560 --> 00:08:49.040 Keep painting, man. Don't you ever think about us? Oh my god. You have the primer, right? 00:08:46.800 --> 00:08:51.600 Only in therapy. No. 00:08:49.839 --> 00:08:54.600 Are you serious? Yes. 00:08:55.920 --> 00:09:03.680 Synergy 2 is designed to be easier and more seamless to use than Synergy 1. 00:09:00.959 --> 00:09:08.800 Features include sharing from anywhere with automatic control of any other 00:09:06.080 --> 00:09:13.680 computer without reconfiguring, SSL encryption to protect your keystrokes 00:09:10.640 --> 00:09:15.760 from attackers, dynamic networking so it 00:09:13.680 --> 00:09:20.640 detects the best route based on your setup, and being able to always run in 00:09:18.720 --> 00:09:26.000 the background on all your operating systems so you can set and forget. And 00:09:23.519 --> 00:09:29.760 it even works across VPNs and tricky home networks. If you get the pro 00:09:27.920 --> 00:09:33.839 version, you can get access to other cool features, too, like clipboard 00:09:31.680 --> 00:09:38.160 sharing, dragging and dropping files, copy pasting, lock screen 00:09:35.680 --> 00:09:41.839 synchronization, and lots more. You're not kidding right now. 00:09:39.279 --> 00:09:45.560 No, I'm not. Oh, that's bad. 00:09:50.880 --> 00:09:54.600 I will go get primer. 00:09:55.040 --> 00:10:01.519 Should I do Ace Hardware? Or should I just go to Home Depot? 00:09:59.600 --> 00:10:05.279 I don't know. Okay. Is there anything else you can do 00:10:03.440 --> 00:10:07.760 in the meantime? Uh, yeah. I can keep working on the 00:10:06.640 --> 00:10:11.600 monitor. I'll find Don't worry. I'll find things to do. Okay, cool. 00:10:10.000 --> 00:10:19.920 I swear I could have strangled Luke when he came back without primer. My level of 00:10:13.680 --> 00:10:22.880 impress went from here like here. I 00:10:19.920 --> 00:10:26.640 cannot believe he came back without the primer. 00:10:24.320 --> 00:10:32.079 Well, I got sick this morning, which was not good. Um, and I'm tired and I have 00:10:30.399 --> 00:10:37.760 to like go around the city and stuff and forget primer, which was like 00:10:35.920 --> 00:10:44.399 the main reason that I went to the store. So, that was pretty bad. So, Luke 00:10:40.720 --> 00:10:47.760 and I couldn't help noticing um while we 00:10:44.399 --> 00:10:50.000 were checking out their super boring 00:10:47.760 --> 00:10:54.399 generic candy color scheme over here that they have four tables. 00:10:52.480 --> 00:10:59.839 And meanwhile, we're scraping by with two. So, we've liberated a table. That's 00:10:57.120 --> 00:11:04.959 how we do in Canada. Hey, buddy. Actually, we'd probably just 00:11:02.720 --> 00:11:08.079 ask for it. But they're American. They wouldn't really like get it, you know? 00:11:06.640 --> 00:11:14.800 Hold on. Let me just get this hanging first. Yeah, it's good. Okay. 00:11:12.560 --> 00:11:20.000 So, everyone knows I just likes pink, right? And everyone knows Steve from 00:11:17.040 --> 00:11:25.040 Gamers Nexus is going to be like picky on the actual computer. 