Recent content by NickF

Keep everything clean between grit changes, that is important if you want to be able to remove all the scratches from the previous grit of sandpaper - If you really want to get the scratches out you will wash your hands (the grit gets embedded in your hands so wash them throughly) , wash the...

You can do very little if the holes don't line up, centerpunch them 1'st (what you should have done to begin with, always mark screw holes in sheet metal and then center punch them so the drill doesn't wander) and then redrill them in the correct locations or use a small round file to elongate...

Not sure if this is for you, but I built my own using a truck heater core as the radiator, an eheim water pump, some 110ac 120mm fans and a radio shack 12v/120v relay to turn everything on. The water block can be purchased but I actually went to the extent of making my own out a block of Al I...

You can read the temp directly from the drives if they support SMART and I believe that the WD's should. There are utilities to do this, I believe "HDD temperature" is one (free for 30 days). Somewhere between 35 - 45 C is what you want to be at, the failure rate goes way up as temps increase on...

330W is not acceptable, 350W would be the bare minimum for that system. I would suggest something like an Antec 380 - 430 watt PS.