Fun with The Torture Rack

[Chicken Patty]

BP poster girl? Then show us the poster

I used some BP fittings in my last build and I must say I will never buy another fitting again. THey are just top notch I will be tearing down my rig in the upcoming months to just kinda replace a few things, and whatever fitting is left that is not BP will be replaced by a BP fitting !!

[shazza]

BP poster girl? Then show us the poster

I used some BP fittings in my last build and I must say I will never buy another fitting again. THey are just top notch I will be tearing down my rig in the upcoming months to just kinda replace a few things, and whatever fitting is left that is not BP will be replaced by a BP fitting !!

BP poster girl with the focus on BP, not the girl

[Chicken Patty]

Darnit, you got me there

Regardless, that is some sexy stuff

[charles_h]

mmm... glorious eye-candy...

Shazza, that job you did with the blue sleeving is pure perfection!

Bravo!

[gillbot]

Welllllll ... it was on my mind, especially since I just saw the latest pic of your Primochill tubing on your Classified ... but I've yet to see a finished pic in YOUR LOG

Wouldn't he need to FINISH something first?

[DarthBeavis]

mmm... glorious eye-candy...

Shazza, that job you did with the blue sleeving is pure perfection!

Bravo!

ditto

[dreamaxx]

lol darth.

dammit shazza. You're making my feel like my sleeving isn't good enough

[Sadasius]

dammit shazza. You're making my feel like my sleeving isn't good enough

Tell me about it....Her sleeving is on a professional level that is for sure. Doesn't help either when you have sausages for fingers...

[Jokester_wild]

umm sexy eye candy. I love bitspower and your pictures.

[Sabre2]

All this work to sleeve a PSU and what if you have to RMA it and they replace it with a non sleeved PSU? You know im running into this problem with some of my watercooled things. I set it all up, worked fine, then board just dies. Took me almost 5 months to redo everything because I knew it would take me an entire weekend just to get everything appart, put new parts in and redo most of the hard work I had done. Im running into a problem with this Microcool Banchetto where i thought I had read it was compatible with Thermochill rads and it's not.

This thread is great, love to see all this hard work, attention to detail is always good in my books. Good luck!

[dpokrajac0]

those bp are so nice.

[shazza]

Thanks folks ... I hope you do realize my point in posting my sleeving experience was actually to show I wasn't very good But with some helpful tips, it's getting better. And, I'll be feeling guilty til I go back and redo the Mountain Mods cube-o-color.

@Sabre2 ... you have a good point on the PSU sleeving / warranty issue, but some have actually returned PSUs they've sleeved for repair. In my case, I've already contacted Silverstone about replacement cables - and received an answer within 4 hours!, so I should be covered if there is an issue.


So, what did today bring? An urge to try and paint my radiators ... we are yet to know how successful this endeavor has been - will report back in a day or two. For now, a few pics of W-I-P:




Hmmmnnnn, the painter's tape is exactly the color I want - probably should skip the painting and just tape 'em up:





First coat of primer going on in my homemade spray box:





First one after several coats ... drying overnight. We'll see if it needs more paint tomorrow, maybe a light touch of wet sanding.




Happy to report, no injuries so far today. Although I might have joined the "Blue Hair" crowd a few years earlier than I'd hoped

[oggie]

Damn good job as usual shazza, keep up that quality work

[Chicken Patty]

great work Shazza!

[PeterStoba]

I like what I see so for, absoloutely love it! The blue on the rad is very nice.

Sorry if you're previously said it, but, what sleeving is that?

[pingpong1455]

nice work shazza nice bitspower fittings to

i havent even done my first loop and ive got bitspower fever

[shazza]

Thanks oggie, Chicken Patty, and pingpong1455 ... this paint job is coming out a little better than my previous ones, but I do have a slight orange peel effect, so we'll work on that tomorrow.








100% Crop of the paint surface:




@ PeterStoba - the sleeving and heatshrink are MDPC materials, purchased from murderMods - BlueAqua/Kirk had limited amounts of blue available here in the US, as he reported a couple of weeks ago in the Cable Sleeving thread - not sure what the status is now.

