#Submerse or submerge how to

I guess certainly no hotter than it was prior in the cirulating air environment. Phew! One other thing is that the case feels quite hot! Maybe it is because our summers here are pretty warm and humid. The one black fan as shown in the images and video started to fall over, but luckily was caught by the other case fan's cord. You may ask, 'Why can't you place that piece of junk hard drive in the aquarium?!' My answer to you, my friend, is that all hard drives have a little hole on the bottom of it that requires air to maintain proper preasure, if that were sealed, it would not function properly.Īs of now, it seems to be functioning alright, but keep a couple of things in mind velcro, as I have found out, does not hold down case fans too well. After that, we took a hot glue gun and sealed the top to the best of our abilities while resting the 9 year old hard drive on top. Luckily, all went well with this monstrosity. It posted successfully after filling it completely. As we poured in this revolting substance, we held our breath praying that it wouldn't explode in our faces for some odd reason. It is a bitch to get that out of the floor. Once we got back to my house, we placed a lot of bags on the ground, hoping not to mess up the hardwood floor. We had to purchase 40 pints of this liquid gold. Out of all of the southern region of this state, there is NO MINERAL OIL. Though in my region, after making 60 calls between Tester and I, we finally decided to go Walmart and K-Mart hopping.

#Submerse or submerge how to

Getting back to how to acquire it, your best bet is a tractor supply, or a farm. I cannot tell you how many cringes and questions I received when asking this on the phone and in person. Mineral oil is what people call, a 'Fleet Enima,' hence the name of this project, The 1337 Fleet. This is a last resort for the laxitive enthusiast. Most people don't seem to realize this, but this is the good 'shit' per se. Yeah, try asking someone at Walgreens or Walmart that you need 5 GALLONS of mineral oil.

The most difficult aspect of this tutorial was, believe or not, gaining the mineral oil. The hard drive alone has basically been on 9 years good old Compaq, wish they were as good as they were back then. Since this is a server of mine, it has been on for roughly 2 years straight. The most difficult part was cleaning out the heatsink underneath the CPU fan. I had completely forgotten that the PSU, system and CPU fans were completely caked in dust. to be exposed for connection.Īfter everything was mounted snug, much cleaning was needed. As shown in the image below, a hacksaw was used to cut the appropriate amount of space for the VGA, RJ-45, keyboard, mouse, etc. After waiting 10 minutes for it to dry for each layer, we had enough time to take the plastic lid that came with the aquarium to have it serve as a slightly moded bufferzone between air and oil. From there, we took the spare plexi glass, and broke it into 4 small 1' X 1' pieces, and glued them together with a bonding liquid that was about the strength between superglue and epoxy. After that, we took it out and drilled 3 holes in proper holding places so that the motherboard would remain secure. We then cut it to size, with the plexi-glass touching the bottom of the aquarium.

Tester happened to have a sheet of plexi-glass that was a bit longer than the motherboard, so we used that as the back plate to hold it firmly against the side of the aquarium (plus, it will look like nothing is holding the motherboard at all). First, we measured all the dimensions to gain the right aquarium, which just so happened to be a classic 5 gallon one from K-Mart. So, your materials are gathered, now to the fun part, modding! (To a certain extent).