Your PC Can Look Like THIS Now!

they called me a Madman it'll leak it'll

break it's heresy not heresy

science through the power of 3D scanning

and printing at long last we've done it

a Hardline watercooled gaming PC with

impossible tubing bins and all it took

was some really cool technology a bit of

modeling and patience let's start with

the first one this thing is so freaking

cool the Ein scan Pro 2x V2 from shining

3D is a multi-functional handheld 3D

scanner that is exactly what it sounds

like this can be used to create a

digital representation of small and

medium-sized objects just like our

computer here after calibrating it

against their handy dandy calibration

board it works by shining a white LED

pattern onto an object then registering

any deformations of that pattern through

the attached camera of course because

our computer is black and even worse

kind of reflective it uh no works so

good out of the box fortunately fixing

that is as simple as picking up a can of

this as sub's matte Vanishing spray

which no before you

ask will not make your computer

disappear but what it will do is help

out the scan by covering your object in

an 8 to 15 micrometer layer of matte

material that can even be in different

colors and will sublimate away or change

from a solid to a gas after just a few

hours now that our computer is no longer

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we did a full short circuit video on the

in scan where you guys can see the whole

process but in a nutshell it's basically

Star Trek and then you export the rough

model from their software for a bit of

clean up in blender or the modeling

software of your choice that's it even

before cleanup actually unless you're

doing something more elaborate it is

more than usable for some quick quick

simple tubing runs at this point all

we've got to do then is model our tubes

from one fitting to the next using

Fusion 360 which by the way has a hobby

license that is free and then hit the

print button right well not quite part

of the point of this project was that we

didn't want to bring out the saws and

pipe cutters heat guns torches and

deburring tools so one final step that

we're going to add to the modeling

process is to add our own chamford Edge

to the end of every tube so that it can

slide right into our compression

fittings now we print and while you wait

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check out our new Labs phase shirts and

