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You don't even need to know the specifics to realize that today's economic reports were weak. All you need to know is that there was no mention of them in the Associated Press's list of Top 10 business stories as of 3:35 p.m. Among stories considered more important: a product review of Apple's tiny market-share program called iWork and three dozen passengers suing Carnival Cruise Lines.
This morning's release from ADP on February private-sector employment growth reported 139,000 jobs added; the previous four months were revised down by a total of 138,000. The Institute for Supply Management's Non-Manufacturing Index came in at 51.6%, showing relatively slow expansion (anything above 50% indicates expansion) compared to January's 54.0%. The reports missed expectations of 155,000 jobs added and 53.5%, respectively. AP coverage of these two reports somewhat understated their weakness, one quantitatively and the other qualitatively.
Christopher Rugaber's dispatch on the ADP report leaned heavily on report presenter Mark Zandi's statements in the conference call shortly after the report's release, except for one thing: He chose not to relay Zandi's description of the news as "somewhat disappointing." Rugaber also ignored most of the prior-period revisions, even though he asked Zandi a question about them during the call (bolds are mine throughout this post):
A private survey shows that U.S. companies added slightly more jobs in February than in the previous month, but harsh winter weather still weighed on hiring.
Payroll processor ADP said Wednesday that businesses added 139,000 jobs last month, up from only 127,000 in January. But January's figure was revised sharply lower from an original estimate of 175,000.
The data suggests that the government's jobs report for February, to be released Friday, will show only modest gains. Economists forecast it will show that employers added 145,000 jobs last month. That is below the average gains of nearly 205,000 jobs a month in the first 11 months of last year.
The ADP numbers cover only private businesses and often diverge from the government's more comprehensive report. In January and December its initial figures were much higher than the official count. The Labor Department said employers added 113,000 jobs in January and just 75,000 in December.
The other three downward revisions included the following:
- December went from 227K to 191K.
- November went from 289K to 245K.
- October went from 206K to 196K.
That's a combined 90,000 in reductions beyond January's 48,000 (175K minus 127K).
Josh Boak's AP report on the ISM index was reasonably measured, until he got to his selection of which respondent's comment to use:
U.S. service companies expanded more slowly in February as hiring levels declined in a cautionary sign for the economy coming out of winter.
The Institute for Supply Management said Wednesday that its service-sector index fell to 51.6 from 54 in January. Any reading above 50 indicates expansion.
But the harsh winter weather posed challenges. The real estate, retail, hotel, food services and construction industries all contracted last month. And a measure for hiring plunged 8.9 percentage points to 47.5, evidence that many companies shed workers. It raises concern that the February jobs report the government will release Friday could disappoint.
"Risk of a Friday shock has risen," concluded Ian Shepherdson, chief economist for Pantheon Macroeconomics.
The trade group's survey covers businesses that employ 90 percent of the workforce, including retail, construction, health care and financial services firms.
... Despite the downturn in employment, measures for new orders and production in the index both point to continued expansion.
"Economy still plugging along, but at a very slow rate of growth," said one firm interviewed for the survey.
The problem isn't the comment Boak quoted. It's the one he ignored.
"Health Care and Social Services" was among the categories in contraction in February. Until recently, health care was one of the few bright spots in a largely lackluster recovery. Now it's not. I wonder why?
One respondent quoted in the ISM report relayed their view, and quite strongly. Here's that person's statement, one which I believe Boak should have quoted:
"The Affordable Care Act is creating significant financial uncertainty to healthcare organizations. With little warning, the negative impact on revenue has been unprecedented."
Imagine that.
AP's quick removals of its stories about these reports from the highlight reel probably mean that you won't hear or see much about them in tonight's TV broadcasts. That's not an accident.
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When Pfizer CEO Jeffrey B. Kindler first tried to recruit Corey Goodman to lead the company's San Francisco-based Biotherapeutics and Bioinnovations Center in the summer of 2007, the pharmaceutical industry was struggling to develop drugs efficiently—and so was Pfizer (PFE). In the previous decade, the proportion of drugs developed by the pharmaceutical industry that actually made it to market had dropped from 10% to a mere 5%. In 2007, Pfizer's profits plummeted to $8 billion, down from $19 billion, a 58% drop from 2006. Pfizer needed to get more drugs for patients into the marketplace to bring in more revenues—and fast.