00:11:22.399 --> 00:11:28.440 But what these guys don't know is Central Park. 00:11:31.519 --> 00:11:38.880 Okay. What about it? I'll explain it in more detail later. Okay. I super don't get it. 00:11:38.000 --> 00:11:44.320 What? I don't I have no idea. So, we're almost 00:11:42.560 --> 00:11:49.519 done getting everything painted. We need to adjust the RAM to monitor a side 00:11:46.880 --> 00:11:52.800 panel. And once we have everything under paint, we got to run and grab a couple 00:11:51.120 --> 00:11:57.360 things that we couldn't get yesterday. And then we'll be back here and we have 00:11:55.120 --> 00:12:02.160 to lay a second color of paint on our tabletop. And we want to try to get that 00:11:59.760 --> 00:12:05.680 done about 4:00, which lets us let the paint set up a little bit, let us pull 00:12:03.839 --> 00:12:09.160 the tape, and then be done for the day and let it cure. 00:12:17.200 --> 00:12:24.000 I bet you did. Pretty good. Pretty darn good. So, it's 00:12:22.079 --> 00:12:26.880 going to it's going to be a little bit closer on the second coat as well 00:12:25.519 --> 00:12:33.160 because right now we have a lot of that white popping through. So, you're going 00:12:28.880 --> 00:12:33.160 to see that it's really close. 00:12:37.680 --> 00:12:41.240 It's just the shaking. 00:12:41.279 --> 00:12:46.480 We've actually done pretty well. Uh we 00:12:44.399 --> 00:12:53.120 just have uh we So, what we're going to do now is we're going to bond this 00:12:50.079 --> 00:12:56.560 little insert panel right here that we 00:12:53.120 --> 00:12:59.120 cut. We're going to bond it into this 00:12:56.560 --> 00:13:02.800 piece and let that sit overnight so that it's good and strong. And uh when we 00:13:01.440 --> 00:13:06.399 come back in the morning, it'll be locked in. It'll be solid. And then we 00:13:04.560 --> 00:13:10.160 can scuff it and paint it. This 00:13:08.480 --> 00:13:12.959 um that's the mark that I made when I 00:13:11.600 --> 00:13:16.959 kicked out my foot to try and keep it from falling. Okay. 00:13:15.440 --> 00:13:22.240 Oh, there. Oh, okay. It got that gold on it from the 00:13:21.680 --> 00:13:31.040 floor. Yeah. So, Luke, this is coat number three of the monitor. This is the point where 00:13:28.399 --> 00:13:34.399 this gold either starts to look good or uh we give up hope on it. 00:13:33.760 --> 00:13:43.680 Okay, cool. Yeah, cool. The biggest surprise for me today was 00:13:38.480 --> 00:13:45.519 how well the gold turned out. I um I was 00:13:43.680 --> 00:13:52.800 Oh, I was pretty worried when I saw the first coat cuz like you can never judge 00:13:48.880 --> 00:13:54.079 paint by the first coat, but it's a 00:13:52.800 --> 00:13:58.320 clue. That looks pretty all right. Yeah. Okay. 00:13:56.399 --> 00:14:01.839 Yeah, I'm actually down with that. Okay. Could maybe use like one more coat, but 00:14:00.800 --> 00:14:06.399 it's definitely coming together. Well, hey, one more coat is a hell of a lot easier there. Easier than, "Oh my god, 00:14:05.040 --> 00:14:11.279 blow it up. It's terrible." That whole thing that we were kind of 00:14:08.800 --> 00:14:16.160 told we couldn't do. I think they're going to go pretty far with that. 00:14:13.199 --> 00:14:19.040 You know what though? I honestly am not worried about that. 00:14:17.040 --> 00:14:25.480 You guys were told to do that. Well, we assumed based on that we had 00:14:21.519 --> 00:14:25.480 parts provided by sponsors. 