TribalOverkill's LiquiD EvolutioN

[tribaloverkill]

ANOTHER UPDATE!!! WHAMM! IN YO FACE UPDATE!!! Ok,.. enough of that,...

Dec-06-2006

My two new coils Two strips,... both 1/4" wide.


Neked.


Here I am clamping the end of the strips to the pipe at an angle for wrapping. The angle in th epic is a bit much. It's actaully less then whats shown.


Wrapped, coiled.


Sanding the coil down so it smooth. This way to wont touch the inside the of the reservoir.


Heres after polishing. End the edges are polished. One problem though,... totally slipped my mind,... I scratched the inside of the coil Not a problem though. I'll just figure out a way to buff the inside. Maybe a small buffing wheel on an extention. Worst case,... I would have to make them again.


Inside the reservoir. I plan to stech out he coild a bit to give more of a coil look once spinning.


Cool!


Two.


I got my two new tubes in today. I got two 2.5"OD's with 1/8" walls Very nice tubes.

[tribaloverkill]

Ok,... I'm back! I had my boy blue-fusion inform you guyz that I was having some pc trouble. I had something on my machine that was causing fatal exceptions every 2 - 3min. I have everything pretty much back and running. I do have an update for you guyz. But first,... I have plans for this weekend to work on this thing day and night. I am even goign to talk to my boss about getting monday and tuesday off too. I'll work day and night then too. I should have it done by the end of that stretch. To the UPDATE!!!!

Dec-08-2005

So,... where was I? Oh yea,... scratched the inside of my coil thingies. I needed a way to buff the inside scratches out. First,... I put the coils back together and taped them so that wouldnt separate.


I got the smallest buffing wheel I could find and a nice long bolt with two big washers and matching nuts. LOL. I put them all together and got this. I spun the buffing wheel and used a razor to cut down the buffing wheel to size. WARNING: THAT IS BLOOD YOU SEE.


I ran out of polishing compound so I decided to use the blood of a common sea sponge. Where and how did I get the blood of a common see sponge????


Yeeeeeeeeea,.....


Whaaaa tha?!?!?!?


Hmmmmmm,....



DAAAAYUM!


So yea First,... you stick it inside, just like that, yea :shock: . Depending on how tight it is inside determines how fast you can go :shock: . To tight and to fast will cause everything to heat up :shock: !!! Damn,... *I'm laughing, hold on.*


When done,... perfection. Still have to clean it off a bit. Still has some polishing compound on it.


Heres what I have planned for the coil arm things. This is an arm. There will be like 3 - 4 up top and 3 - 4 below.


Here I am gluing a practice one to test for strength. You dont need to vise it,... I dont know why I did.


CRAZING!!! I think it has to do with something. LOL. Made no sence. I think its because the acrylic is thin. I dont know. The rod is 1/4" though. I didnt have any problems with crazing with the other reservoir and it was 1/4". I think it has something to do with the agent strength or speed of curing, thickness of material, and temperature. I have to play around with it. Anyways,... I just just checked it now after it sat over night like that,... strong as hell! AMAZING!! I thought it would snap right off. I could snap it off. Great! It's going to look very clean.


Here are some pics I took of the UV blue acrylic I have. I am cutting up a 12" x 12" sheet for blue-fusion, another modder here. This is some cool stuff!!! I am definitely using this for my next computer



Almost clear!!!


A bit of UV light and WHAM! BLUE BABY!!! So damn cool. Almost my favorite UV color now


So,... yea. Can't wait for the weekend I want to thank Gruntman from GruntvillE.com for hosting all my images even though some of them don't really have anything to do with modding, LOL. THANKS GMAN!

[tribaloverkill]

Ok,... I worked on the reservoir for several hours yesterday all the way up to 1am. I will be working on it all night tonight. Here are pics from yesterday.

Dec-11-2005

Stretching the coil out.


Theres a 1/2" gap.