Kindler challenged Goodman to figure out how better to develop major new drugs. Goodman believed Pfizer could achieve superior results by creating an environment that would nurture the type of innovative spirit that exists in biotech companies. The only trouble was that Goodman needed to instill entrepreneurial spirit inside a pharmaceutical Goliath. This would require a radical shake-up.
Pfizer became even bigger when it acquired rival Wyeth for $68 billion in January. But Goodman remains persuaded that Pfizer has no better option than to conduct research in smaller teams that resemble those at biotech startups. Transforming into more of a biotech is "the right model for Pfizer and for the industry," he insists.
The old research assembly lineWhile Pfizer's attempted metamorphosis is little more than a year old, Goodman says he's beginning to see signs of progress in his division. "The degree of productivity is high. It's higher than what you've seen in the pharmaceutical industry. We're very excited about some of the new drugs. And the best is yet to come," he says.
The changes necessary for the transition to get this far have been dramatic. Before Goodman joined Pfizer, researchers in his center were part of a very large research and development group that left them limited ownership of their discoveries. Researchers would hand their early research over to others when their drugs were first tested in humans. After a drug went through clinical trials, it was handed off to yet another group.
When Goodman took control of research at Pfizer's Biotherapeutics and Bioinnovations Center, he broke his researchers into more focused teams. At the same time, he made scientists accountable for overseeing drug candidates when they went into clinical trials. Goodman believes scientists should be conscious of whether or not their discoveries work in humans. "People have more accountability and more ownership if they're working in small groups," he says. "It allows you to keep your eye on innovation and drug discovery."
Marketers are following suitRecently, Pfizer reorganized its entire research group and even its business units around the same principle as Goodman's center. Groups that market drugs have been broken into smaller business units, each of which is focused on certain types of patients and diseases. They're involved with drugs from the beginning of pivotal clinical trials and they work with doctors to figure out what patents need. The hope is that their increased involvement will help Pfizer identify which types of drugs address the greatest medical needs and the largest market opportunities.
Goodman acknowledges that Pfizer is far from reaching its ultimate goal of having an entrepreneurial biotech research culture. And some aspects of the restructuring have been painful. In January, Pfizer announced plans to lay off 800 of its approximately 10,000 researchers. "We've got to save costs and get more drugs to the market," says Goodman. "We have to be smarter about how we do that."

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Top 10 Tutorials to Develop iPhone AppsBy Partho, Gaea News Network
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
If you are tired of downoading apps for your iPhone why not develop one. Don't worry, even if you are a novice with iPhone programming there are a good number of tutorials that can guide you with the development of iPhone apps. It's obvious that you would find it hard when developing your first iPhone app. There is a whole lot of information in iPhone SDK Development that will guide you with the tools and APIs for iPhone application development. Further, there are some cool tutorials that will provide you a step-by-step guide for developing iPhone apps. After a thorough search I came across the top 10 tutorials to develop iPhone apps. Hope my tutorials inspire you to develop your own great iPhone applications.
1. Objective-C and Interface Builder
In order to build iPhone apps you would require a the basics of Cocoa Touch, Objective-C, and Interface Builder. This free tutorial will assist you to learn the elementary knowledge required for developing iPhone apps.
2. First iPhone Application
This tutorial gives you a brief introduction on how to get started with your first iPhone application. This app has been named as
3. Basic iPhone Programming
This is a great tutorial for those new to iPhone SDK Programming (Cocoa in general). Learn the techniques for creating lables, Allocating Classes, AND how to use the basic features of Xcode.
4. Cocoa Touch Tutorial
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5. iPhone SDK Tutorial: Build a Simple RSS reader for the iPhone
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6. How to make an iPhone Application on XCode
This is an video tutorial that teaches you the step by step procedure need to get an iPhone application running on The XCode Simulator.
7. iPhone Application Tutorial
This tutorial combines two applications - Hello World app and Timer app. By the end of this tutorial you would have the foundation to think about future apps.