00:14:26.320 --> 00:14:31.199 So, no, we weren't explicitly told we couldn't. 00:14:30.240 --> 00:14:35.920 I was you were okay. Well, I wasn't. 00:14:33.760 --> 00:14:38.920 I was told by you. Okay. 00:14:39.440 --> 00:14:44.800 You know how we observed that their system is like really safe? Like 00:14:43.360 --> 00:14:47.680 actually like boring? Yeah. I'm worried that they did that on 00:14:47.040 --> 00:14:56.399 purpose. What do you mean? I'm worried that uh that we're looking 00:14:52.800 --> 00:14:57.199 at sort of a a fraction 00:14:56.399 --> 00:15:01.440 of Well, don't look at it then. 00:14:59.839 --> 00:15:06.320 Is this a bad time to mention that I don't really know how to mask and I'm just kind of winging it? 00:15:04.959 --> 00:15:09.639 Uh, I already knew that. Oh, okay. 00:15:10.320 --> 00:15:17.160 If I hadn't already known that before today, I would have known it from 00:15:13.519 --> 00:15:17.160 watching you do it. 00:15:17.839 --> 00:15:24.160 So, there's that. I mean, it was based on your masking skills that I decided to 00:15:22.399 --> 00:15:28.560 do all the painting rather than hand off at some point. might have just uh 00:15:26.880 --> 00:15:33.199 damaged the finish on one of the most important parts, 00:15:30.959 --> 00:15:35.680 the frame of the monitor. Hold on. Let me see if I can retouch it while it's 00:15:34.720 --> 00:15:38.920 still wet, I believe. 00:15:41.199 --> 00:15:47.360 So, Luke, crazy thing. Um, 00:15:45.440 --> 00:15:51.440 I'm out of stuff to paint mouse. All right, done. Uh, 00:15:50.079 --> 00:15:55.600 unless you want me doing something else, but you're going to have to kind of disassemble it for me. 00:15:53.519 --> 00:16:00.160 Did you do the keyboard? Uh, 00:15:58.000 --> 00:16:03.560 I'm going to assume that I did, but I can't find it. 00:16:04.560 --> 00:16:09.839 If we use a bag to mask it off, we tie 00:16:07.680 --> 00:16:14.160 it nice and tight, then I think I can probably spray around it and hit the 00:16:11.360 --> 00:16:18.320 frame. Holy crap, it does look ridiculous. 00:16:15.040 --> 00:16:21.680 It looks crazy. Some mad scientist lab. 00:16:18.320 --> 00:16:24.320 Today was a blur because I was doing the 00:16:21.680 --> 00:16:28.600 same thing over and over and over again and I was on paint fumes. 00:16:29.120 --> 00:16:37.839 Well, that's what today is going to be like. Um, so I mean sample size of one, 00:16:35.759 --> 00:16:44.160 but other than me spitting on it just now making lightsaber noises, finish on 00:16:40.399 --> 00:16:45.759 this looks pretty good. I'm I'm really 00:16:44.160 --> 00:16:50.800 happy. So, I'm going to start hitting this with paint. My goal for today is to 00:16:48.320 --> 00:16:54.320 finish painting things so that tomorrow I don't have to look at another can of 00:16:52.399 --> 00:16:57.680 paint. Speaking of which, what am I doing? I'm 00:16:56.320 --> 00:17:01.920 going to finish taping off this power supply and then I'm going to finish doing some of the stuff that we were 00:17:00.399 --> 00:17:06.319 talking about to those tubes. Yes. And I need that thing. 00:17:03.759 --> 00:17:14.240 Yes. Ah. Ah. Yes. The thing. The secret weapon. Ah. So, turns out that I had a 00:17:11.039 --> 00:17:15.919 Threadripper block on my desk the whole 00:17:14.240 --> 00:17:20.720 time. I don't know where they're gonna get one. 00:17:18.160 --> 00:17:25.760 If the competition was two days, I think that would look awesome. 00:17:23.439 --> 00:17:30.640 You know what I mean? I like it. I'm I'm like pretty pleased 00:17:28.480 --> 00:17:35.520 with how this turned out actually. Iron Man. Yeah, man. Too bad that's not the team. 00:17:34.000 --> 00:17:38.919 I can't get any paint on where it is anyway. So, 00:17:40.559 --> 00:17:47.120 you good? Mhm. Okay. Yeah, I contained it. You don't look 00:17:45.520 --> 00:17:51.520 that good. Yeah, I know. I've like filled my mouth 00:17:48.799 --> 00:17:53.679 twice in the last 10 minutes. Pretty gross. 