Bart's big hard tube rebuild (will probably be pic heavy)

[Hooded]

Happy New Year Bart

That's too funny having your flowmeter in backwards.
When bending 3D tubes are you measuring from the tangents? If not you should, it's really the only way to measure accurately.

Rig is looking great. Nice work.

[Bartacus]

Hooded, I really have no idea HOW to properly measure. That's the main problem. I'm guessing most of the time, based on loose measurements, and trimming to fit. I'm also finding 16mm tube has a wide bending radius. I'm probably doing it all wrong, but it seems hard to make a tight turn with 16mm tube.

[Necrodead]

System looks great Bartman, loving the colour and the cables!

I could never really get measuring right with regard to tubes either, fittings are so much easier to use! But damn the expense!

[DazMode]

Lol about flow meter.
I also usually struggle with multibends, so typically limit myself to a single bend in my design.

[Bartacus]

I don't think I mentioned the lighting in this thing yet. My lighting setup is excessive, but I was toying around with different things, using different lights in combination, etc. So here's how it's set up.

Up in behind the motherboard side radiator, there are 2 light strips, one 12" Darkside LED strip (white), and one Aquacomputer RGB strip:


At the back, there are 2 Darkside 6" LED strips, one white and one UV:


The RGB controller is an Aquacomputer Farbwerk, buried under a mess of cables below:


And one 12" Darkside UV LED strip near the pumps / res:


So basically, there are 3 "groups" of lights.

Group 1 - ghetto light panel, 12" RGB strip behind the top radiator - both controlled by the Farbwerk
Group 2 - 6" white strip at rear, 12" white strip on case roof behind the top radiator - controlled via channels 3 and 4 on the fan controller
Group 3 - 6" UV strip at rear, 12" UV strip near pumps - controlled via channels 5 and 6 on the fan controller

I do love this old fan controller:


And the flow meter:


Not that I need all that info, but knowledge never hurts. Gotta get me some different colored LCD screens for my temp sensors though. That red has to go.

[MemBusX]

Beauty

[bungwirez]

great stuff Bart. love the glow.

you're right about multi bends. trim to fit. I like to get it within say 10 to 5mm on length,
then take the rest back a bit at a time with my palm sander.

[guilly08]

great stuff Bart. love the glow.

you're right about multi bends. trim to fit. I like to get it within say 10 to 5mm on length,
then take the rest back a bit at a time with my palm sander.

Good idea with the palm sander... Never thought of that... I used a small dremmel but it was a little too aggressive sometimes....

[Bartacus]

Thanks dudes! Palm sander eh? Would that work with PETG though Bungz? I actually tried a Dremel too, but PETG is so damn easy to melt since it's much softer than acrylic.

[EZ's PC's]

Really great work and log Bart. Have enjoyed following this project

[DazMode]

With so many uv, you can sanitize your room!

[Bartacus]

Hey, there's only 18" of UV in this one. I've done far worse. Right now I'm only running a single Aquacomputer RGB strip, and the light panel. The UV / white lights are off (fan controlled). Thanks dudes!

[bungwirez]

I've never had PETG in my hand... so I couldn't tell you... but for sure, acrylic... makes the rimmer tool obsolete.

and you know how much I love that rimmer.