sweaters for our tubing we started by

testing the most common 3D printing

material pla on ausa markv I mean in

theory it should work and you can't beat

the ease of use but as it turns out

people don't do this for a reason the

glass transition temperature of pla is

around 60° C and our water shouldn't

ever get that high but in the event of a

pump or a fan failure it could happen

which would cause our tubing to soften

and deform turning a bad situation into

an absolute

catastrophe now we could switch to petg

which is the same material used by many

Hardline tubing suppliers but solving

the material issue still doesn't solve

the paracity issue this style of layered

deposition means that there are teeny

tiny gaps between the layers that

prevent our system from being completely

watertight now we could fix it if we

really wanted to by smearing epoxy along

the entire length of the tube but I mean

come on that's a pretty goofy solution

when we can do this

instead man these are cool do I get any

credit for this being my idea to try no

Justin said yes this was my idea what

the resin well just 3D printing in

general I suggested the resin printer

fine fine whoever's idea it was or

wasn't this is so freaking cool some of

these are really clean like look at this

Bend yeah it's like perfect right it's

it's almost too perfect it's perfect I

mean there are parts that are less

perfect clearly we had to do some

sanding here with a resin goo kind of

dripped but like dude have you ever

tried to Hardline bendit 2 before yeah

could you do this shape oh no oh no no

no no I mean look at this 90° coming out

of one of the fittings you cannot do

that you can do it and then cut down

sure but it still won't be that tight if

you have a clearance issue you cannot

achieve that radius by hand bending now

obviously to get things this exact

you're going to need models of the

fittings that you're going into so that

you can ensure it's going to line up

perfectly but you don't even need to do

that you can do a little bit of trial

and error and you can actually cut or

sand these down to length just like you

would with regular Hardline tubing if

you overdo it SLA printing is super cool

it works by UV hardening resin of that

and one of the biggest advantages aside

from a lack of paracity and a glass

transition temp that's higher than pla

is

customization I mean you could buy resin

in various colors and keep them all in

stock but why do that when you can buy

clear resin and then dye batches

whatever color you want or better yet

use UV reactive dye to make your tubing

glow under a black light SLA printing is

also the secret to being able to achieve

shapes that would be impossible with

traditional manual bending guys I've

done a fair number of Hardline water

cooled systems and even I am not about

to sit here and try and bend my own

shell spiral let's see what our system

looks like with something more like

this oh I love it so much but lonus you

might warn resin is brittle it's going

to crack or even shatter under the

pressure of a custom water cooling Loop

well I mean you're not wrong but you'd

also be surprised by just how strong

this stuff actually is we bought some

monocure 3D tough High tensile strength

resin from spool 3D Canada and it's

worked out pretty great so far and while

we of course aren't going to recommend

that you do this at home because I don't

want to be liable for your RTX 480 or

whatever I'm confident enough to risk my

own RTX 480 and we're going to leave

this computer running for 6 months or

until it leaks with regular updates on

Twitter and flow plane

oh this looks

incredible and best part guys is that it

looks like any other Hardline build

except for people are going to look at

it and go how on Earth did you do that

because these builds are wild I mean

even a skilled Artisan like Charles

Harwood creator of the mbx MK2 murder

box couldn't do something like this

Charles that's not a challenge just sit

down and look I'm not going to sit here

and tell you guys that this Loop has the

best possible flow rate and sure um some

of it looks more like a silly straw or a

water slide than an actual you know

tubing job but the point of the

experiment was to find out where the

limits are and I feel like we're just

scratching the surface I mean okay we

did kind of find some limits um can you

tell me what happened with this yeah I

basically showed up installed a tube it

leaked and delayed the sheet by like a

whole day because all of this was

covered in water so we had a small

pinhole leak but I don't think that that

invalidates the concept especially

because looking at this tube it's not

even immediately obvious where you guys

fixed it what did you even do just put a

little bit of resin on it or glue that's

a really simple fix then yeah okay tell

me this knowing everything you know

about this okay we haven't done the

durability testing yet would you do a

system like this probably not oh I just

hate resin printing everything else is

awesome I just hate the resin it's so

terrible to work with fume oh okay

that's why we have Justin if someone

else could print it for you if you just

used like a 3D printing service sure

yeah this actually pretty

awesome okay Moment of

Truth that's pretty fun watching that is

so cool it's the impossibility of it

like yeah you could maybe create a

custom mold for something like this but

it would be specific to that model of PC

it that particular case and damn near

impossible to injection mold but with

the beauty of additive manufacturer look

at it

go to be clear even 3D printing this

there could be some trickiness you'll

have to play around with supports you

might have to do some finishing to get

it to look a little bit nicer but the

sky is the

limit we went with 10/12 mm tubing but

you could do bigger tubes smaller tubes

and this is kind of cool okay you've

played with solid Works flow simulation

yeah would anything prevent you from

like

okay this is so close to being a signed

to you already and I haven't even talked

to you about it yet would anything would

anything prevent you from creating a an

open loop so you actually have like a a

water slide that you like create laminer

flow and like blast the water over to a

receptacle and like a waterfall can we

do the loop such that we're cooling the

GPU and the CPU has an NHD and it

waterfalls over it I mean can

we yeah okay no promises though I think

the best part of this though is that

while we did use a 3D scanner you don't

have to you can totally do the work the

traditional way by just measuring out

your runs and then modeling accordingly

and if you think about it even the 3D

printer is kind of optional right like

we've got an eligo Saturn 4 ultra which

retails for around $400 but there are

online services that that will print

things for you as long as you find

something with a good amount of vertical

print height for your lengthier tubes or

a wide printing bed just make sure that

you're using something that's precise

enough that your tolerances aren't going

to cause leaks at your fittings so an

eligo Mars 4 or better is what we would

recommend without breaking the bank this

limits us to either smaller form factor

machines though or a lot of money spent

on interconnecting fittings for

extensions as for the resin itself the

price does vary quite a bit but we can

get a liter of the same stuff that we

used for about $80 which will create

quite a lot of tubing for example our

proof of concept here took only 87.4 Ms

out of our 1 L jug which is about $8 now

realistically I don't see that many

folks putting this into action um

outside of maybe Niche small form factor

Builders but just like everything in 3D

printing as the quality goes up and as

the costs come down I could conceivably

see a small to midsize system integrator

shipping hardlines systems at a super

low cost because most of the cost of a

Hardline system is not in the tubes it's

in the labor all the measuring and all

the cutting and bending and installing

or I could even see home users sharing

models with each other so that Hardline

tubing could become as simple as copying

your buddy's case selection and building

list and measurements and then just

printing out the same set of tubes

throwing them in and calling it a day if

you do want to get your own SL printer

by the way just make sure you take the

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