8. iPhone Dev Sessions: How To Make An Orientation-Aware Clock
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9. iPhone Programming Tutorial - Creating a ToDo List Using SQLite Part 1
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10. Make an iPhone App Using the Envato API
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July 21, 2010: 8:45 pm
Hi Sunny,
I personally believe that you should only enroll when you have at least developed a mock up application first. The tutorials on this page will be of great help to you. Also, give Sensible TableView a try, it will definitely cut your learning curve significantly.
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May 2, 2010: 8:21 am
Excellent post / resource so many great tutorials, spoilt for choice if anything. thanks so much!!
April 30, 2010: 11:27 pm
On this website the Link's are not working. Could you please update. thanks
April 15, 2010: 2:32 am
some of your links are dead. visit this link
March 29, 2010: 2:40 pm
some of your links are dead.
February 8, 2010: 2:51 pm
And for those of you with creatie new app ideas but no programming skills there is NewAppIdea.com, a spot to meet and hire experienced app developers.
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January 15, 2010: 2:29 pm
Great links! Thanks for sharing!
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thanks a lot for sharing, i'll try out the iphone programming.
November 27, 2009: 11:11 pm
Yes, the firs link IS busted, and all of these are WAY outdated. They are using the SDK2 and are quite poor to learn iPhone programming, seeing that many things different.
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October 24, 2009: 2:51 pm
Thank you for sharing this top 10 tutorials for iphone apps developers. Keep it up.
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Check out the 12 week iPhone Development Start to Finish course offered by EDUmobile.ORG . Its served out online via Video, Weekly Worksheets and One-on-One help via your own personal tutor who guides you through the entire course. You get a certificate at the end and even a chance to optionally work on a live industrial project.
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links are broken for me too….
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Hi Rapha,
Please check again. We don't think any link is broken.
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all the damn links are broken and not working i tough this site would help me but no…. if somebody have WORKING links for these tutorials please EMAIL ME
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By Noel Black On October 26, 2009 · 7 Comments · In A Big Something, Big Something Book Club, Books and Authors, Ideas
We're very pleased to announce the first-ever book for the first-ever Big Something Book Club: Jon Krakauer's Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman.
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The first Big Something Book Club meeting will take place at all three of the above locations on Thursday, December 3 at 6 p.m. (if you aren't in the area, we'll also have a discussion throughout the day here on KRCC.org).
Now, here's why we chose Jon Krakauer's Where Men Win Glory as the first book for The Big Something Book Club:
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Before modding anything, make sure all maintenance is up to date. Every 30k (give or take) is a semi-major maintenance milestone. Check out this link: Subaru maintenance schedules and new car break-in period- 2000 through 2009, links for 2010, 2011...
When all the maintenance is complete, make sure you have a good set of tires (or two). You should get winter tires since you live in Colorado and almost certainly see a fair amount of snow and summer tires for the warmer months. Two sets of wheels make switching much easier and it also gives you an option if you happen to damage a tire beyond repair since all four must be replaced at the same time (or kept within 1-2/32" of each other). Tires must be the exact same size, brand, and type - no mixing and matching.
1. Buy a K&N panel air filter and GP Moto intake silencer delete elbow (or make your own... search: Snorkus Delete Mod), install them, done.
2. Buy the Cobb AccessPORT V2 and flash to Stage 1 immediately, enjoy smoother power delivery, done.
3. Buy any cat back you like, bolt it on, done.
4. Buy a bellmouth downpipe, bolt it on and flash to Stage 2, done.
5. Buy rear and/or front sway bars and endlinks, bolt them on, done.
That's the basic recipe for a fun "Stage 2" WRX. Some people like to get a pro tune immediately after installing the downpipe, but it's not particularly necessary if you're not looking to squeeze every last little bit of power out of the car. If you're just daily driving it, any reputable OTS (off the shelf) or generic Stage 2 map should be fine. If you plan to drive the car hard, you might want to consider a pro tune.
Why would you still fail the visual with a catted DP? I have a hi-flow cat, and have passed emissions for PA. Mine is also a daily, and I didn't feel like wanting to smell like gas or having black smoke clouds during WOT. I am sure my thought process will change once I actually upgrade my turbo set up.
