Goddamn I should write an article on how NOT to put a watercooling setup together. But after more than a month and assloads of trips to the hardware store. I should finally be ready to test my setup tomorrow. Sure my radiator is in a wooden box that looks like a special ed shop class project... Sure the setup is entirely immobile (Big wooden box for rad with a seperate AT power supply to drive the fans). Sure The radiator is only temporary until my copper/brass one arrives (this is copper/brass/alluminium), sure I still have to mount my fill and bleed lines, install the sheet metal shroud, and finish weatherstripping the large gaps in the box, sure I spent about 200$ total on a setup that SHOULD have been under 110$ (40$ in hardware I didn't need, 15$ in gas I shouldnt have used, 15$ on a leaky radiater, another 15$ on a temporary radiator, 5$ on snacks to eat while I waited in my car at my buddies house for him to get home so I could use his skill saw because he had to work late and I didn't think to call and make sure he was there before I drove 30 minutes right after I had learnt I had just lost 180$. I could have saved another 20-25$ but I bought a 1300lph pump just in case my 500lph wasn't enough. (It should have been plenty, it has more head than the 1300lph does).
The 200$ is a guess, and believe me its a low end guess, it could be over 250$ after I add up all my hardware store reciepts, ebay purchases, online purchases, and forums purchases.
Here's what I needed to buy
20$ worth of adaptors/tubing on forums
25$ for heater core
10$ for wood
30$ for waterblock
00$ for a pump I owned
00$ for the propane torch I could have borrowed
10$ for the misc hardware to assemble my box unit
00$ for the fans and power supply I owned
10$ for the adaptors I had to buy at hardware stores
5$ for watter wetter
1$ for distilled water
111$ total is what it SHOULD have cost me.
20$ worth of adaptors/tubing on forums
10$ worth of clamps that are too damn small and splicers that I can't use off ebay.
12$ for a leaky rad off ebay
3$ for leakstopper that doesnt work
25$ for heater core
15$ for heater core (temp)
22$ for pump (unnecessary)
30$ for waterblock
10$ for wood
13$ for the torch I bought
9$ for water wetter
2$ for distilled water (They call it "Mineral free" instead and shape the bottle different and sell it at pep boys for 2 times as much)
As for the hardware store purchases, I'd guess in the 50-75$ range total, but once I finish and dig up all the reciepts we will see.
On the plus side. I will have an extra radiator, and pump and some spare tubing and clamps in case I ever want to set up a low end secondary system or a isolated Video cooling system. I also have a higher flowrate pump and A really really funny radiator box. Maybe once my new radiator gets here I will remake the box Using a harder wood than pine, with a table saw (we had one but the blade was so ****ty it just burnt up the wood), and with the right size screws (rather than resorting to nails cause I was too lazy to go back to the hardware store), and a planer and power sander. And maybe this new box will have a compartment for my power supply in it, and a place for the pump, and I'll wire the pump into the power supply so I dont need two extra power outlets, and I'll use an actual holesaw instead of a 1/4" drill bit and alot of drilling to make the fan holes, and a jigsaw instead of a 1/4" drillbit and alot of drilling to make the intake hole. And maybe pigs will fly out of my bum and start a new civilization that eventually wipes out mankind and creates a eutopia of Earth.
The 200$ is a guess, and believe me its a low end guess, it could be over 250$ after I add up all my hardware store reciepts, ebay purchases, online purchases, and forums purchases.
Here's what I needed to buy
20$ worth of adaptors/tubing on forums
25$ for heater core
10$ for wood
30$ for waterblock
00$ for a pump I owned
00$ for the propane torch I could have borrowed
10$ for the misc hardware to assemble my box unit
00$ for the fans and power supply I owned
10$ for the adaptors I had to buy at hardware stores
5$ for watter wetter
1$ for distilled water
111$ total is what it SHOULD have cost me.
20$ worth of adaptors/tubing on forums
10$ worth of clamps that are too damn small and splicers that I can't use off ebay.
12$ for a leaky rad off ebay
3$ for leakstopper that doesnt work
25$ for heater core
15$ for heater core (temp)
22$ for pump (unnecessary)
30$ for waterblock
10$ for wood
13$ for the torch I bought
9$ for water wetter
2$ for distilled water (They call it "Mineral free" instead and shape the bottle different and sell it at pep boys for 2 times as much)
As for the hardware store purchases, I'd guess in the 50-75$ range total, but once I finish and dig up all the reciepts we will see.
On the plus side. I will have an extra radiator, and pump and some spare tubing and clamps in case I ever want to set up a low end secondary system or a isolated Video cooling system. I also have a higher flowrate pump and A really really funny radiator box. Maybe once my new radiator gets here I will remake the box Using a harder wood than pine, with a table saw (we had one but the blade was so ****ty it just burnt up the wood), and with the right size screws (rather than resorting to nails cause I was too lazy to go back to the hardware store), and a planer and power sander. And maybe this new box will have a compartment for my power supply in it, and a place for the pump, and I'll wire the pump into the power supply so I dont need two extra power outlets, and I'll use an actual holesaw instead of a 1/4" drill bit and alot of drilling to make the fan holes, and a jigsaw instead of a 1/4" drillbit and alot of drilling to make the intake hole. And maybe pigs will fly out of my bum and start a new civilization that eventually wipes out mankind and creates a eutopia of Earth.
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