Project: Threshold

[Sneaky]

O.K., because I made a mistake and wasn't paying attention, I had Ben @ MM order me an opaque neon yellow powder. Being a custom color order, I am forced to swallow the $150 for the cost of the powder, so I took it upon myself to order the exact color that I want from an outside distributor:

Translucent Candy Psycho Lime from Caswell Plating... this will go over the Silver Vein base coat

 

[Sneaky]

Went out on my front porch to go have a cigarette, and found two packages sitting on the front porch. Thanks for knocking USPS!


got my order from Performance-PC's today for two Alphacool AGB2 G1" threaded reservoir caps for the big hunk of copper... sadly, it was the cheapest place that sold them even with their price gouging on shipping... so I said hell with it and ordered 2 of them just in case

Then I also got my molex pins from Action-Electronics.com (cheapest molex pins on the net)

100 Male 4-pin molex pins:

100 Female 4-pin molex pins:

150 Female 3-pin molex pins:

75 Female Minifit (ATX/EPS/PCI-E) molex pins:

50 Female KK (USB/Mobo Header) molex pins:

 

[Sneaky]

Here comes the step-by-step goodies that everyone enjoys most:

here's how I'm sleeving the wires to one of my fans in the tubing:


here we have the existing 3-pin fan cable sleeved in cloth sleeving from the factory

remove the molex connector:

the pins have got to go... scissors

measure and cut a length of black silicone tubing

lick the wires... yes, I said lick the wires - it gets them wet so that they slide into the tubing - this makes it A LOT easier

shove the wet wires into the tubing

and out they come

 

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strip the wires about 3/8"

place them into the molex pins & crimp with a small needle nose pliers

half crimped

fully crimped

cut two 1" pieces of black heatshrink (yes, I have alot of heatshrink...)

slide the heatshrink onto the wires

replace the molex connector and slide the heatshrink tubing into place

 

[Sneaky]

bust out the 'ole zippo to provide the heat (I prefer a lighter to a heatgun... gives it a better shrink IMO)

and here you have a tubing-sleeved fan

 

[Sneaky]

fans... tubing.... fans... tubing

those are Arctic Cooling AF12012 120mmx25mm fans - 56.4CFM @ 24.5 dBA, liquid dynamic bearing technology... my favorite fans ever!

 

[Sneaky]

sleeving the 3-pin extenders is basically the same process:

 

[Sneaky]

practice makes perfect...

 

[Jolly-Swagman]

Tube Sleeving turned out great, Sneaky

 

[Sneaky]

started and finished a big dumbass undertaking today

the entire skulltrail system got taken down, cube disassembled, re-assembled in a PC-75B with air cooling

LOL... radiator in a house with 4 cats and no fan filter = FAIL

 

[Sneaky]

Betchya won't even THINK about doing THIS with compression fittings...

and finished...

 

[Sneaky]

got the rest of my fans sleeved - 13 in total

and got my Laing D5 sleeved:

 

[JustDepends]

Thats so cool... a lot of work lol. Is the tubing that brown in real life?

 

[Sneaky]

no, it's a glossy black... the flash makes it look like a dark brown for some reason

 

[CompuTamer]

Why'd you go with air cooling? Something happen with watercooling placement?

 

[Sneaky]

I'm prepping everything for the big move to the custom Extended U2-UFO case that will be here in 2-4 weeks, and also pulling it apart so that I can sleeve the rest of the fans in silicone tubing

 

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I have a couple of the Sunbeam MFPP Multi Fan Power Ports, and I'm not particularly fond of the bright blue LED's that it has... so I took it apart and removed them:

 

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front panel connectors:

 

[Sneaky]

made a custom cable to power one of my Sunbeam MFPP's

 

[Sneaky]

The BEAST has arrived - Zippy/Emacs PSL-6C00V 1200w Active-PFC 1% line regulation server power supply.

Yes, those are two-foot long cables... you can't get a better power supply for in a massive U2-UFO or Ascension case