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Clashes between federal and local law enforcement in southern Utah -- including the high-profile arrest of 16 residents accused of trafficking in American Indian artifacts -- are driving an effort to put limits on federal officers' authority.
Rep. Mike Noel, R-Kanab, said there is concern about the "gradual encroachment by federal law enforcement on what I believe are the authorities for the sheriff in the state of Utah."
Noel's son, Cameron, is the sheriff of Beaver County.
San Juan County Sheriff Mike Lacy said he is still dealing with the fallout from "the fiasco," last June, when federal agents arrested 16 suspected of dealing in American Indian artifacts.
"I think they acted inappropriately," said Lacy, who said all of them were arrested at gunpoint and detained. He said one of the suspects committed suicide and another attempted suicide "all because of the way the federal agents handled this raid."
During an interview a week after the raids, then-U.S. Attorney for Utah Brett Tolman and FBI Special Agent in Charge Timothy Fuhrman pushed back similar criticism.
They said authorities had reason to believe nearly all of the 24 people ensnared in the crackdown on illegal trafficking of American Indian artifacts had weapons either on them or in their homes and vehicles. Intelligence gathered during the antiquities investigation indicated danger levels ranging from zero to one suspect who told an undercover operative that if caught with artifacts, he would shoot it out with authorities rather than go to jail, Tolman said.
No weapons were fired.
Noel accused Bureau of Land Management officers of menacing off-road protesters who staged a rally last year on the Paria River streambed, which the BLM had closed to traffic.
He said four BLM officers in flak jackets took photographs of protesters and suggested they would take protesters' off-road vehicles.
The BLM agents turned over the information to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Spokeswoman Melodie Rydalch has said the office would not comment further.
But Kanab businesswoman Susan Hand said Monday the only "menacing" she heard about was rhetoric shouted during the pre-ride rally, where Noel and Kane County Commissioner Mark Habbeshaw exhorted 300 or so riders to motor up the streambed.
Hand, who organized a peaceful counter-protest picnic breakfast in the canyon, said most of the BLM officers were on foot and "seemed in good spirits."
"There didn't seem to be a lot of hostility" on either side, Hand said. "Actually, everyone seemed friendly."
HB146 would prohibit federal officers from the Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Park Service from exercising any law enforcement not explicitly authorized in federal law.
It also would prohibit federal agents from enforcing any state laws anywhere in Utah's borders and would allow local jurisdictions to refuse to enforce federal laws that the localities consider unconstitutional.
The House Natural Resources Committee approved the bill 13-0 and sent it to the full House.
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McDonald's stung by Brazilian fatty fightback
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SarAnd Relais is situated on a hill from which you can see the wonderful sea of Sperlonga. in 20 minutes you can reach the seaside but you can even decide to spend your time in the countryside, breathing pure air and having a perfect climate. At breakfast you can eat delicious home - made marmelades and cakes. I recommend a stay in SarAnd Relais.
The staff.... Nicola, Luigi, Analisa and, especially english speaking Sofia, went out of their way to help me w/bus schedules and accomodated me in any way they could. I am a world traveler and this was one of the best places I have stayed. I would highly recommend this hotel to anyone wishing to visit this area of Italy. It is a new ,clean, modern hotel ...a short walk to the center of historic Fondi. A great location from which to be based in order to go to the sea or tiny villages nearby. Excellent bus and train connections as well as a free shuttle to nearby beach in beautiful Sperlonga . I rate this place a 10 out of 10 ! Bravo, Hotel del Conte!! My only concern is not with the hotel but the attached restaurant which is run separately from the hotel. The cook, Teresa (sister of the hotel owner), prepares excellent italian meals and was very nice, however, her husband, the owner of the restaurant, has absolutely no clue as to how to treat customers and needs to take lessons from the owners of the hotel. I ate there the first few nights of my 9 day stay but stopped going after being treated badly and insulted by this man. I would not recommend this restaurant based on my experience.
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Fresh and smart modern hotel. Extremely helpful and serviceminded staff. Free transport alt. free parking at beach, no fees at beach. Good location for excursions although not charming. 10 minutes to city center and a great restaurant there called "Vicolo di Mblo´" Kitchen at hotelrestaurant needs upgrading. Small garden/yard and pool.


