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An AC condensor?
I'm planning on making a custom bezel out of fibreglass for my case, and want to incorporate a rad for a WC setup in the front, with shrouded fans. i want it to be the height of 3 92mm fans, and should work pretty good i would think.
To save money (im a poor child, and dont have all that much money) I'd like to make the rad out of a cut down AC condensor i have. i have 6 full size wall mount type ones to play with, and one from a drinking fountain too.
the one from the drinking fountain is 30 cm by 20 cm. it has like 1/4 inch tubing and i would want to split the hose going in and run like 2 parallel passes. would this be too much of a strain on flow? this is going ot be my first dabble in WCing and im not too sure how well it will do. There will be a bit of cuttin down to do, i figure i should be able to heat the copper endpipes, pull off the loop pieces, heat the fins to break their solder loose, pull them off till i get the size needed, cut the pipes down, and sweat the loop pieces back on. then for the length, ill hopefully be able to fit it without problems, but if i have to cut it down i can use tin snips or similar to cut the fins and that last piece of tubing or 2 will fall right off... of course after takin off the pipes in the end....
one concern.. would there need to be something in place to keep the fins from coming unevenly spaced from too many getting hot at once? could this be prevented by stickin lil washers between the fins and holdin them that way.
i almost forgot to mention the other condensors, but they appear to be aluminum tubing and id liek to stay away form them. they're huge, definately need cut down. but the advantage of one of these, they are 3/8 inch tubing. the fins are a little more widely spaced on them. I jsut dont want to have to use a bunch of anti-corrosion stuff to mak it agree with a copper block.
this is probably a different discussion in itself.... but couldnt you create a completely closed loop, as in no res or T lines? couldnt you throw everything in a tub of the water and run it all underwater with the loop opened, then stop and start it to get every last bubble out, then close it up and then you have a completely closed loop. would submerging the block and stuff be bad for it, as in corrosion on the outside? it would be dried like imediately after bein taken out and all, then the usual leak testing. if this could be done i would prefer that, as containing it all in my case seems liek it will be a bit of a task. (5 3 1/2 drives, 3 5 1/4s fillin most of the bays, and then the mobo and all)
so back to the main question... would either of these make a decently working rad for me to use? im looking for decent cooling, nothing thats insanely awesome or anything, with as little cost as possible (free + work in this case)
I'm planning on making a custom bezel out of fibreglass for my case, and want to incorporate a rad for a WC setup in the front, with shrouded fans. i want it to be the height of 3 92mm fans, and should work pretty good i would think.
To save money (im a poor child, and dont have all that much money) I'd like to make the rad out of a cut down AC condensor i have. i have 6 full size wall mount type ones to play with, and one from a drinking fountain too.
the one from the drinking fountain is 30 cm by 20 cm. it has like 1/4 inch tubing and i would want to split the hose going in and run like 2 parallel passes. would this be too much of a strain on flow? this is going ot be my first dabble in WCing and im not too sure how well it will do. There will be a bit of cuttin down to do, i figure i should be able to heat the copper endpipes, pull off the loop pieces, heat the fins to break their solder loose, pull them off till i get the size needed, cut the pipes down, and sweat the loop pieces back on. then for the length, ill hopefully be able to fit it without problems, but if i have to cut it down i can use tin snips or similar to cut the fins and that last piece of tubing or 2 will fall right off... of course after takin off the pipes in the end....
one concern.. would there need to be something in place to keep the fins from coming unevenly spaced from too many getting hot at once? could this be prevented by stickin lil washers between the fins and holdin them that way.
i almost forgot to mention the other condensors, but they appear to be aluminum tubing and id liek to stay away form them. they're huge, definately need cut down. but the advantage of one of these, they are 3/8 inch tubing. the fins are a little more widely spaced on them. I jsut dont want to have to use a bunch of anti-corrosion stuff to mak it agree with a copper block.
this is probably a different discussion in itself.... but couldnt you create a completely closed loop, as in no res or T lines? couldnt you throw everything in a tub of the water and run it all underwater with the loop opened, then stop and start it to get every last bubble out, then close it up and then you have a completely closed loop. would submerging the block and stuff be bad for it, as in corrosion on the outside? it would be dried like imediately after bein taken out and all, then the usual leak testing. if this could be done i would prefer that, as containing it all in my case seems liek it will be a bit of a task. (5 3 1/2 drives, 3 5 1/4s fillin most of the bays, and then the mobo and all)
so back to the main question... would either of these make a decently working rad for me to use? im looking for decent cooling, nothing thats insanely awesome or anything, with as little cost as possible (free + work in this case)