[00:00] Hey, what am I doing sitting inside school and Facebook marketplace on a beautiful day like today? I should clearly be outside browsing Facebook marketplace.
[00:13] Wait, no way! Isn't she beautiful? This is the Taylor 349 Frozen Carbonated Beverage Freezer.
[00:25] freezer. She features four seven-quart freezing cylinders cooled by twin compressors rated at 14,000 BTU per hour with microprocessor control
[00:37] for your beverage preparation needs. Of course, I didn't buy this thing to drink from it. You're not. No, if I'm at refined sugar at my age, no, I'm going to use it to cool this
[00:49] PC. No, no, hear me out. Hear me out. Okay, okay. Why not go? Holy sh**! Let's go back in! Oh my god, we didn't insulate any of this!
[01:02] This has never been done before, to my knowledge. We gotta power it down, we gotta power it down. Maybe there's a reason nobody's ever done this before. It's not gonna be that easy. This thing's been sitting for like ten years, it's still full of syrup, there's leaks everywhere,
[01:14] and it's supposed to be running under pressure. Like high pressure? Probably. No worries. I got a guy. And with a bit of his help, I believe we are going to be able to not only cool our QC with slushies,
[01:31] but also dispense slushies from the QC cooling loop for gaming consumption. I've also got a guy who can do the segue to our sponsor, Squarespace.
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[02:04] Become a syrup at least? Oh yeah, we got a bunch. The first thing we're going to have to do is some cleaning. It looks like the previous owner left us some juice. Maybe we're going to have to replace the front panel with some kind of manifold. Did this screw off though? Oh, let's take a look. Okay. Oh my god. Okay, only lines are going to be left. Oh my god. Oh my god.
[02:16] Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. Okay, only lines would be adjacent to this. Oh good god, oh my.
[02:28] There's an air conditioner in the bottom there. Oooh. So we're feeding in syrup and CO2. It mixes in here. And then it drains out into down here. So this is both simple and incredibly complicated.
[02:40] I think we're activating the manual right here. Okay. Well, just in the sense that it's helpful to be cleaning and doing some minor repairs. Here's how this thing is meant to work, at least as I understand it. a steady stream of water, CO2, and syrup all into these hoppers up here to get mixed up
[02:54] and shoved down into the little freezing tubes down here, where basically they'll just spin around over and over again, ice flows in the walls, and use that to make your slushy or your PQ or whatever.
[03:07] It may not look like much, but she is fully operational now. So we've had people actually drink slush from this. We have, yes. And they didn't die. And they didn't die. That's terrific. Now it's time to end the theorizing and actually get to work building a loop into this thing.
[03:21] Justin had a really good idea for how to get the fluid out of the slushy cylinders. So, Behold. Very nice. Yep, got the G1 quarter fitting, standard PC cooling fitting. Oh she knows. And so we just can use the standard, well the pressure inside the cylinder plus the auger.
[03:38] Spiral auger and the other end, a little more complicated. We dug this insulation off one of the cylinders, looking for an easy way to get the return coolant lines on the PC back into the cylinder.
[03:51] And what we discovered was it's actually double-layered, and the refrigerant sits in between the walls for maximum slush and cooling, which leaves us with where?
[04:03] We thought about going into these hoppers. That's where the CO2, the water, and the Cerebol mix. Right. But they're under pressure, and you don't really want to screw with a pressure vessel. Right. What about second speed hole? Brilliant. Now comes the part where we go completely
[04:17] off script and Justin and I actually execute the plan or maybe execute this slushy machine. Let's hope not. Let's really hope not. Even though it was a Facebook marketplace find,
[04:29] it wasn't that cheap. This actually gives us a really good look at why we weren't able to go into the back of the cylinder either. You can see that between all the moving parts in here and the double wall.
[04:41] There's just no way to get into it. Want to show me how to put the augers together? Well, there's just that and then one goes on this side here. Okay, perfect. I got it. Is it already all the same? They should be, yeah. Getting this thing back up and running then, I mean, was it pretty straightforward? How's
[04:54] access to replacement parts, manuals, software? It's a tailor. Oh, the McDonald's ice cream machine maker. Yeah, the intimate ones. So if we break anything... Oh, you have a shirt. Cool.
[05:06] So if you look at the back, it's keyed. Oh, yeah, I see that. Oh, genius. Hey, all right. Just like that. Just like that. With those installed, we just need to... Oi!
[05:19] Okay, is that supposed to happen? What just happened? Yeah, so that's basically just a retaining pin for this, so you can't pull it out. Got it, and I had it upside down. So does that mean if I went to the local 7-Eleven or I just...