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In my bug out bag, I have two Sport Berkey water bottles, these work great and besides filtering out waterborne pathogenic bacteria and heavy metals the bottles do double duty as a canteen of sorts. But, with clean water being second in importance only to oxygen for survival, I've been looking to add yet another water filtration system to my bug out bag.
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With the two bag system, it is easy to hide the larger bag, or leave it at camp while still allowing me to have those "must have survival items" on my person at all times without having to carry the weight and bulk of the full-sized bag.
But, while the Berkey bottles are great for a full-sized bug out bag they take up to much space in the smaller bag, so I've added the LifeStraw water filter system to my kit.
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Taking my TJ07 to the watcooling extreme
Last January I was lucky enough to get my hands on a second-hand TJ07 and some water cooling gear. The first owner had setup up a dual loop system, which I kept with only aesthetic changes until yesterday, when I started work on this project.
First I'll show you what I'm starting from.
From these you can see that the loops share a common bay reservoir, and each loop is powered by an MCP655 pump. The CPU loop uses a BIP2 installed in the top of the case, while the GPU loop uses a BIX2 installed in the bottom. I was going for a back/red theme with some yellow highlights, so I used UV red plexi to help mount the BIP2.
I have not been able to find a red UV coolant that's actually RED.
It's been said that the TJ07 is the best water cooling case on the market, and that it's perfect when too much is just right. With this project, I want to show how much I agree with these statements and create a tribute to overkill water cooling. I am hoping to be able to cram the following parts into this build, with everything mounted internally:
two Swiftech MCR320 radiators (one in top, one in base)
one Swiftech MCR220 radiator (in base)
two Swiftech MCP655 pumps run in series (in base)
D-tek Fusion CPU Block
Swiftech MCW60 GPU block (possibly two)
Swiftech MCW30 Northbridge block (or stock ASUS Blitz Formula)
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I also plan to use two quick-disconnect fittings (from Colder) so that I can easily remove the motherboard tray without draining the loop. We'll have to see how the space issue works out.
There are a lot of fantastic TJ07 project logs out there, and I will be borrowing heavily from them for most of this project. Two projects in particular that I recommend are Ladderman's and AndyM's.
I'm going to start this project off with the feature that I haven't seen anyone else do yet - mounting an MCR320 in the top of the case. Stay tuned.
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As you can see from the pictures in the first post, there is hardly any clearance between the BIP2 and the top edge of the motherboard - in order to make it fit the fans were mounted directly to the red Plexiglass top plate in order to not waste the ~3mm thickness of the case top plate.
In order to mount the thicker MCR320, I'm going to have to create more room, so I decided to use two Plexiglass plates this time, stacked one on top of the other - the top plate would serve to mount the fans and radiator, while the lower plate would simply act as a 3mm spacer to make everything fit. I also have to cut out more of the top of the case.
I started with an clear AC Ryan Acrylpanel, taped it up and noted the width of the pieces I wanted. The pieces were cut out on a table saw - it only took two cuts because the 490mm x 490mm size turned out to be very convenient.
Once the pieces were cut, the spacer plate was loaded onto a Bridgeport manual mill and covered with some scrap material to prevent chipping. Here you can see how it was cut out. I didn't do the milling here - I suggest that you be friendly to the people that you meet, one of them might be a machinist. Here you can see the finished piece.
Notice that the bit still managed to jump around a bit on the top left corner. I have enough material to make another spacer, but I'll probably keep this one. Also notice that 6 holes were drilled to mount the panel to the top of the case. The previous build used 10-32 socket head cap screws to secure the top plate to the case, and M3 socket head cap screws to hold the fans/rad. Here, I plan to use black-oxide 6-32 button head cap screws to mount everything.
The next thing we did was mill out the top of the case. Due to the uni-body frame and the size of the Bridgeport's table, we got a little creative.
There is some scrap plastic material underneath the top of the case (white) and we made sure everything was clamped.
Almost done.
Finished. I didn't take enough pictures yesterday, but here's one I just took showing how the edges look.