[Liderc]

Might just be the blue not liking the primer. Can probably sand down the blue without hitting the primer and reshoot the blue for the final finish.

[shazza]

Thanks, Liderc ... that may be the issue. It's only noticeable at high magnification, but a bit of wet sanding and respraying seems to be doing the trick.

BUT ... what a day!!!! The rest of my parts came, so I assembled my CPU loop to leak test. Jumpered the Silverstone PSU ... fans run, but no pump action. Yikes, must be a bad pump. Set up a new MCP 355 ... same no action. OK, odds are, 2 pumps are not bad. Hooked up my ol' trusty PCP&C 510W PSU ... pump now works. HMMMMMMMMmmmmmm. Set up everything else for a quick look ... Board/CPU/MEM all seem to be working fine with a successful post into the BIOS. Now to sort out the Silverstone PSU. Fortunately, I had not wasted my life sleeving all those cables yet.

[gOtVoltage]

[QUOTE=shazza;3813282] I do have a slight orange peel effect, so we'll work on that tomorrow.








100% Crop of the paint surface:




QUOTE]


Sometimes before you shoot the paint ,,

(Stand the Can in HOT tap water for 3-5 minutes then shake).

Wipe water from bottom of can so no drips , drop, before spraying.

This will allow the paint to lay flatter when it hits the spray surface.

8-10" from surface is usually about optimal can distance for outside spraying.

(12" or more " from surface and the paint will dry in the air before it hits surface.

This can cause
ORANGE peel.

Usually after priming, Just spray a haze of blue every 5 minutes untill you can barely see primer. Once primer is covered from hazing then give a full light coat. let dry and give final coat.

The water trick works every time , more so if the tempurature is above 65f outside.

Hope that helps ya down the road..

Not so easy making Cans of Paint spray like a Auto shop. I prefere Airgun , but there are times when you need paint out of a Can to look premo


Your Build is amazing,, Drooling over those pics.

[shazza]

Thanks, gOtVotage ... I did do the hot water trick, but I'm thinking I may have been spraying from a bit far away, as I didn't want to breathe the stuff. Plus, it was pretty warm when I was spraying ... probably caused it to dry quickly as well. I'll give it another go.

And ... reporting back that my DA 750 PSU seems fine ... duh, I guess it's one of those that needs a bigger load to get full voltage going. Drat, no excuse now to not get at that sleeving. But first, let's test out the GPU loop.

[Chicken Patty]

glad the 750PSU is going now, post some new pics already would ya

[shazza]

glad the 750PSU is going now, post some new pics already would ya

Everything is running under water now ... CPU and GPU seem to be doing fine. Gotta take a time out to have a cold beer and go for a swim. Will see if I can grab some pics tonite or tomorrow --- but still very much a W-I-P. Those pesky cables are calling me ... they want to be blue

[Chicken Patty]

Everything is running under water now ... CPU and GPU seem to be doing fine. Gotta take a time out to have a cold beer and go for a swim. Will see if I can grab some pics tonite or tomorrow --- but still very much a W-I-P. Those pesky cables are calling me ... they want to be blue

hahahaha thats cool. Go enjoy some time off then get the pics


Have ever thought of a theme song for your rig? Not sure if this is the actual video, but just listen to the song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8lINhk8k8g

[Aielman]

I took the spare 4-pin connector for the PSU and de-pinned it. Then, I tried 4 different approaches to placing the heatshrink:







Tested each in the connector. The top two wouldn't allow the pin to fit all the way into the socket. The 3rd one gave a good pin connection, but a bit of yellow showed. The last one was jussssttttt riggggghhhhhttt:

Now that's odd. Because when I did the sleeving for my main power cable on the HX1000, I found that your second choice was just right. It would slide in and if I pushed just a bit, it would click into place with no wire showing but a snug fit of the shrinkwrap up against the socket.

Huh...different sockets on the different brands maybe.