anonymous_putterer
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Edit Jan 2007: Since November three of my wetted sensor tripplets have failed. 3 years in constant use for some of them, the occasinal dry day included. Subjected to a wide variety of antifreezes, surficants, antifungals ...
Excuse the sloppyness here -- my first post.
10/23/2003 03:25p 54,126 mill_melter.JPG
Using a brass rod the same diameter as the WRDOWY17 head, I milled a flat on one side to match the flat of the sensor head. The same thing counld be done carefully with a hand file. Then I heated the rod and melted holes in 8x32 nylon locknuts, which I had previously turned round and small enough to slide in one side of my nylon tubing wyes.
10/23/2003 03:34p 36,232 pre_seal1.JPG
Components cleaned of flashing ready for assembly. The larger fuzzy looking white doughnut, triangulated by the knife, wye, and probe head is the turned, melted, and trimmed up by hand nylon nut.
10/23/2003 03:35p 31,510 pre_seal2.JPG
I`m using 3M Marine Adhesive Fast Cure 5200 here, a much higher grade of sealant than what my local auto and hardware stores sell -- it cures under water, more quickly, more densely ... ( If there are no boating stores near you, check online )
Here are 4 probes with the mounting rings on the probe heads only.
10/25/2003 10:25a 45,474 probes_drying.JPG
Slide the probe head and ring into one end of the wye and backfill it with the silicone. I used an automotive vacum hand pump connected to the flow ends of the wye to draw silicone in -- that picture did not turn out well.
10/24/2003 11:51a 32,533 ptex_hot.JPG
A sealing method that destroyed one probe straight off, and has made two others return frequent "CRC errors" to my 633 was to drip molten p-tex ( used to fill gouges in the base of a ski or snowboard ) behind the probes. One probe-wye put together that way is still functioning properly, most likely from getting no p-tex soot in the wye and from dripping the p-tex in in shallow layers with pauses, so the probe and wires never got too hot. ( The fuzzy black lumpy thing in the upper right corner is my water cooled and sound dampened hard drive enclosure. )
11/07/2003 10:01a 70,510 probe6_qfx_in place.JPG
One completed probe-wye in place. Kind of a sloppy picure there, `scusme. Center backround is a double sided GPU / Video RAM cooler on an NV30GL. Top left slantwise ( drain plug at edge of pic. ) is a now fanless Antec Tru-430 in an oil bath -> copper -> water heat exchanger.
{edit by admin: linked pictures}
Excuse the sloppyness here -- my first post.
10/23/2003 03:25p 54,126 mill_melter.JPG
Using a brass rod the same diameter as the WRDOWY17 head, I milled a flat on one side to match the flat of the sensor head. The same thing counld be done carefully with a hand file. Then I heated the rod and melted holes in 8x32 nylon locknuts, which I had previously turned round and small enough to slide in one side of my nylon tubing wyes.
10/23/2003 03:34p 36,232 pre_seal1.JPG
Components cleaned of flashing ready for assembly. The larger fuzzy looking white doughnut, triangulated by the knife, wye, and probe head is the turned, melted, and trimmed up by hand nylon nut.
10/23/2003 03:35p 31,510 pre_seal2.JPG
I`m using 3M Marine Adhesive Fast Cure 5200 here, a much higher grade of sealant than what my local auto and hardware stores sell -- it cures under water, more quickly, more densely ... ( If there are no boating stores near you, check online )
Here are 4 probes with the mounting rings on the probe heads only.
10/25/2003 10:25a 45,474 probes_drying.JPG
Slide the probe head and ring into one end of the wye and backfill it with the silicone. I used an automotive vacum hand pump connected to the flow ends of the wye to draw silicone in -- that picture did not turn out well.
10/24/2003 11:51a 32,533 ptex_hot.JPG
A sealing method that destroyed one probe straight off, and has made two others return frequent "CRC errors" to my 633 was to drip molten p-tex ( used to fill gouges in the base of a ski or snowboard ) behind the probes. One probe-wye put together that way is still functioning properly, most likely from getting no p-tex soot in the wye and from dripping the p-tex in in shallow layers with pauses, so the probe and wires never got too hot. ( The fuzzy black lumpy thing in the upper right corner is my water cooled and sound dampened hard drive enclosure. )
11/07/2003 10:01a 70,510 probe6_qfx_in place.JPG
One completed probe-wye in place. Kind of a sloppy picure there, `scusme. Center backround is a double sided GPU / Video RAM cooler on an NV30GL. Top left slantwise ( drain plug at edge of pic. ) is a now fanless Antec Tru-430 in an oil bath -> copper -> water heat exchanger.
{edit by admin: linked pictures}
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