I have to make little arm thingies. Eight of them. Remember how I use to tape large pieces of acrylic together to make two identical pieces for say windows. Well,... this time I am going to use super glue. These pieces are two small for tape. So super glue will be fine. Actually,... super glue is better because the pieces actually touch where there is a tiny gap with tape. This way is more accurate.


Glued.


Trimmed down for messuring.


Done. It was hard with eight,... so next time I thinkI will only do say 4 at a time. It kept wanting to tip. It has to be flat on the table while sanding.


How cool is thiS!!! Polished!!!


Kind of hard getting them apart but they are untouched by the glue. i basically glue the tape coverings together while the tape held the pieces together.


THIS WAS A PAIN!!! I hated every moment of it. I thought I could come up with some sort of mathematical method of doing it but because the coil is not perfect,... I couldnt. So I had to glue these things on one bye one checking them and then checking them again before gluing. PAIN! But cool looking. Looks like a missle or something. I messed up some places with teh glue. I use a syringe for gluing. i dont use the plunger I just tilt it and it come pooring out. If I could more easily regulate how much comes out it would be that much better.


So I sanded it clean and then,...


Flame polished it. I had to be mad careful,... because this thing will lose its shap very easy!!! The last thing I want is for the shaft to get bent by even a little! This took ahile to do just because of that.


All done


That looks so much better then the first All my remakes come out looking better Well,... I am about to close this thing up BUT before I do that I am goign to test this thing out first. I just want to make sure it spins ok with the new bottom block. I dont want to glue this thing together just to find out its crap. So,.. yea. I haveto go out to the store. I burnt my damn pizza working on this thing. I wonder how much food will be lost because of my work? Hmmm,... I dont know. Goign to get some pizza. Oh,... I have MSN and AIM running now,... I use tribaloverkill for both. If I do not answer,... well, that measn I cant But I will try and get a hold of you PEACE!

[tribaloverkill]

It works!!! No bubbless in the loop!!! Once all the bubbles are trapped the bubblle chamber,... they stay there!!! HOT! I also have bad news There was alot of crazing The res is leaking because of it. Let me show you the pics and the videos first and then when can talk about our options on how to fix it. Pics,...

Dec-12-2005

Heres everything smooth and sanded.


Rounded edges.


Polished.


Both of them.


This is full speed. 1/2" barbs just the pump and the reservoir. Camera is still crappy.
http://www.tribaloverkill.com/studio...05_movie_0.wmv

Here I pulsed the spin so it was slower. I didnt start and stops too so you could have atleast a taste of how cool it is. There are no bubbles cycling though the loop either!! You can see the bubble in the first video just sitting there while the rest of the reservoir is spinning like crazy!!
http://www.tribaloverkill.com/studio...05_movie_1.wmv

Ok,... so bubble chamber is a success. The coil is a success. Wht sucks is that the reservoir body and the bubble chamber ring had crazed. I was goign to ask you what route I should take,... just glue it and move on or,... well,... what I am going to do is cut the top and middle, and bottom pieces away from the body and bubble rings. I will sand down those pieces to remove the remaining material from the body. I'll polish those pieces down and get them ready for a second chance. I will make a new body and bubble ring. This time I will keep those two pieces from heating up. I might even anneal them but that takes hours. So,... this is important. Crazing is caused by internal stress. Internal stress is caused by heat. When you glue,... the glue tears the molecules apart because they are or have been weakened. You fix this you can anneal it. To anneal you cook the acrylic in the oven at 180 degree, about. I would really go any higher. It's about one hour for every milimeter of thickness. 1/8" is 3 milimeters so that would be 3 hours of cook time. Its the same for cooling. You want to cool it slowly. Remember the pic where I had the reservoir bodu on the tool box? I said I was heatsinking it to cool it fast? Well,.. it was the fact that I let is heat up that much and then ontop of it I cooled it down quick. I didnt do that with teh first reservoir body. Thats why there was no crazing,.. only crazing was from the alcohol. So dont heat your acrylic up! keep it cool. And if it does let it cool down slowly. Oh,... and if you cook it in the oven,... keep the door open. acrylci outgases when heated. You dont want your oven to explode I read about this online by searching for I believe,... weld-on crazing.

