New TJ07 cooling project...could use your help/ideas

[masaville]

Hey masaville,

Where did you get those L brackets that you use to mount those EK reservoirs?

You can pick them up in any local hardware store in just about any size. If I recall those brackets are 2" L brackets, might be 2.5". I can double check for you if you need to know as I'm not 100% positive on the size. The ones I picked up have a longer hole where the reservoir is mounted with it's single bolt (if you look at the larger version of my avatar pic you can see it). That allowed me to position the reservoirs perfectly and surprisingly, with the two EKs linked together it fit perfectly. Didn't have to drill any holes except to mount the brackets on the sides of the cage.

I also bought a big bag of tiny little L brackets that allowed me to easily bolt the hard drives on to the side of the 5.25" cage and use a gromet to reduce noise....pics coming soon. I originally mounted the hard drives up top, but decide to move the DVD to the top bay and mounted the disks on the outside of the cage, backside of the PC. I was concered about temps so I monitored them with case panels off/on and it made very little difference to disk temps. Technically I could mount 2 more drives on the other side of the cage, but I really don't need 4 disks, especially considering how large they are nowadays.

The local hardware store has everything you need, just have to be a little creative in your design and thinking.

I get all of my remaining hardware today so I'll be mounting the lighting tonight and putting up some final pics.

Btw guys, I ripped off those black tubes as per your requests. lol