00:17:52.640 --> 00:17:59.039 Yeah, I know. All right, that needs to be primed, too. So, just the block and the feet of the 00:17:57.200 --> 00:18:04.480 monitor and then we're done priming. Okay. So, are we good for primer then? 00:18:01.919 --> 00:18:07.520 Yeah, we're good. But if I did send you to go buy more 00:18:06.320 --> 00:18:11.480 primer, that's what you would buy, right? Yes. 00:18:16.799 --> 00:18:24.240 Oh my god, I hate this nozzle. 00:18:22.240 --> 00:18:28.400 Also, it's leaking at the bottom. Freaking brilliant. I'm trying to 00:18:26.880 --> 00:18:35.039 imagine a way that I could be more pissed off by having two bad spray cans 00:18:32.320 --> 00:18:39.039 in a row. I think it looks chocolatey. 00:18:37.600 --> 00:18:44.080 I'm not going to get after them for the color. I think it looks chocolate. 00:18:41.919 --> 00:18:47.080 I don't think I could be more mad right now. 00:18:47.679 --> 00:18:55.600 While you and that color have had their differences, 00:18:51.200 --> 00:18:59.160 together something great has happened. 00:18:55.600 --> 00:18:59.160 Captain, pause. 00:19:00.640 --> 00:19:03.640 What? 00:19:16.559 --> 00:19:26.660 Um, my hand my fingers are Oh. 00:19:21.840 --> 00:19:29.120 Uh, well, our card's dead. 00:19:29.120 --> 00:19:38.240 Okay, you can use theirs. Yeah. Okay, we have another one. I just 00:19:35.760 --> 00:19:46.240 have to do all of this over again. So, 00:19:40.160 --> 00:19:50.240 our GPU can't be air cooled anymore. Um, 00:19:46.240 --> 00:19:50.640 cuz we ripped off the fan header. 00:19:50.240 --> 00:19:55.679 So, which is like ridiculously on here. What I'm trying to do right now is get the 00:19:54.240 --> 00:19:58.720 block part off of it cuz then you could just paint this. You 00:19:57.360 --> 00:20:04.080 just swapped the other card. Yeah. Yeah. 00:20:01.600 --> 00:20:10.080 I'm trying to salvage some of this. Okay. 00:20:06.400 --> 00:20:13.760 um sort of I laid it out on the ground 00:20:10.080 --> 00:20:16.160 but like sorry right now I am trying to 00:20:13.760 --> 00:20:23.120 get a rough idea of how this whole train track thing is going to be able to come 00:20:18.000 --> 00:20:25.760 together. I'm pretty unsure but I'm 00:20:23.120 --> 00:20:29.720 going to try to make it work. I'm still painting. Thanks for asking. 00:20:34.400 --> 00:20:39.919 You know what? Yeah, let's diarama it up for a little bit here 00:20:37.840 --> 00:20:43.200 just to make sure what I need to buy. We need to sanity check this. I don't 00:20:41.760 --> 00:20:47.919 want to go back to toy traders if we don't have to. So, I actually don't mind 00:20:45.200 --> 00:20:52.960 our idea at this stage. We got the train, we got the town, we 00:20:49.919 --> 00:20:55.200 got the theme. Um, I think the system is 00:20:52.960 --> 00:20:58.480 going to end up looking pretty sharp. I still have some deep concerns about the 00:20:56.799 --> 00:21:03.760 water cooling because I haven't figured out how I'm going to make the 00:21:01.840 --> 00:21:08.480 limited amount of tubing that we have work with the fact that I now have to 00:21:05.360 --> 00:21:10.159 integrate a reservoir and pump. 00:21:08.480 --> 00:21:16.159 Um, but my only concern at this point is the 00:21:13.520 --> 00:21:21.280 legs. Our plan for the legs completely fell through and we have no backup. 