Recent content by zrav

So I finally got to making a few more pictures now that I upgraded to a 3080: And recently I also upgraded to a 5800X and added this flow meter:

Around 400€ for the basic box (lasercut aluminium sheets, profiles, nuts & screws, PCI cage). That's not counting the cost of welding and the custom cable parts.

Hi, just saw your post now. I have no problem with providing the 3d SketchUp file and/or the 2d DXF drawings. What is your project?

I completed the new custom SATA power cables and I added a strip of dampening foam to both the disk brackets, which greatly reduced disk noise. The system is now quieter than the old case. Success! Theres more to do in the cable management area, but the project is coming to a close. EDIT...

I will have to make new custom SATA power cables to feed 18+8 disks. Currently waiting for the connectors ordered from cable-sleeving.com to arrive. A preliminary acoustic test showed that I will have to install some of the dampening pad on the disk holder brackets. Without, the spinning noise...

And now with the lower half: I ended up having to attach the fan grills externally as they had a tendency of touching the fan blades. Not quite as pretty, but nice enough.

Time for an update: I had no luck with the different solder. As all the welding shops I called afterwards told me, welding large, thin aluminium sheets is tricky. I ended up having a shop weld it for me. The result is alright. Here I attached the PCI slot bracket and mobo mounting pins...

So as it turns out it is quite difficult to heat up a large chunk of aluminium as it is a good conductor and the case offers plenty of dissipation area. With my equipment I was unable to get the proper temperatures for the 550C brazing solder. The 400C kind of worked after lots of heating, but...

After filing some rough spots, sanding the visible surfaces and drilling counter sinks I could assemble the case parts for the first time. It all fits pretty well so far. Most of the sheets of the upper part of the case will have to be joined via brazing (all except the front), as...

The laser cut parts arrived. I'll be doing some filing and sanding.

I got both brazing and soldering filler material. The tensile strength difference isn't large (325N/mm2 vs 270N/mm2), so if brazing at 550C melting point doesn't work with the equipment I have, I'll do soldering at 400C.

Hi guys, I'm back with another scratch build project. This time it is to replace my first scratch build, the IKEA Expedit compatible server wood case. Working with laser cut aluminium sheets on my Hexplo desktop case, I gained enough new knowledge and ideas to try to improve the original server...

Finally I completed the loop: I'm not too happy about the power cables, might look into sleeved cables. And a shot showing the back cover: Apart from the upcoming GPU upgrade and some smaller things the project is mostly complete and I'm transitioning from my trusty old Ivy Bridge to this...

I keep forgetting to take pictures, sorry about that. Anyway, as you can see I'm in the final stages of installing the system components. The graphics card is a placeholder until I can install my current watercooled 1070GTX, just waiting for some ordered EK fittings to arrive. That card is also...

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