[tribaloverkill]

Ok,... here's my update for the 13th.

Dec-13-2005

Heres the crazing I was telling you about,...



Here a practice run with the new glue,... no crazing.


Going to be using thumbs for now on Looks better this way and saves on bandwidth.

[tribaloverkill]

Ok here's the reservoir closed and ready for shields,...

Dec-14-2005

Quick pic of the shop at it's worst,...


New bubble disc. 1/8" thick. The center rod passes through this disc. It will be ground down and then fused to the disc. Then sanded and polished.


Finished,.. well, not finished but ready for shields. Crazing was MINIMAL this time. Hardly any. I still want to cal IPS(weld-on manufacturer) and ask them about shelf life and such. I wan tot but more of this stuff because the date under both of the can are dated 2002?!?!? So,... yea. ! year shelf life??? Geeez.


Going to start on brackets and shields tomorrow. Have to make some calls too. I was suppose to do that today but I was too tired from work and gym It's all good though.

[tribaloverkill]

Bracket mock-ups. YeeeAAA.

Dec-18-2005

Here's the mock-up. You understand how this is going to work? It's not exact but it should give you the idea of how it's going to be. It an auto-tensioning bracket. Remeber the pump clamps I made that clamped to the back the the pumps to keep them attached the the tower? Well,.. I was going to do that with the bolt in the back but that was to sloppy for this. To much. I needed something that would tension and hold the reservoir just by mounting it. This is what I came up with.


When its not bolted down,... it's slides over very easily.


When it's bolted down it pulls the out band towards the case pull the reservoir into that cetner thingy. The center thing will have longer arms thingies and will be padded just like the inside of the band.


Reservoir mounted. Barbs facing out and away from teh case for mounting inside the case.


Barbs facing towards the case for mounting it outside the case.


The shields will mount to this these brackets. What is not shown here are the tabs that I make by folding the aluminum. There will be about 8 of them. The shields will be mounted to those. Any questions class? Class dismissed. Gawd I love the look of the thumbs!!! It's crazy cool looking!!! You know,... it would be great if you guyz used thumbs too It would speed up the site and makes it faster for anyone. You don't have to but it would be nice. The site owners would love it.

[tribaloverkill]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Blackcrown

Where the hell is Spongebob?

I know some of your projects. Why are you suddenly posting all your workings here? I'm affraid that there will some problems with the fact that it's in English (not your fault ofcourse) which isn't really appreciated much here. But the main crew might make a exception in your case, we'll see.

I haven't really had much time for sponge bob. But I will get get to torturing him once I do. That will be very soon Right now I'm just trying to get as much work done as possible. You really thing they will delete all my logs because it's in english? Wow. Hope not I started posting here because I saw this forum in the list of forums at AC Ryan site, the great worklog contest. I thought this site looked cool even though I cant read any of it There's alot of great work being being here too.

[Stievius]

Damn dude, that's some nice machinery you've got there. Pretty hard to imitate your work with a simple drill and a saw

[tribaloverkill]

Shield Mockups. They are not complete or even accurate. Just an idea of what they will look like.

Dec-19-2005

A dog trampling my work


Lights off,... LEDs on.


Lights on,... LEDs on.


Now as I said they not not exact nor accurate. The shields will be held up about a 1/4" off the reservoir so there will be planty of room for the hoses to fit over the barbs. I might add some design and I might take some away. We'll have to see what happens. Does anyone have an idea of what to call this thing?Shield Mockups. They are not complete or even accurate. Just an idea of what they will look like.

Dec-19-2005

A dog trampling my work


Lights off,... LEDs on.


Lights on,... LEDs on.


Now as I said they not not exact nor accurate. The shields will be held up about a 1/4" off the reservoir so there will be planty of room for the hoses to fit over the barbs. I might add some design and I might take some away. We'll have to see what happens. Does anyone have an idea of what to call this thing?

