Stealth your bay res

[biggiy6]

I thought of this a while back when I first got my resevoir and I wrote up the guide on gruntville after talking to DickNervous about it. This may or may not be useful for anyone outside of the United States but here it is.

This guide combines the Typhoon dual 5 1/2 bay resevoir with DangerDens fillport. Think T line meets bay res.

Tools needed:

Dremel
Minimum of two aluminum oxide grinding stones
Corded or cordless power drill
1in hole saw

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Parts needed:

Typhoon bay resevoir.
Chieftec dragan case or similar case with similar setup
DangerDen Fillport
1/2" or 3/8" tubing
Clamps



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The biggest complaint about bay resevoirs is the fact that you have to pull the res out to refill it.

Your other option if you don't want to use a bay resevoir is another resevoir of some type or use a T line setup. The only downside to a T line is that it takes longer for all of the air to be purged from the system.

So I came up with an idea that combines Dangerden's fillport and the typhoon dual 5 1/2 bay resevoir and the res is also stealthed. No more pulling the res out to fill it!

Okay so here is the victim for today my chieftec dragon full tower, this thing is huge and has more than enough space.

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So in this first picture you see that the res will not go back any farther.

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This is what is stopping the res.

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That is what needs to be grinded down. The two spots I marked are the pieces that need to grinded down. Grind down all four pieces in the back and four in the front.

Once you are done using the grinding stone the back should look like this.

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The front should also look similar to this without the knicks. The knicks are from the grinding stone and were done on my stripped down dragon that is about to bite the dust.

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Now that you have everything was stopping the res gone you can slide it into place.

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Now that you have stealthed the resevoir you aren't going to want to pull it back out to fill it again.

This is where it is nice to have the extra inlets on the typhhon resevoirs and DangerDen's fillport also has a second use besides just a T line filler.

The first step for installing the fillport is to decide where you want to put it. Since I am going to have a 92mm fan in the center of the top panel I decided to get as close to the edge as I could and put it in the middle.

After you have decided where you want to put the fillport grab your drill and holesaw. Make sure you have that sucker tight because it will do some serious damage if your not careful.

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Put the fillport in place and secure it with the provided acrylic locking ring

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Connect all your tubing, clamp it, sit back and admire your work.

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Now for my reward. What is left of the chocolate chip cookies^_^

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[scopEDog]

I've also done straight to the fill port on older clear res'..works a treat :)

[Fibbles]

A lot of us small bore users do this with our Aquatubes or similar reservoirs when they're mounted horizontally in bays. Well, the fill porting, not the stealthing...

[BigBen2k]

I have the same case. I ended up bending those tabs back a bit, at an angle, and it worked (for my application).

[Pug]

I missed this guide before but if the photos are still around, I'll happily sticky this for anyone who might find it useful. :magic:

[walkitiki]

pictures dead :-(

[biggiy6]

Sorry guys but the photos were lost a while back when my other computer decided to crap out on me.

I am hoping to get back into watercooling in the spring so I will get a fresh set of pictures and put them in here for everyone.

[zittware]

Too bad the way back machine can't help find those images... or can it?

[Pug]

Aww, sorry mate. I should have checked with you before I bumped it.

@John - I thought it only cached text, like Google... I could be wrong though.
[edit]Oh, it does do images... lemme run a search on 'em :magic:
[edit2]Hmm. Could only find a recent cache (http://web.archive.org/web/20051213041558/http://www.wizdforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1408) of it - (I tried changing the 20051213 in the url for an earlier copy but it came back with the same previous link). Any ideas?