00:21:18.400 --> 00:21:26.080 People bought some candy from the candy train and are going to go to the park, I 00:21:24.480 --> 00:21:33.039 guess, cuz they're not there yet cuz they're by the candy train. Um, 00:21:29.919 --> 00:21:34.720 that that that's a dog. Um, 00:21:33.039 --> 00:21:38.559 it's a candy dog. Candy dog. It's a black licorice dog. 00:21:37.039 --> 00:21:43.840 It's not a black lab. It's a black licorice dog. Um, there there's a tree. 00:21:42.400 --> 00:21:49.440 I don't I don't know what um It's a lollipop tree. It's a lollipop tree. Uh, yeah. And then 00:21:48.000 --> 00:21:55.760 there's some shrubberies which are probably going to be jube jube shrubberies. I don't know. Every 00:21:53.679 --> 00:21:59.600 previous tech showdown, the setup has been that Lions and I go shopping in the 00:21:57.760 --> 00:22:03.360 morning before Tech Showdown actually starts and buy all of the stuff that 00:22:02.000 --> 00:22:08.000 we're going to use because we know the theme and then the entire duration of 00:22:05.360 --> 00:22:12.960 Tech Showdown is us implementing that theme. That's it. We have one shopping 00:22:10.480 --> 00:22:19.600 trip and we make it work. And with this tech showdown, we decided to sit there 00:22:16.720 --> 00:22:23.440 and try to visualize it or sit there and start taking things apart while trying 00:22:21.280 --> 00:22:27.360 to think of what we should do. And I think the best thing for us would have 00:22:24.960 --> 00:22:31.039 possibly been to just go to the dollar store and go to the other store and see 00:22:29.120 --> 00:22:34.960 what we can find like we did in previous episodes. I could also be totally wrong 00:22:32.880 --> 00:22:40.240 about that. I don't know. I just think our theme isn't super great. Okay. So, 00:22:37.039 --> 00:22:42.159 I've got all my tape uh 00:22:40.240 --> 00:22:47.760 put back over the white area so that I can just stay stay with the same pink 00:22:45.120 --> 00:22:53.679 area that I had before and uh tried to get it as close as I can to the same 00:22:50.080 --> 00:22:55.919 edge so that um it doesn't look wiggly 00:22:53.679 --> 00:23:00.400 or anything like that. So, uh it doesn't have to be super perfect, but I'm going 00:22:58.480 --> 00:23:04.240 to go ahead and just roll the pink back over the top of this. You can maybe see 00:23:02.640 --> 00:23:09.120 on the camera there's some light areas and dark areas. And so you'll get that 00:23:06.640 --> 00:23:13.200 just on your first coat. And so on the second coat and then if you go with like 00:23:10.720 --> 00:23:19.480 a third coat, um it'll darken up more and more each time. So it'll it'll um 00:23:15.919 --> 00:23:19.480 become more solid. 00:23:35.600 --> 00:23:43.440 That is better. But just magnetic. 00:23:40.799 --> 00:23:47.520 So those just drop on. Now we have our pink and white mouse to 00:23:45.679 --> 00:23:52.520 match and they are ready to lock into place. 