[tribaloverkill]

New shield mockups. I only made one side because I ain't waisting time on the mockups. Rather get started on the real deal. I LIKE EM! Yea. The new desidn is kindof like that last except I removed alot more material so you guyz can see more of the coil action. I love it. To the pics,...

Dec-22-2005

In the dark.


Lights on.


I love the under grill or grooves especially with the little support bar in the middle of the grooves. It's supporting the longer grooves. Alos,... I added little boxes here and the too. Very cool.


Let me know what you think!!! I'm goign to get started on the real ones now. I plan on using my new 30" bending brake for these shields. Never used it before so cant wait to see how I do!

Also,... I got myself a web host nowto serve my pics. I went with www.site5.com. So far its cool as hell!!! I got 11GB of space and 400GB of bandwidth a month, more then I will ever need. So Im going to upload all my pics to that server. I am going to update the images links for only the reservoir logs. I am going to recreate an updated log with teh updated image links at my home at acryan. This way if any old pics should die,... you can head over to acryan to and check them out over there. I am going to get into the habit of creating a final log with nothing but my posts and those available at acryan. If the forums want this final log too they can have it by all means Now,... any new updates for blackout will be posted as usual within the fourms. Yea. I think thats it? Also,... acryan gave me access to my home so I can spruce it up a bit I am goingto post a FAQ there with the most popular questions such as,... where do you get your acrylic from? What type of glue is that? Can you make a custom something for me? LOL. Yea,... so if you ask something I will probably answer you but also point you to the FAQ. There's goign to be news and stuff there too. Not goign to waiste to much time on it seeing that my work resides with the designing of this stuff but I plan on spending some off time on it OH,... I named the reservoir. I mentioned this in a few of the forums already, I though tI wold say it again. I named it,... xPO352r. And I am serious. LOL. I decided to name everything like this because it's easy. I found myself thinking about names insted of thinking about whats next. So yea. Unless acryan, of coarse,... acryan disagrees So yeah,... you guyz can still name this stuff. Just has to be absolute randomness like the one I picked here. Bye!

[tribaloverkill]

Ok,... an update before I start cutting the shields or the first shield. I came to a compromise with the images. I upped the larger images to 640x480 instead of 320x240. The thumbs are going to stay 100x75 though. Cool? The way I see it,... if you can read at high resolutions,... you can see the thumbs

Dec-23-2005

Here are the two raw pieces or aluminum I am goingto use for the shields.


Here I had to make my own compass to draw the outer radius for the shields. My other compass couldnt draw a diameter this large.


Can you guess what I just did? Yes,... I did.


Glued both pieces together to cut the main shape of the shields.


Worked great with the table sander!!! It worked better then I though it would!! LOL.


Just have to be careful because a lip forms underneath that catches the edge to the table. If you are not careful you will flat side you round edges very easily.


I had to. So damn cute. Look at that pink belly! Totally out, while I was tracing my designs onto the shields.


Now,... I'm messing with the dog. Dog didn't wake up all. So funny.


Awwww,.... Plankton, I think she likes you Whats that? You like her too? *COUGH*PERV*COUGH*


Awwww! YO, I am totally not setting this up. This is the dog doing her own thing, LOL.


Finished drawing the first shield.



Finished cutting out the design. I made sute I press hard enough to scratch the design into the aluminum so that if the tape should come off, which it most likely will, I won't be lost. Cool looking Definitely see myself using this technique later on down the road to air brush

[tribaloverkill]

F@#$%$#% Tired.

Dec-24-2005

Pretty much finished the first side. I still have some more to do but the most of it is done. Just got done with the scroll saw.


All filed down nicely.


I have to run to the store and get some scroll saw blades. I was using my last one to cut this side! I was hoping it wouldnt break and to my surprise it didn't. So yea. I'm goign to bed and I will be waking up later to get started on the other side. Till then,... PEACE!