[05:32] I could just pull that pin? On the job, yeah. Basically, this just compresses the spring, lifts up this dual-gasketed sort of plunger here, and then opens up, ah, right there, this hole where this part of the plate mushes the slushy through.
[05:46] Okay, but there is one important question. Gentlemen, slushy, slurpy, or squishy? Well, slurpy's so hard. It's so icy. Oh. There's one more thing.
[05:58] This center scraper piece has got to go right up there And what does this bad boy do It just helps clear the slushy out of the center of the auger I have discovered a clever anti measure Oh so you can steal the retaining pin Unless you also steal all of these nuts
[06:13] Yeah, you'll slid down a little bit. Steal these nuts. These bad boys sit kinda here in order to reduce wear and tear. Yeah. But we actually install them on this side. And then, oh, don't forget your gasket.
[06:27] Now, long-time viewers of the channel may remember, I've actually done a video cooling a PC with a fridge before. It didn't work. So, why would we think that the outcome here would be different? I mean, this is essentially just a beverage fridge.
[06:39] Well, yes. But also, no. See, this is a commercial-grade beverage fridge. It is designed to be operated 24-7 in demanding environments, and, maybe more importantly, it is designed to get those beverages ready fast.
[06:55] so it has mondo excess cooling capacity compared to how relatively little work it normally needs to do, which is just keep this cold, cool down any additional syrup and water that gets out into the cylinder.
[07:11] To be clear, a constant heat load is not something this is designed for, and not something I would actually recommend for long-term use, But, at least for temporary purposes, it should be able to comfortably handle the heat load
[07:25] of both our PC and our frozen beverages. Let's build that PC. And it's done. Sort of. If we want to use Flushy to cool our components, we're probably going to need a water cooling
[07:38] unit. Now our original plan was to use this gorgeous piece of copper that Justin made up using a combination of 3D scanning the card and also some of his own innovations. The idea
[07:50] here was that because our coolant is going to be so cold, we don't have to worry as much about having a dense thin array to maximize heat transfer. We're more concerned with creating a design that is really low restriction so that we can get like flush through it rather
[08:07] than mixed with water. Well, it turns out that with the right pump, you can actually force the slush through a regular commercial block, even with an impingement plate installed
[08:19] in it. This is a peristaltic medical pump. Oh, and I totally see how it works. It's got a motor on the back, just like any good pump would, but instead of an impeller that's designed to circulate fluid, it's got these three rollers that actually squish
[08:36] and compress a tube inside to force fluid in one side and out the other. Kind of like your digestive tract. So we should pump poop if we really wanted to. Uh, yeah, okay.
[08:48] What the hell did I just walk in on? Poop pumping. Let's take a short break from building, though. I heard you have an important decision for me to make. Yes, what flavor? Oh, one of my options. So we got lemon limes, cranberry cocktail, or craft cola.
[09:02] This is going to sound crazy, but I actually want to pick based on color. Oh my goodness! Yeah. Oh! Oh, every restaurant employee knows how crappy these things are to deal with, both whipping them and then breaking the boxes down later.
[09:15] People at the restaurant, you know. So, yeah, this one's transparent. Oh, no, forget it. Well, here's the thing. I bought this in color. So we can just dump it into the hopper. Okay. Okay, what color is the cranberry cocktail, though? Drop it open. Let's see.
[09:27] I need some ocean spray cranberries, you say? Ooh, red. Ooh, that's like a deep red. Everyone knows red is performance. Let's go cranberry cocktail. Okay. Ooh, but I like the flavor of lemon lime better. This is a hard decision. Well, we do have two barrels. You can do both.
[09:39] Yes. Can we put some yellow dye in the lemon lime, and then we'll go red on the cranberry cocktail? Yeah, we can do that. Let's do it. The bar I work at kindly provided these for us. Oh! Shout out Billy Paul at Flockinghound Pub. Shout out!
[09:51] You're the best. So we're going to have a cap on them, which we've got to pop off. Should we just be more honest, though? I don't want any caps in our relationship. Sorry. You got this, I believe. There you go, sir.
[10:03] And then which one goes on? It's going to be the green one. However, I just had a thought. We should probably put a whole clamp or two on these sides. Now all we've got to do is... Say field. Do we really need these? Eh, safe and sorry. Wait, did you say safe and sorry?
[10:16] You can do both. This is where we turn on the CO2 gas? Yes, correct. Fun fact, I did not actually realize that flushies are carbonated. Yeah, no, no, no. Like, how are they carbonated?