Since the fans will be mounted through the top of the case, they will completely cover the edging so I won't be painting it. The chip on the left is actually the remainder of one of the old mounting holes drilled by the previous owner.
The last item made yesterday was the top plate - all we used was a hole saw.
Looks pretty decent.
When I got home, I realized that I'd forgotten about the fan mounting holes on the top plate. Also, due to the limited table travel on the Bridgeport, I had to drill the top plate mounting holes into the case by hand. First I set everything where I wanted it and clamped.
Then I just drilled through the top plate mounting holes through the case. In order to drill the fan mounting holes, I flipped to top plates over, set three fans into the opening in the spacer (which was now on top of the top plate), and drilled through the fan holes. Here's a test fit:
Seems to work well. This next picture should clear up how these top plates are going to work.
The three circular holes and fan mounting holes are in the top plate, whereas the wide rectangular opening is in the spacer plate underneath, so that the fans butt right up against the top plate, thus giving me another ~3mm of clearance for the MCR320. Tragedy struck when I untaped the spacer:
I can remake the part, but I think I may be able to live with this. See, there are some mounting holes in the top of the case that need to be hidden - I'm planning to do this the quick and easy way - with a strip of electrical tape. I figure another strip on top of the spacer plate may go unnoticed.
But now it's time for the moment of truth - up until now I wasn't 100% sure that the radiator would clear the top edge of the motherboard. I did a quick test fit:
Concept Proven! MCR320 + 25mm fans fits with a 3mm spacer.
Then I opened up a box from Jab-tech....
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Check these fans out.
The top two fans here are Yate Loon -C fans, that I got from Jab-tech. They are only ~20mm thick, meaning that if I use these fans, the spacer plate is unnecessary. Unfortunately, the two that I received both made some fairly annoying noises while running. There's a rubbing sound that I don't like - Yate Loon isn't known for great QC, but for decent fans for little money. If it weren't for the noise and the fact that I've already made the spacer, I might've used these.
While I'm at it, here's a look at the BIP2, BIX2 and MCR320.
This is the BIX2. It's fin density appears to be the same as the BIP2, but it's much thicker.
Here's the BIP2. The BIP series is the thinnest that I'm aware of - mounting it without a spacer plate would be no problem. Don't be fooled by the spec thickness though, this thing is NOT 25mm thick overall. If you look at the technical drawing, you'll notice that the TANK is 25mm thick, but when I measure the mounting brackets, it's more like 28-29mm.
And here's the MCR320 - fewer fins per inch means less fan rpm required to push through it, and with all the radiators I'm planning to stuff in this case, fewer rpms will be nice.
More to come next week.
Last edited by NicePants42; 09-02-2007 at 03:53 PM.
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Looks pretty good man. How thick is the plexi? I'm asking because if it's thick enough you could countersink the holes and use black socket bugle head machine screws and have the screws be flush with the plexi.
Also, do you know about flame polishing plexi? You expose a edge or hole (like countersinks) to a flame and it will gloss up like it was never cut. Just don't hold it there too long for obvious reasons. Two things about flame polishing... too long in one spot and it's over and after polishing do not expose it to alcohol or it'll shatter. Not into a million pieces but rather into a web of tiny cracks. It does do an awesome job though and with some experimentation you can make it look factory.
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The plexi is 3mm thick. I'd considered using 5mm thick stock, but I didn't want to have a huge block of material on the top of the case. Also, as of right now I'm planning to use fan filters (the same ones I've used before) or a radiator grill. Either of these will sit on top of the plexi and neither will be thick enough to really accept a countersink.
As for flame polishing, I had initially planned on sanding, but if I can flame polish with a lighter, I may use this method to clean up my outer edges.
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A torch style lighter should do the job nicely.
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Man, THat's a lot of water. I guess you are not taking the case anywhere. Look's Great all lit up.
I'd like to see the temps when you get it all running
I'm running the CoolIt Freezone Chiller , temps are around 29C at idle and up to 40C at full load.
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Looks great so far Nate! Looking forward to the progress. Sounds like it's going to be one heavy sucker when it's completed ;-)
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Pump 'n Grind
Well, I didn't have much to do today, so I decided to try porting the two MCP655s I hope to use in this project. I think it went pretty well.
