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Old 06-05-2009
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Default Cold Blast from the Past !

This is basically a repost from another site, but here you go as this section seems empty

Cold Blast from the Past !

It was one of those days where I was sitting in front of my computer, bummed, trying to figure out a few life issues I have mainly with the care of my mother who is in a dementia/Alzheimer’s care facility, but my thoughts kept going to benching as they always seem to do LOL

An email dropped in my inbox from a person I had not heard from in some time and that in itself was surprising to me.
I opened the email and my jaw just about dropped to the floor.

A most amazing thing was dropped on my door step, well email inbox completely out of the blue.
I had to reread it several times just to make sure and I hit the reply button and asked to tell me more !

Several email exchanges went back and forth, my mind was racing thinking about the details and basically how the heck am I going to pull this off.

Finally a phone call from this person and things were settled on with dates and times etc.

The day came today and off I went, leaving at 1:00am and just returning at 7:30pm, something like 18.5 hours of solid driving of 856 miles. I am very tired LOL.

This is what dropped into my benching room tonight. This is the build log.
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...ad.php?t=94795

Just a pic of it here, this is a 3 year old picture btw


And it in it’s new home :up:


I want to make this clear here. I do not know who the original owner of this machine is. From what I was told it was only used a few times and put into storage for all these years.
Please do not ask any details of any of the parties involved in this as they wish to remain unknown, for whatever reasons they have, I will honor their wishes.

All I know is it was offered to me by a 3rd party broker and I went for it.

The unit needs a bit of cleaning, mostly dust, and a few other things tidied up. But all in all it is in great shape.
It was run for me so I could see how it works and with different loads.

At 200w… it is holding -95c…
At 270w… it is holding -89c….
At 285w… it is holding -87c….

As I am a bit tired atm I will test this myself here at home, get used to running it and get to work on cleaning it up. I will post more pic’s of it and do a few benches with it to see how it handles these loads.

You cannot imagine how I excited I am to have this unit in my bench room, it was the first 2 stager build that I just feel in love with back when I first started looking at these things, and now here it is :

Enjoy !

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WOW!! Please please please go on a benching binge with that thing
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WOW!! Please please please go on a benching binge with that thing
+1 Infinity to that sentiment.

We're definitely subscribed!.......................................
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Oops I still crapped my pants. You are my hero as well Buckeye.
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Me 3... I think I just wet myself!


BTW guy's, what kind of thermometers/probes are those? I've been looking but haven't found any that get much below 50c.
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k-type temp probes, and multimeters that read temps with k-type probes.

I picked up craftsman from Sears that came with a k-probe.
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I picked mine up at Harbor Freight Tools for $19.99. It is $24.99 now. Still pretty damn cheap if you ask me. Gets the job done.

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=37772
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But that one says Temperature probe: 20° Celsius to 1000° Celsius, I need one that goes sub zero for dice and LN2 don't I?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermocouple

K Type: Continuos Temp Range: 0 to +1100 Short Term Temp Range: −180 to +1300

I have had mine hooked up for 8+ hours and stay at -60 degrees so I don't know what they are talking continuos and short term.
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k-type temp probes, and multimeters that read temps with k-type probes.

I picked up craftsman from Sears that came with a k-probe.

Hmmmm... I have a Craftsman around here somewhere but not sure it does temps. I'll have to look into that.
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