looking good cade good luck

reggiesanchez

looking good cade good luck

Is there a new pic?! I can't see at work :(

Chris, before you booger up your expensive waterblock, why not MAKE a waterblock?  Use Copper sweat caps and 1/2" pipe?  The flow will be considerably faster then any other waterblock.

cade121

Man you have GALLONS of water in there!

nevermind, I saw the pic in the get it colder thread. slowly getting up to speed here. nate is dragging me into the abyss...

Here are the parts and what the block I am working on will look like. The ring in the middle will support the mounting plate. Gonna try to work on it some at work tomorrow if I get a chance. I'm not particularly looking forward to cutting the pipe holes in top for some reason. Once I get that done, assuming I don't butcher the cap and have to start over, I should be able to proceed fairly quickly. I am hoping to test this thing out this coming weekend. Fingers crossed

Got the block built except for painting/finishing and lapping. Did a 4 hour leaktest and bone dry, woot! Now just got to see if the retention bracket I made will match up with motherboard holes and then see how well/badly it performs lolz. It can has flow though. It is making that shower head in my bong spray water just like a real shower, unlike the Apogee XT which just produced a dribble. How well it cools remains to be seen. Hopefully gonna find out in 2 or 3 days, time allowing.

reggiesanchez

looks great cade definitley worthy of its own post.

Thanks! Once I get it completely finished, and assuming it is not an epic fail as far as cooling goes, I may do that.

nateman_doo

im dying to see your mounting solution.  keep the pics coming! 

I know, I know, laughter is the best medicine heh. I left the mounting plate at work, of course, but will hopefully be able to post some pics of the block mounted to the board this weekend.

i agree.. updates?

Sorry, I didn't realize anyone was still interested in this lol. A lot of "stuff" (the kind that hits the fan) has happened the last two or so weeks. I finished the block and mounting plate and installed it (painted it black, see pic). Looked pretty good in my case but didn't cool worth a darn. It was open/bare on the inside.  Soooo, I made another one ( did it at work so no pics  ). This time I extended the two top pipes down into the block all the way to the bottom and soldered them. I also installed two more sections of same size copper pipe in there. All four pieces were flared so they would solder better. I used an air powered cutting disk and cut slices in all the pipes for water flow, and to increase surface area. Man, sounds freakin awesome doesn't it?! Underwater heatpipes! Didnt cool worth a crap. I'm thinking you would need to use some type of tool to cut some grooves inside the block or a drill/press to tap lots of tiny holes to increase surface area that way. I have a dremel but it is buried in a box somewhere and I'm not sure if it can do what I want it to (not that I have the skillz anyway lol). I did some research and found the Martin Liquid Labs spreadsheet and determined that the Danger Den 1366 block has just about the highest flow around. An older design but should suffice for bonging.  Microcenter just happened to have a couple in stock so I bought one over the weekend. I have good flow and temps are about 8-10 degrees above ambient. Not bad but not what I went through all this for .  I suspect my submerged pump is adding heat to the water. Why didn't I think of that before, seems like common sense now. This has been my first foray into water cooling so I have been like a blind man trying to shoot skeet. I broke out my 655 pump again, since I have a higher flowing block, in order to get the pump out of the reservoir, but it wouldn't pump. I must have run it dry at some point and messed it up. Hehe, tragi/comedy par excellence. So, I gotta come up with another outboard pump I reckon. I also, um, did away with my first bong. 3 inch pvc isn't large enough. I went with 4 inch this time.  No paint for bong this time either. Plastic paint flecks off in water and contaminates it. I shortened the pipe the shower head connects to in order to bring it back up near the top of the bong which helped cooling a little. All in all it has been a frustrating but fun project, and I ain't giving up till I get ambient/sub temps. Oh yeah, I almost forgot. Today I ordered that Easy Mister Rudster posted a link to on page five. May not do any good but I am gonna confirm or eliminate it as a possibilty in the quest to get it a little bit colder lol. Sorry for the book, but this is several minor updates in one.
 
 P.S. I don't know how the pics landed in the middle of the message. The curser was blinking below the text. Oh well, pretty much how this whole project has gone heh.

may I suggest drawing in air from the outside?  I am really curious about the BB approach.  Your internal surface area would go through the roof.  Just haven't built a new block to try it out on.  I will probably try it with a GPU block or something.  This way we can tell what the temps are with just a sweat cap, and what the temps are with the BB's. 

In order for the BB's to work, they have to be pure copper, and soldered on the inside.  Then it becomes one with the block.  Let me know if u want a link to some pure copper BB's. 

use the force-err... McMaster-Carr... 
;)

Ok, thanks for the link (and the encouraging words : ) Nate. I will order some of those, they are cheap enough. Also looking at one of eheim inline water pumps.

I have thought of doing this Bong cooler idea, but i think im going to opt with pulling a heater core outta the f 250 at the junk yard down the highway :D

cade121

gnfnr100

I have thought of doing this Bong cooler idea, but i think im going to opt with pulling a heater core outta the f 250 at the junk yard down the highway :D

Lol. Well, the bong is simple and cheap and very effective once you get it working. Most report getting down to ambient temps even a little below ambient.
Nate, my 655 is running, water is gurgling, it just won't take up the water pump it through the system. If I tap it you can hear a knocking sound like something loose in there.

take it apart and maybe you will find a broken impeller?