00:24:08.799 --> 00:24:19.950 Oh, except for it won't it won't look right on the inside corners when we go. 00:24:20.320 --> 00:24:29.760 Wow. So, this is an awesome fact. only 60 calories, contains 20 servings at 60 00:24:25.919 --> 00:24:33.279 calories. We have to put our steel uh 00:24:29.760 --> 00:24:35.760 bendable rods into our lollipop. So, I 00:24:33.279 --> 00:24:41.600 got to cut the uh dowel off. And now I'll have to drill a small hole in to 00:24:37.679 --> 00:24:43.400 fit the uh steel rod just right. Third 00:24:41.600 --> 00:24:49.310 one. 00:24:52.799 --> 00:25:04.640 Yeah, sweet pink. A little lighter, but not too bad. Okay. 00:25:05.600 --> 00:25:09.120 A lot of pain on this part. 00:25:17.120 --> 00:25:24.640 keyboard is all pink keys, white keyboard 00:25:22.720 --> 00:25:30.799 and uh with the white PCB cover underneath. We should get a nice sweet 00:25:26.880 --> 00:25:33.679 glow from the uh 00:25:30.799 --> 00:25:38.159 car. This might be a trick. What? This might be a trick to get this to stay. 00:25:36.400 --> 00:25:43.039 Oh, why am I so long? Oh, that's right. I left it long, though. 00:25:40.640 --> 00:25:48.159 Oh, dang it. Okay, so here's the little box I made. 00:25:45.600 --> 00:25:52.320 Um, the adhesive is still a little bit on the sticky side. 00:25:50.720 --> 00:25:56.799 Oh, nice, dude. What? That's awesome. Does it? Oh, dude, that does look good. 00:25:55.840 --> 00:26:01.120 Isn't that sweet? Yeah, that's sweet. All right, I up, too. It bubbled up and 00:26:00.320 --> 00:26:05.200 looked horrible. Really? Oh, yeah. Huh? 00:26:03.840 --> 00:26:09.440 like you guys. Oh, not quite. Actually, Colton actually 00:26:07.840 --> 00:26:13.200 thought we did do it for a living. Oh, no. We don't. 00:26:11.840 --> 00:26:17.360 We have day jobs, man. Yeah. I said something about working on 00:26:15.120 --> 00:26:23.200 servers and stuff, and he's like, "You what?" Like, yeah, both of us do this as 00:26:21.520 --> 00:26:28.000 kind of a professional hobby, I think, is the best way to describe it. We try 00:26:25.600 --> 00:26:34.720 to achieve professional results, but both of us work 5 days a week. And uh 00:26:31.760 --> 00:26:39.279 we're up here all week on vacation. That's a really bad ugly contrast. 00:26:36.640 --> 00:26:45.200 We could pull we could paint them. The the problem is durability of paint, but 00:26:42.159 --> 00:26:48.320 wow. That's that's hideous. 00:26:45.200 --> 00:26:49.919 Um we could just pull this front cover 00:26:48.320 --> 00:26:53.440 and just blast the whole thing. Yep. Yeah, I'm going have to do that. 00:26:51.760 --> 00:27:00.559 I have to fix a couple of these heights, but that's hideous. Um okay, so yeah, 00:26:56.880 --> 00:27:03.039 keyboard, mouse, monitor, tower. Bob's 00:27:00.559 --> 00:27:07.919 an OCD freak, which makes working with him sometimes really challenging, 00:27:04.559 --> 00:27:10.159 especially since I'm not at all. And he 00:27:07.919 --> 00:27:15.120 gets easily distracted. But, uh, you know, having someone who's 00:27:12.559 --> 00:27:20.080 an OCD freak on a case modding team, it's pretty 00:27:17.760 --> 00:27:24.080 valuable because everything gets put exactly the way it should be on the 00:27:21.919 --> 00:27:28.320 finished product. And that sound means it's the end of the 00:27:25.919 --> 00:27:32.480 workday and the end of the show. Tune in next week when the boys will assemble 00:27:29.919 --> 00:27:37.279 their final builds and present them to the three celebrity judges. Will I, 00:27:34.799 --> 00:27:42.799 Justine, be tickled pink? Will Central Park leave its mock on Riley? And will 00:27:40.240 --> 00:27:49.279 Steve Burke of Gamers Nexus be impressed by things that Steve Burke of Gamers 00:27:46.000 --> 00:27:52.080 Nexus would be impressed by? All will be 00:27:49.279 --> 00:27:54.960 revealed next week on the final episode of Tech Showdown.