Loramentum - A watercooled, wall mounted rig - Fan and lighting upgrade! 27/01/17

[Raboo]

Looks awesome

[Maki Role]

i demand this is finished already Q_Q

That makes two of us

Looks awesome

Cheers!

[Maki Role]

A little update for today.  Since we're nearing the final stretch on this project, I'm going to be doing more of these little changes posts.  So first up on the agenda is the GPU mounting bracket.  Since it's being laid on it's side, the normal mounts won't work, so I decided instead to make my own one from some aluminium.  This is still WIP as I was short on time today.

 

Remove that old bracket asap

 

Template all cut out

 

Eh, it's a bit rough at this stage

 

Looking much better now, still very rough though, that'll change drastically

 

When finished, the bracket will be painted matte black so as to fit with the rest of the build and not draw attention to it, still has a lot of work left.  I also managed to add in the motherboard standoffs, but that's hardly an interesting picture so I left it alone.

[MarQue98]

One extremely good thing about still being at school... I can use a laser cutter for free, it is a good one as well.

Erhg my school doesn't have that. You're talking about highscool?

[micedits]

Erhg my school doesn't have that. You're talking about highscool?

Ummm I don't know the American term. I am 18.

[micedits]

Looking good man, metal work is the worst I do not envy you at this stage  

[MarQue98]

Ummm I don't know the American term. I am 18.

it's the one before university, in the Netherlands we go there from ages of 12-18

[CJPowell27]

I think it might be known as secondary school in Europe.  I'm not sure though

Also Maki Role, this build has come closer to the renders than I've ever seen.

[Maki Role]

Looking good man, metal work is the worst I do not envy you at this stage

 

It wouldn't be nearly so bad if I had access to some handy tools like even a cheap scroll saw (I'd get one but I just don't have any space), heck even just having a workbench of any sort would be nice.

 

I think it might be known as secondary school in Europe.  I'm not sure though

Also Maki Role, this build has come closer to the renders than I've ever seen.

 

Haha, I'm hoping I can get the photos just right on the final shoot in order to confuse people to the max.  I think a lot of the similarity is down to how I made sure that the render materials were as accurate as possible.

 

UPDATE!

 

Managed to finish up the GPU mounting bracket today, now both the motherboard and the graphics card can be attached to the main chassis!

 

Finished shaping things up

 

I don't have a workbench, nor a vise, so I whipped up this... thing to help do the bending.

 

After the initial sanding, looking much better already

 

Forgot to taking a priming photo, so here it is finished.  The matte paint fits perfectly with the black acrylic.

 

 

Fits the graphics card quite nicely.

 

 

[MarQue98]

that just make my jaw drop

[Worth]

Well done

[リチャード]

*post*

 

Seeing how good custom made stuff looks, I always wish I was more handy...

 

Oh man... nice work!

[alby800]

oooo, fancy

[Maki Role]

that just make my jaw drop

Well done

  

Seeing how good custom made stuff looks, I always wish I was more handy...

 

Oh man... nice work!

oooo, fancy

Thanks everybody! Feels good to get some proper progress in, I'll be ordering most of the flight case parts tomorrow hopefully.

[Roscoe]

Fantastic, keep up the amazing work!

[sterreprop]

That's amazing!

[rhyseyness]

Stunning. Keep up the good work

[darkspeedy26]

@Maki Role how many layers of paint does the mounting bracket have?

[Maki Role]

That's amazing!

  

Stunning. Keep up the good work

  

Cheers!

@Maki Role how many layers of paint does the mounting bracket have?

Two layers of primer, each sanded to 800 grit. Followed by 3 layers of matte black enamel paint with light 1200 grit sands in between each coat.

[Asche]

That's damn good

[Ralphington]

nice, that black looks soo perfect like it wasn't silver underneath. really good.

[Skander1345]

This is honestly the best build log I stumbled upon so far. Simple, elegant and really stands out.

Would love to see it all finished and classy Subbed.

[hearthofsin]

subbed looks awesome both for a traveling computer but also for a sick wall mounted one  

updates bro keep em coming

[Maki Role]

nice, that black looks soo perfect like it wasn't silver underneath. really good.

 

Thanks, although I attribute much of that success to the paint.  I've been consistently surprised and impressed by the paint from Halfords, it just sprays really smoothly, doesn't orange peel and dries quickly, not to mention it's nice and durable too when fully cured.  I much prefer it to many of the other brands I've tried in the past, and some of those were specialty artist paints for use with airbrushes.

 

 

This is honestly the best build log I stumbled upon so far. Simple, elegant and really stands out.

Would love to see it all finished and classy Subbed.

 

High praise indeed, I hope the rest of the log can live up to it!

 

 

subbed looks awesome both for a traveling computer but also for a sick wall mounted one  

updates bro keep em coming

 

Thanks man, let's have another update shall we?

 

Update

 

Small one for today, I received all the parts for the flight case, along with a better riser cable.  This thing is genuinely quite beautiful, and comes fully shielded to boot, so no dodgy foil wrapping is necessary.  Since a roll is pretty boring and you've all seen it before, I used the diNoc as the background this time, picked up a pretty large piece of it for the case protection.

 

This one is exceedingly long...

 

[Nathan]

Small one for today, I received all the parts for the flight case, along with a better riser cable.  This thing is genuinely quite beautiful, and comes fully shielded to boot, so no dodgy foil wrapping is necessary.  Since a roll is pretty boring and you've all seen it before, I used the diNoc as the background this time, picked up a pretty large piece of it for the case protection.

 

 

Is the hardware for flight cases stupidly expensive as i'd expect? or is it semi-reasonable?