First, full credit for this mod goes to MartinM210. Martin has also been working on a very useful flow rate estimator that may help you pick components for your loop. One thing I had first considered doing was using two DB-1 pumps in series and only two MCR320s to build a near-silent system, but since I already have the MCP655s, and want to make the most of the space in the bottom of the case, I like my current plan. Silent is nice, but I'm going to try to use fan control in this system, and the MCP655s are adjustable.
Anyway, on to the pictures.
First, these are the two Dremel tools that I used to complete this modification (thus far).
Here's the inside of the first MCP655 before the mod:
The idea here is that the outlet needs to be smoothed out - there is a pretty big lip on it that needs to go, and things need to be more rounded in general. Here's how it looks now:
You can tell I did this by hand
Most of the material was removed using the #104 cylindrical cutter head @ 6000-8000 rpm. I'd never done any of this before today, so it was a learning experience, but here's a general idea of how I'd do it:
1. Cut away the lip in the picture and start rounding the edge.
2. Once the entrance to the outlet is mostly flat, send the cutter head in through the outlet hole itself (making sure that it protrudes all the way into the inside of the housing) and open up the inside diameter.
3. Use the cutting head from the inside of the housing again to lean and round to the now slightly larger ID.
4. Clean up with the conical grinder (#7144).
I ran into trouble with my grinder because it's shaft was too small to lock snugly into my Dremel, so it slid in and out while running and thus I couldn't apply pressure in all the ways that I wanted. I think a circular or semicircular grinder or cutter would work better, so I may get one.
Here's the second pump before the mod:
And after:
The flash really emphasizes the scratching and I haven't cleaned out the chips yet, so they look a little rougher than they really are. Overall I'm pretty happy with how they came out; getting rid of the lip there should earn me most of the performance improvement I'm after, and the rounding is good enough.
I'm about to order some more parts that will be mounting in the bottom of the case. Later this week I should be able to figure out how I'm going to lay the components out.
Last edited by NicePants42; 09-03-2007 at 08:31 PM.
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Looking good man! I wish I knew more about modding in general to offer some worthwhile insight, but I know nothing so I will just sit back and watch.
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Would one of those flexible dremel shafts of helped (how do I say this without dirty minds reading into this?) get your bit in deeper?
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I haven't been able to do much in the way of machining or assembly yet, but some new parts came in, and I'm getting a decent idea of how the lower compartment of the case will be laid out.
First, I got a nice brick of 120mm fans. I'd spent some time testing various fans before deciding what to order for this build. I tried out a Sythe S-Flex Medium speed fan, and Enermax ENLOBAL fan, and a few different Yate Loon fans. I was very impressed with the quality and silence of the S-FLEX fan, but not impressed enough to spend $14 per fan. The ENLOBAL fan was quiet but also didn't move much air. In the end, I decided that Yate Loon Medium speed fans were the best combination of good airflow with low noise - a simple $12 Rheobus would add even more flexibility.
The thing with Yate Loons is that the quality is fairly variable - in this instance, I purchased 12 fans ($36!!) and took the time to listen to each of them on a Rheobus. I found that while all of the fans sounded great in the vertical position, 9 of the fans produced a noticeable rubbing noise when rotated to the horizontal position. Since I'll only have 3 fans mounted horizontally, this works out.
I'm thinking of trying to mount the rheobus in the base, with the knobs sticking out the back.
Here I've taped out the space in the base.
The side with the triple radiator can easily fit one of the MCP655s in the back. The only trick here will be fitting the rheobus behind the pump.
The other side is going to be more cramped. Aside from dealing with the wiring (I'll be using a different PSU, but the dimensions are the same as the one pictures), the pump needs to be oriented in a somewhat funky manner, and it looks like this is going to push the radiator up towards the front slightly, meaning that up to 1" of fan surface may not line up with the side grills - something I was trying to avoid, but not a big deal.
Top view. Mounting the pump will be fun.
Here's about where the Multioption res will go - I'm not a fan of the new mounting brackets - clear is nice but the sharp edges will mark the clear tube. The tape in this picture marks the edge of the motherboard as well a line for a plate of aluminum which I'll use to mount the reservoir and hide some wires. It'll probably be at an angle -
like this.
