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  1. Andyl
    PC Design Foundry Then today I finished up assembling the distributors and the doors. With the power supply side door installed. Both doors installed. I am now building a box to ship it in.
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    PC Design Foundry Hi All Been working hard on this but not had time to post an update. So here you go. I finished three coats of matte black spray paint. Received some black stainless steel screws from Accu. for the distributors. I also decided to make my own. They turned out quite well. These were striped in hydrochloric acid overnight. Then coated with three applications Sculpt Nouveau Stainless Black for just a couple of minuets. Started some assembly. Stainless Steel Feet. These may be replaced later by aluminium ones with rubber pads. Made some custom O-rings from 2 mm cord, it took more than I was expecting as there are some really long ones in this build. More to follow in next post.
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    PC Design Foundry Sprayed etching primer and a base coat of black. Will need some wet and dry sanding and then another coat of black.
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    PC Design Foundry. Made the doors today. Will start painting tomorrow. Nice clean cuts. Doors will have some extrusions screwed to the rear side to improve stiffness and flatness so the gaps will get better when done.
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    PC Design Foundry Remade the rear chassis to flip the power supply. Installed the rear IO parts.
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    PC Design Foundry Finished machining , tapping and countersinking the distributors. Did another fit check and they are super nice. Next I need to remake the rear chassis part to flip the power supply orientation. Also make the side panels. Make the O rings for the distributors. Then paint all the metal parts.
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    PC Design Foundry Finished cutting the distributors and tapped most of the holes. Have a few more to taps and a lot of countersinks to do. This is the 1/4 inch O Flute Cutter I use for acrylic distributors. Whiteside SA2075 Solid Carbide O-Flute Cuts very clean and fast. Even with an Auto reversing taping chuck it still took 40 minutes as there are so many holes. Did a fit check and it fits perfectly. Also installed the concealed standoffs to hold the front on.
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    PC Design Foundry Bent the top radiator cover and installed it today. Started machining the distributors. This is just the rough cut to remove most of the material. I will do a fine finishing cut tomorrow.
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    PC Design Foundry Bent up two of the radiator covers today and machined two more parts. Cutting the last radiator cover. Cutting the front vent panel. Here is a soda can for scale.
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    PC Design Foundry Got a bit more done. The vents take quite a long time to machine. Top vents. Installed a bunch or PEM standoffs to do some assembly Rear panel is not screwed on yet. Started making two if the three radiator covers. These are a bit harder because they have bends in two directions so I need to machine both sides and get them aligned perfectly. Will Bend them next week.
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    PC Design Foundry Got a few parts of the sheet metal done today. Also installed the Tappex inserts into the corner extrusions and did a quick assembly check. This is a really large case! Length 630.4 mm Width 324 mm Height 603.5 mm not including feet. Router setup as follows 3.5 mm cutter. 0.35 mm depth of cut. 1200 mm/min feed rate. 12000 RPM Did some sanding with the sheet metal still in place on the router to remove burrs. Before any bending. After Bending. Quick fit check. Lots more to do.
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    Here is an update from making the corner extrusions today. PC Design Foundry Setup parts on the router. I have to use an edge finder to set the 0 and also to make sure that the extrusion is exactly parallel with the machine. Machine using a long 4 mm diameter slot cutter. This is quite a long part to be making. I added some support in the centre for the next parts. The ends cuts are through all the cosmetic surfaces of the extrusion. Leaving it supported by a section that can be cut later with a hack saw. Finished cuts. Finished parts will be 626 mm long. Saw of the excess extrusion at the ends. Clean off the coolant and chips with water. Ready to install Tappex inserts. PC Design Foundry
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    I made a custom carbon fibre cover for the exhaust side of some EK Vardar 120s. since it is on the top of my enclosure Unfortunately since they were machined upside down the arms don't line up with the glossy cosmetic side up. My build is here.
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    The good news is you don't need a CNC Turret Milling Machine or Machining Centre to make these (very expensive) You only need a CNC router. I have a Stoney JBEC Professional CNC router. with 1.2 x 0.9 m travel. It cost more than $15K. Included in that cost was a large vacuum table attached to hold the work material down but you don't need that. You could use a smaller one for about $8k I would guess. I have not used a hobby router like a Stepcraft $1-2K they may be fine but just take a long time as you have to remove smaller amounts of material with each cut because they tend to have less powerful motors in the spindle and use smaller diameter cutters. Check these ones. You should make sure that the Z travel is at least twice the amount of the thickest part you want to make. If you are only making a single set of parts there are lots of places that will just contract out to make them for you. They will be about $200-300 per part depending on size. The problem with that is you don't want to make a mistake and have to go back for a second or third set! Check out my builds and equipment here. It has a distributor plate but you would use the same process and materials to make a Reservoir
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    Here is my other custom build from scratch enclosure project. I started this project in June 2017. I wanted an air cooled case that could take a full size ATX motherboard, power supply and full size graphics cards. However with no 3.5" drives, optical drives or water cooling to keep it light weight and quiet. CPU: Intel Core i7 8700K Motherboard: ASUS ROG STRIX Z370-E Cooler: be quiet Dark Rock Pro 3 Memory: 16GB (2x8GB) Corsair DDR4 Vengeance LPX Black, PC4-19200 (2400) M.2 SSD: Samsung 250GB 960 Evo PCIe NVMe GPU: ASUS STRIX GTX980 4G DirCU2 OC PSU: Seasonic PRIME Ultra 850W 80+ Platinum Power Supply Rear Fan: Corsair 120mm ML Series ML120 Front fans 2x Corsair 140mm ML Series ML140 White LED Carbon Fiber Side Panels Graphite Powder Coat
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