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    ahh ok, excuse me, i hadn't seen you were using a heat gun. (i am ashamed, lowers head) Yes, lighter is a needbe for the keeping the ends of the sleeving from fraying.

    Great, amazing, spectacular,awe inspiring work here.

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    Excellent work Shazza.

    I like the guillotine for cutting the heatshrink, very cool.

    Looking forward to the next update.

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    Originally Posted by vistageek92
    wait wait wait, you have a sata 3.0 board? Where did i miss that? Are those cables required for full 6gb use of a sata 3.0 board? Or can you still use the old sata cords and get 6gb/s?


    you need the sata 3.0 cables for the 6gb/s tranfers, in lamens turns...they have a different number of turns AND can read/write at the same time (least last time i read up on the beta for them) the different size of the turns makes it so that the data can travel faster...in this case about 2x as fast. they are a thicker cable as can easily be seen by the picture, but imho well worth any extra cable management u might need for that XD (one of those hooked up to a sata3.0 ssd hdd...PFM ) that and 1080p webcams requires it...

    btw that sleeving looks AMAZING and where are ya'll finding these hobby heat guns? i only have lighters...and i hate the dirty look they give, but i'm not willing to go spend 69$(cheapest heatgun i've found at the local walmart and homedepot AND menards...=/living in the middle of nowhere sux when u need parts...)

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    Quote Originally Posted by 4GOTTEN View Post

    btw that sleeving looks AMAZING and where are ya'll finding these hobby heat guns? i only have lighters...and i hate the dirty look they give, but i'm not willing to go spend 69$(cheapest heatgun i've found at the local walmart and homedepot AND menards...=/living in the middle of nowhere sux when u need parts...)
    Hate to admit it but I saw an ad for a heat gun at harbor freight for 7.99 and it has worked flawlessly so far.

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    Picked up a hobby heat gun from hobby lobby for like $15. Works perfectly

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    LOL i wish i had a hobby lobby near here, had one while i was in college...but nearest one to me is about 5.5hours away, in rapid city, SD. i'll just find one online XD

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    Need Help !!!

    I would really like to mount my reservoir horizontally. Never having done it before, I thought I'd give it a shot.


    The test bed:






    You can't really see the noisy bubbles, because of the shutter speed - a little better representation here:






    This is what my vortex action looked like in the stand-up position - as expected, I'd guess, given there is not much restriction in the loop:










    Any suggestions? Anybody here every run the EK multi-option res in a horizontal config?

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    add a fill line off the end just a small one and have the res on an angle for bleeding. once bled out it should be alright I would think. The res just has to be completely full.
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    Sharon,

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jokester_wild View Post
    add a fill line off the end just a small one and have the res on an angle for bleeding. once bled out it should be alright I would think. The res just has to be completely full.
    Thanks, Jokester. Yeah - I tried that before, but still had some bubbles - so obviously didn't get it full. Tried it again, and just can't quite get all the bubbles out - but it was considerably better.

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    Thanks, CP - I think it's okay to post a link to a work log at TPU I'll follow up and see if I can get some info. It's hard to find logs with horiz. reservoirs - uh, could be cause it ain't the smartest way to go


    Keep the ideas coming. I'm going to experiment some more with fill / bleed lines and see what I can come up with.

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    Quote Originally Posted by shazza View Post
    Thanks, Jokester. Yeah - I tried that before, but still had some bubbles - so obviously didn't get it full. Tried it again, and just can't quite get all the bubbles out - but it was considerably better.

    Thanks, CP - I think it's okay to post a link to a work log at TPU I'll follow up and see if I can get some info. It's hard to find logs with horiz. reservoirs - uh, could be cause it ain't the smartest way to go


    Keep the ideas coming. I'm going to experiment some more with fill / bleed lines and see what I can come up with.
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    No problem, CP - made me feel special

    Quick try with a short fill/bleed line - works wonders. One should never doubt the laws of physics.

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    The fill line is great, because you can fill and top off while the loop is running once you fill it almost all the way.


    I kinda like the vortex though.... But of course, there must be some horrible physics problem that completely ruins the thermal efficiency of the loop and causes the tubing to vibrate and rotate and unscrew compression fittings and spray liquid everywhere which is why people don't do it, right?

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    Quote Originally Posted by shazza View Post
    No problem, CP - made me feel special

    Quick try with a short fill/bleed line - works wonders. One should never doubt the laws of physics.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Wezly View Post
    The fill line is great, because you can fill and top off while the loop is running once you fill it almost all the way.


    I kinda like the vortex though.... But of course, there must be some horrible physics problem that completely ruins the thermal efficiency of the loop and causes the tubing to vibrate and rotate and unscrew compression fittings and spray liquid everywhere which is why people don't do it, right?
    haha no. You only run into trouble when its getting bad enough to be sucking in air.
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    Thanks guys ... and Jokester, appreciated the prod to try the fill tube - I had planned to use one in the final build, but didn't originally have one in the mock-up. It's pretty obvious how it works, once I saw it in action

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    Thanks Jokester_wild. I'm gonna go start on a vortex, just for the fun of it.

    Shazza, when are you going to render this into your current build?

    You're getting like Xion with these "picture tricks"

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    No tricks here - just trying things out BEFORE putting them into the case Now comes finalizing tubing layout, measuring, and more for the bottom section.

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    Looks good Shazza.
    It's one of the nice things about the XS community, there's always someone out there to help, well done.

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    Thanks, kgtiger - yep, always get help around here.


    Will have some real updates in a few days, but have been diverted. Lou had rotator cuff surgery this week. The ice pack they gave him is a pain, so been working on a prototype cooling solution - still some work to do, obviously:





    (prototyping on the good shoulder, fortunately the surgery was on the left one. Apologies for the poor quality snapshot, my patient was not in the mood for more)

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    What a husband you have, not only is he putting up with your computer addiction, he is putting up with your shenanigans.

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    LoL, love the picture. He looks so pleased with your invention=P

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    Not at your husband, your cooling device!

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    Hahahahah, brilliant!
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    Hilarious! You can inform Lou that if he needs somebody to take good care of his train set while he gets lots of r & r, I'll be willing to sacrafice my time.

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