2016 Thermaltake CaseMOD Invitational Season 2 - HUFFER Build

[rakesh_sharma23]

2016 Thermaltake CaseMOD Invitational Season 2 - HUFFER Build

Hello,
I am Rakesh Sharma from INDIA. Representing my country at 2016 Thermaltake CaseMod Invitational Season 2 with a unique casemod reflecting my passion towards Jet-Engines. Being from an engineering family background I always had a great attraction towards machines and engines, but unfortunately ended up as a Software Engineer in real life.

And Jet-Engines are such a beautiful artwork of engineering with great sound and power, which makes me little more passionate about. Now through this CaseMod I will try to showcase (likewise) one essential equipment used for starting a Jet engine.
The MA-1A Air-start cart or the 'HUFFER' cart.

For this CaseMod, I will be modifying the Thermaltake Core X5 ATX Chassis.

ABOUT BUILD IDEA

MA-1A Air-start cart, some people called it the “Huffer”, is a start cart used to start Jet engines. This cart generates high velocity air, this air is then fed into the aircraft jet engine, causing it to spin or spool up with sufficient RPM for starting. The cart's air delivery system is powered by a small turbine engine. This thing has started many well known aircrafts like Lockheed F-104, Boeing B-52 and YB-49, a flying wing design bomber aircraft commissioned for service with the U.S. Air Force shortly after World War II.

* Thanks to AgentJayZ for sharing this video. And if you love the sound of starting of a turbine engine as I do, forward the video time to 5:42 Enjoy..

Due to its rugged design, MA-1A start cart is still used to start modern Fighter-planes and commercial airliner’s engines in many countries around the World.

My Case mod is focused on this “Huffer” design, with the Thermaltake Core X5 case showcasing as the main engine unit.

HARDWARE

CASE

PSU

PROCESSOR

MOTHERBOARD

GRAPHICS

SSD

HDD

RAM

COOLING

 

[sneekypeet]

Since we did it with one thread, we may as well stay consistent.
Advertising for the sake of advertising is against the TOS of TPU. Thread has been edited and links have been removed to adhere to our guidelines.
https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/forum-guidelines.197329/ For reference!

 

[eidairaman1]

that cart sounds like a -60 I used while in

 

[dorsetknob]

this contest
2016 Thermaltake CaseMOD Invitational Season 2

Is there a rule if you Enter that Says you have to spam forums with sponsor's Product picture's

Just wondering as this second Thread that's Suffered This ??????

 

[peche]

this contest
2016 Thermaltake CaseMOD Invitational Season 2

Is there a rule if you Enter that Says you have to spam forums with sponsor's Product picture's

Just wondering as this second Thread that's Suffered This ??????

had the same question ...

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

I say change the TOS to no case mod contest builds unless it sponsored by TPU.

 

[sneekypeet]

this contest
2016 Thermaltake CaseMOD Invitational Season 2

Is there a rule if you Enter that Says you have to spam forums with sponsor's Product picture's

Just wondering as this second Thread that's Suffered This ??????

had the same question ...

@dorsetknob @peche Technically this one was first. Actually from what I heard from the other thread starter, part of the competition states links are to be used....anything for free traffic right?

 

[dorsetknob]

.anything for free traffic right?

Yeh Free publicity is sic OK especially when someone Else is Footing the Bill (@W1zzard Bandwidth in this case)

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/case-modders-and-their-e-peen.225196/

 

[rakesh_sharma23]

Since we did it with one thread, we may as well stay consistent.
Advertising for the sake of advertising is against the TOS of TPU. Thread has been edited and links have been removed to adhere to our guidelines.
https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/forum-guidelines.197329/ For reference!

Sorry Sir I did't mean to link products for Advertising purpose.. Thanks for editing it.. will take care next time.

 

[peche]

@dorsetknob @peche Technically this one was first. Actually from what I heard from the other thread starter, part of the competition states links are to be used....anything for free traffic right?

seems legit that you should have to do something for your sponsors, but i find most posts about some sponsored mods like spam since all the sponsor lists its bigger than mod itself...also more photos about sponsors and they just upload some pics about the mod progress so most people out there lost interest about the mod, like me ...

so i bet if they use to place just one pic of sponsor list or sh*t, and post moar about the project, the more people will follow or being interested on the mod project!

Regards,

 

[rakesh_sharma23]

UPDATE : 5-Nov-2016

Finally after waiting for long, I received my first shipment from Thermaltake.

Very excited… Now build work is no full throttle.

 

[rakesh_sharma23]

UPDATE : 7-Nov-2016

Boards for the build is here, now Saturday night will be a great fun.

Cutting, drilling and assembling of MDF forming rough Air starter outer shell.
All hand tools, no power tools here..

 

[rakesh_sharma23]

UPDATE : 9-Nov-2016

Somewhat basic shell is ready.

Now first filling of all joints and edges.

Sanding down all the joints and rough sides, forming curved edges. Now will be doing a second fill and fine sanding before first primer layer.

 

[rakesh_sharma23]

UPDATE : 12-Nov-2016

Moisture proof coating applied, one more sanding and shell is ready for primer.

Cutting top panel for air inlet doors

 

[rakesh_sharma23]

UPDATE : 14-Nov-2016

More packages arrived with lot of goodies.

Working on the Gauge panel of the bulid.. Doing some wiring.

 

[rakesh_sharma23]

UPDATE : 19-Nov-2016

Working on automatic top air inlet flap and exhaust flap. Also finally wheels arrived.

 

[rakesh_sharma23]

UPDATE : 22-Nov-2016

Slow and steady build under progress.
Making mounting brackets for servo motors with LCD mounting in the top air inlet flap and little sneak peak on paint job.

 

[rakesh_sharma23]

UPDATE : 28-Nov-2016

80 % paint job done. Test fitting some parts. Now working on final paint job, trying to give old and retro looks.

 

[rakesh_sharma23]

UPDATE : 03-Dec-2016

Build progress on full speed. Working on finishing the top air flaps.
LDC controller and micro-controller boards installed working on wiring and connection layout. Hope to finish top panel wiring soon.

 

[rakesh_sharma23]

UPDATE : 5-Dec-2016

Full Sunday working… from printer scrap parts to fully working top-air flap transition done successfully., just slight fine-tuning required.

 

[rakesh_sharma23]

UPDATE : 07-Dec-2016

Front analog control panel part done. Everything working fine. RPM meter is displaying fan RPM. Under 5000 RPM meter displays accurate fan RPM, but above that it starts showing higher values of RPM.. some fine tuning in Arduino code will solve the issue.

 

[rakesh_sharma23]

UPDATE : 12-Dec-2016

Slowly pushing the build towards its completion. Installing VGA water block on both graphic cards.

Test fitting, everything looks nice so fare.

 

[rakesh_sharma23]

UPDATE : 17-Dec-2016

Making of liquid channel plate from sheets of acrylic. Cutting, drilling and then threading holes for compression fitting installation.

Now water channel is cut out from a 12mm thick acrylic sheet and everything is fused together with acrylic cement and installed inside the case.

 

[FireFox]

You're a Genius @rakesh_sharma23

 

[rakesh_sharma23]

UPDATE : 20-Dec-2016

At last PETG tubes installation done. It was easy and perfect.

Yellow transparent side panels cut down to proper dimensions, look great.

Still cutting marks are visible on side and edges, will be polishing for proper finish.