nateman_doo

Me too. I am still hazy about the screw patterns.


You want the 4 outer screws to be through holes to allow a 6-32 screw?

yep if that is what threads into the sr2 stock backplate. I still havnt had time to check. needs to be same style as what you have in your pictures of your chipset block counter sunk same way.
 

nateman_doo
Now what about those 4 screws that mate the halves? You want those blind for 6-32?

yep, to use that screw that i sent you a link with the dimentions  this is the one that needs to follow those dimentions exactly as i mentioned in that pm. counter bored to the screw specs.

if you still have questions i can draw you a cad representation and send you the pics a bit later. not at that computer atm. lol

hope this answers the questions. best i can do wile drunk

oh, and i will e-mail you the pdf so you can actually read the dimensions, lol 

Don't know, haven't made one yet ;)

What video cards are you using btw?  Whatever you use, wouldn't you like some more copper?  ;)

Tell me about these manifolds.  I was looking at them in your pic trying to figure out what it is.  Looks like a big giant waterblock.

really just decorative, and a diferant twist on plumbing i guess. but now you have me thinking....would be a great placement for a tec sandwich 

If you have that all in series (instead of multiple parallel channels) you are making a tec chilled radiator.  You can put a whole line of them in the back, and dedicate an entire (single rail) power supply to power them up.  I really like the idea.

 
If you ever do that, I really want to see the finished product.

art deco! nice! It's great to see art styles come into play with modern tech.

thanks Rhussain, it is fun designing for sure. trying to keep design style and function hand in hand.
 
and AJ, you are right of course. by the time im done, if i can swing it, the case alone will have set me back cost around $2500, lol. If i was charging a customer it would be a $10k project. hope the SR-6 will fit in there because i will need to keep it around for at least 20 years to get my moneys worthexpensive hobby this is.

i know its hard to see in these cad mock ups but ive placed the two aditional manifolds. the heavy design work is almost done, now just have to fine tune the dimentions and finish up some styling, then i can cut some parts! I need to mount the actual water blocks to get exact manifold position as i want perfectly vertical piping colums inside. naaaate! hehe

If I had to guess:
They would mount from the bottom.  Since this is going to be in the neighborhood of 50 lbs of copper (Guinness book anyone?) I don't think the tec's will freeze that much copper for a while.  Besides you have to cool the hot side of the tec's.  You can rig up an "thermostat" that would interrupt the circuit when the water temp got to a certain point which you would set according to the dew chart in your room.
 
lephron is the guy to ask about tec's.

 
Now that is going to cost you some money !!

it is possable to make it spin, but a really special rotery bearing union is needed as there are a minimum of 4 water connections required. i havnt found any small ones so far that will pass an inlet and an outlet through the same body. I could make it 'look' like its spinning by alternating current through some led's in a circular patern.  http://www.barcoseals.com/type_e-75rs_rsx.htm
 
rough estimate on cost of the tech cooler disk part alone is:
copper:10x10x.5 - 2 of these is $600 I need to shop around a bit on this thats a wierd size.
copper spacers: $100
acrylic: about $50
screws: $10
tecs: $40 each x 13 = $520
so cost of parts is around $1280 give or take $100 on the cooler
power supplies are, what? $200 each for those tec ones. i havnt figured out how many i would need yet. each tec will only run at about 20% of its rated wattage though so probably won't need more than 1 or 2.
 
then the sr-2 manifold wich really is designed to only fit in my case as it serves a lot of other functions in the structure. ( I could design one that basically is the size of a 120.3 radiator though) has about $700 in copper and $50 in acrylic. now that manifold is pretty much only for esthetics. it really just replaces a bunch of hoses. 
 
then we need to run the hot water from the hot side of the disk out of the case and to an external rad box. so as not to screw with the inside case temps. i will probably put this in a window or outside.
 
so like i said this thing is getting out of control, but should be a show stopper when finished.
 
edit:
I think i can cut the .5 copper down to .25 without losing any cooling that would slash the copper price in half or even less than half. might have to do that for weight reasons as well.
 

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it is possable to make it spin, but a really special rotery bearing union is needed as there are a minimum of 4 water connections required. i havnt found any small ones so far that will pass an inlet and an outlet through the same body. I could make it 'look' like its spinning by alternating current through some led's in a circular patern.  http://www.barcoseals.com/type_e-75rs_rsx.htm

rough estimate on cost of the tech cooler disk part alone is:
copper:10x10x.5 - 2 of these is $600 I need to shop around a bit on this thats a wierd size.
copper spacers: $100
acrylic: about $50
screws: $10
tecs: $40 each x 13 = $520
so cost of parts is around $1280 give or take $100 on the cooler
power supplies are, what? $200 each for those tec ones. i havnt figured out how many i would need yet. each tec will only run at about 20% of its rated wattage though so probably won't need more than 1 or 2.

then the sr-2 manifold wich really is designed to only fit in my case as it serves a lot of other functions in the structure. ( I could design one that basically is the size of a 120.3 radiator though) has about $700 in copper and $50 in acrylic. now that manifold is pretty much only for esthetics. it really just replaces a bunch of hoses. 

then we need to run the hot water from the hot side of the disk out of the case and to an external rad box. so as not to screw with the inside case temps. i will probably put this in a window or outside.

so like i said this thing is getting out of control, but should be a show stopper when finished.

edit:
I think i can cut the .5 copper down to .25 without losing any cooling that would slash the copper price in half or even less than half. might have to do that for weight reasons as well.

Thank you for the response, I'll be considering as I'm already showing with whats been ordered from people my build will be exuberant in final price as well. I'll think about doing that it really does appeal to me and my love of copper ;). However I'll hold off on it at least for now till i get other parts of the system going so much to save up for an buy still. lol. Still man seams to be awesome and I may just come back to you and say Hey here's doe! Do for me like Doo did! heheh :) so please keep the plans around for now ;)