Construction of my airtrap

[Turbokeu]

Since I received a lot of questions about my airtrap and anyway that I had to build one for my friend Carrie from the UK (Carrie, this is your airtrap!), here are some pics of the building.

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Needed parts:
- 50/44mm plexi tube (10cm).
- Two PVC 50mm end caps with screwable lid.
- one 20mm PVC T-part.
- Two male 1/2" adaptors to 15mm female.
- A piece of 15mm copper tube.




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sawing of the 50mm connector in 2 equal parts of 20mm.



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End cap sawed till the threads.(left = original)



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Idem with lid.



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Glued to the 50mm connector.



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Sawing of the 50mm plexi at 10cm.



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The parts for the "reservoir".



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trying if it fits...



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Drilling a beginhole for the 20mm T-part.



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End caps glued to 50mm connector with "Hard-PVC glue".



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Glueing of T-part to 50mm end cap.



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Other side...



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Glueing of the two end caps to 50mm Plexi.



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15mm coppertube and tube cutter..



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Necessary for hardsoldering:
- Gasweller.
- Flux (for de-oxidating).
- Hardsolder.



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Cleaning of the 15mm copper tube with steelwool.



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Preparing the 15mm copper tube and 1/2" to 15mm adaptor.



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Hardsoldered 15mm copper tube to 1/2" adaptor.



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After filing and lapping with steelwool.



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Thee airtrap mounted together with the holders. The two 1/2 adaptors are glued and screwed with Rectavit "Rectafix" glue to the 20mm T-part). This glue remains elastic after drying.



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The glues. (I didn't use the 2-component epoxyglue in this application).



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The finished product!...


PS: Before glueing and soldering all parts have to be filed, scrubbed and "rugged" with fine sandpaper and degreased with methanol or another degreaser.

This airtrap took me about one hour to make...


CD:)

[TOMATOMAN]

Thanx u rule!! My firts step to water collign will be making this :}

[MeJa]

you should get into the custom build anything business ;)
Is there anything you havent done or dont know how to do, as far as modding :p

[mEKbOY]

Another great job . Your skill and ideas are superb. You should consider doing some writing for a site as im sure your tips can help a lot of watercoolers out there.:)

[xCarne_Asada]

i get from the name its purpose, but how does an airtrap work?

[Crazy Jayhawk]

Originally posted by xCarne_Asada
i get from the name its purpose, but how does an airtrap work? Air is lighter than water. When the water comes up through the vertical tube, the water will go out the side fitting (too heavy to go up) but the air will go up into the tube instead.

[Lord_of_Decay]

Beautiful work.:D

Post is worth a sticky IMO.

[Gnufsh]

Awesome!

[Gnufsh]

Would make great sticky too...

[GruntmaN]

Man you need to be mass producing them with clear endcaps! You could make some money on those!!! This is for sure a sticky!

[bongo]

I Definetly!!! think this is sticky material!!

BTW i saw your post Turbokeu awhile ago on the Proocooling.com Forums...

Well to make a long story short , I went out to the hardware stores and petshops (plexitube) and made my own.
Really inspireing work.... :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:
Post my pics soon....hope they measure up to Turbokeu's.

[Turbokeu]

Sorry, changed the location of the pictures and was not allowed to modify the thread on this forum.... (too much images...)
CD:(

[masitti]

I am not sure what you guys are seeing in red X's. I can make a red x too: my pretty x.

:confused:

j/k, I can't wait to see the images! By the sounds of it, we may have another sticky. ;)

[Turbokeu]

Thanks mate, you"re a great help to me...:mad:

[masitti]

You can edit your post, then change the location; or is it your webhost?

BTW, I was just kiddin man... I thought you could take a joke. :)

[Turbokeu]

Originally posted by msmasitti
You can edit your post, then change the location; or is it your webhost?

BTW, I was just kiddin man... I thought you could take a joke. :)

No offense...:D

Yes I can edit my thread but I can't save it because it contains too much images (I suppose a time ago we were allowed to put more images in a thread)

You can still see the pics on folowing forums:
http://forums.procooling.com/vbb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=514
and
http://www.icronticforums.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=99418#post99418

Sorry :(
CD