I also got some copper fittings to help with the tube routing down there - it'll mean more connections and more hose clamps, but in this case it's going to be a necessary. Martinm210 has done some nice testing to show that the copper fittings result in the lowest pressure drop, so at least I know that I'm using the best 90-degree fitting solution here.
Hopefully I'll have more soon.
Last edited by NicePants42; 12-20-2007 at 03:01 PM.
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Ok, so apparently planning stuff out doesn't excite you people. How about some action?
We'll start with the easy stuff. I know I've seen this mod somewhere before - I'll link the log if I find it. EDIT: Found it. Anyway, here's that fan controller I said I was thinking about sticking in the base.
That's about where it needs to go. I had originally thought that I'd just cut a clean sheet of black aluminum, drill some holes for knobs and mounting screws and replace the perforated back panel, but those heatsinks are going to need some air, so I decided to hack up the stock perforated panel.
Here you can see where the knobs need to come through. Drilling through solid plate would've been easier than hacking through that perforated stuff, but this particular part of the mod isn't about being easy.
After much drilling and dremelling, the holes are big enough to fit the knobs.
Ta-dah! 20 watts per channel of stealthed fan control, less the obnoxiously bright LEDs.
And now for the part you probably haven't seen before - that boring piece of tape at that boring angle...
Plus a cheap piece of 6"x18" project aluminum from Lowes (they cut plexiglass to size!!)
Held in place after a quick dremel cut to length.
I cut a couple pieces of aluminum angle for mounting brackets.
Held in place, drilled some holes, and attached the brackets to the plate with my trusty pop-rivet installer thingy. (I actually removed those rivets and cleaned the surfaces before installing new rivets to make sure that everything was flat.)
Then it's just a matter of drilling mounting holes in the case for screws.
And now I've got a nice removable panel there. The panel extends forward at an angle slightly past the rear of the front 5.25" mounting panel, so I bent the top a little and added another mounting screw to keep the thing from wobbling, seen here...
..and here in the top right corner.
At the top you can still see the blue tape that marks the edge of the motherboard. This plate should help to cover the wires up to that point pretty well. If the plate seems short, remember that the MCR320 in the top will be hanging down in there - it won't seem short then.
Here are a few views form the top.
I'll probably still end up cutting the motherboard tray in order to more easily fit thicker hunks of cable (you can see that the main 20pin cable bends the aluminum plate), but this plate will help to hide any smaller (SATA, floppy) cables, as well as any holes.
Not only will this plate help to hide wires, it will also give me something to mount the reservoir to other than the motherboard tray. This way, I can remove the motherboard tray without removing the reservoir, which will help to reduce the hassle of changing out hardware. During assembly I'll try to make the most of this - I'm hoping to make it very easy to perform a hardware upgrade.
And that about covers everything I've done thus far. This Saturday I hope to be able to machine some blocks to help mount the radiators at the right height, and that should just about do it for machining.
The problem I'm facing right now is availability of parts - Petras is out of several of the barbs I'd been planning to use, as well as the MCW60 + G80 adapter plate and D-tek Uni-sink. D-tek is supposedly releasing a new version of the Uni-sink by the end of the month. I'm also undecided on what motherboard to use - I was originally thinking I'd get the ASUS Blitz Formula (love that integrated watercooling) but considering my other parts issues and the fact that X38 will be released in ~ 2 weeks, I might just wait it out and get my old system running on air temporarily.
Anyway, hope you're enjoying the mod!
Last edited by NicePants42; 09-14-2007 at 02:04 PM.
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Wow, this is an incredible case mod that in my opinion really gets back to the original spirit of case modding. Back before every joe and jane could buy a pre-modded case with LEDs and bling, y0. The vertical milling part in particular is very cool. I don't really like working with plexi, though - cutting it on the table saw sends a shower of stinging melted plastic back at me. I don't think I even want to try using my router on the stuff, unless I want to make a dash to the ER with a broken wrist. I like those UV-sensitive orange fans you started with.
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Wow, your quite outdoing what any above average joe would do here, very nice design and mod work. all ive ever done was change case lights haha.
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