Soldering Station and Protoboard Power 5, Cooler Upgrades 2

While doing a quick thing with the 5.25" to 3.5" bracket (which I'll explain with the soundcard switchboard), I ended up remembering to take a couple pictures of the station itself and such.

The entire station.

The spacer between the board and the fan.

The cables for the dim and bright lights.

So there it is in all it's glory for now.

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With the cooler upgrades, I remembered something while I was doing stuff with Melty. The Fractal Design fans (both the high flow and high pressure fans) have rubber corners and grip the 6-32 screws that Corsair provides with their Hydro series kits quite well, so there's actually some space left over with their long screws. So while the remaining washers are installed between the head of the screws and the fan, they kinda just float around.

Anyway, I was initially right saying that I used the washers to mount the radiator tighter against the case, and that using the 6-32 x 3/16 screws was another idea I would've implemented had I no other choice. The Corsair screws and threads in the radiator are not the standard/usual 2B tolerance, so utilising 2B tolerance screws (the ones I bought from Fastenal) would open up the threading to where only 2B tolerance 6-32 screws would work.

I think that was all I wanted to cover that I remembered earlier.