[10:30] They're tumbling around. But I guess they're in a sealed environment, so... Depends on the country, too. It depends on the country. Apparently... Oop. In the States, apparently it's not actually carbonated, but...
[10:42] In Canada it is. Weird. I could never tell anyway. It doesn't seem carbonated. No. And in this case, it's actually doing double duties, and it's actually what's powering our fuel pumps. Oh. These aren't electrically driven. They run off of CO2.
[10:54] Oh, which it's not. Okay. Yeah. Do it. Oh, God. Now we'll fire on the machines. This is my jam. safety timeout, any key abort, that's an error, it's fine. We legitimately did have some
[11:10] tailor issues, like we can't get into any of the configuration panels because we don't know the password, so yeah, your fault. So first things first, now that everything is going, we're gonna hit prime. Nice. Oh hell it's going, it's going! Oh you can see the green, you can see the red.
[11:28] Oh buddy! Alright because it wasn't flowing as good as it should have been, I think we should drain a little bit out so that way we get more contrary syrup for it. I was actually going to say, we can try it now and see if the flavors are like,
[11:42] oh, it's totally fine. With it primed, what do we do next? All right. Oh, can I do it? Hit the other one. It's not ready yet. Nice. So now just to make sure that everything is actually cooling, we can go into the menu.
[11:55] Yeah. And we can get to order a hot dog. That would be so sweet. Is that an alarm? Is that a good alarm That the everything okay alarm Right Can we turn it off For five minutes at a time And just yeah because we can get into it it just
[12:14] Yeah, cool. So we got our barrel temperatures here, and as you can see, temperatures are starting to drop. Oh, they're dropping. They drop quick. I mean, they would. That's a giant compressor for just cooling a couple gallons of fluid.
[12:28] Like, it's about 20 minutes to get the flush. Like, it's pretty quick. Wow. All right. That gives me and Jordan 20 minutes to be ready. We got this. You know, I don't think there's been a project in recent memory that they thought I'm more crazy for starting than this one.
[12:41] It took us a year to get to this point. With all the, like, fighting with this thing being broken and learning how to use it and figuring out how to actually get coolant pumped through it.
[12:53] Just, you need it with months. Think about it, though. We now have, as a company, a working slushie machine. for the low, low cost of, like, syrup, we can have slushies.
[13:05] Hey, Justin, you're bleeding. We are. Try to figure out where the... Ah, right there. Ah, dang, it's the one I did. There we go. Solid. Oh, we're getting close. We almost have slush. Whoa, buddy!
[13:17] However, one thing I did notice on this machine, for whatever reason, this barrel cools down way faster than this one. It's possible that the refrigerant is in series. It wouldn't normally matter, because for the most part, they're just doing maintenance.
[13:31] They're not actually pulling down, I mean, more than what, once a day? Yeah, that's a good point, actually. Yeah, they're still steadily dropping. If you ever happen to find yourself water blocking or just taking off your cooler for maintenance, it's a great time to add PTM 7950 to your GPU die.
[13:46] Available at lttstore.com. With that in mind, not all thermal interface materials are ideal for all applications, and for sub-zero, PTM is not necessarily the best, so we've gone with a more standard thermal paste. Number two's frozen, that's not what I was going to say.
[13:59] Nope. The second one's frozen, we're going to do some quality control. Heck yeah. That's good. Now, a question for you, Jordan. Yes, sir. Do we need to use any special kind of tubing in the loop or anything?
[14:14] Like a food-safe tubing? We have got food-safe tubing. Nice. All right. Power for our GPU. And then, I mean, that's basically... That's it. You've got to pump that in and then the pump.
[14:26] Right, okay, let's get the pump in here. In an effort to maintain as much food safety as we can, we're going to be using brand new fittings, and then because we don't actually have any that are exactly the right inner diameter and outer diameter, we're not going
[14:41] to be using the outer collars. We're just going to put them on like that, and then use these worm drives in order to seal them up. Allegedly number one done. I'm actually going to try taking it out of our little cellar here and just see how it goes. It is coming
[14:54] out on its own. Not very fast. That is way too thick. Yeah. I mean we'll get some heat into it and it'll change very quickly. Well I'll just try and get some more out and I'll richen the mixture. So underneath the decat tray there's four mixtures down here and this
[15:08] is what controls your water to syrup mixture. So all I did was just give it a quarter turn just to give it a bit more syrup and that should allow the slush mix to be more slushy. I saw we used this operator's manual to fix that. Did we steal this? No comment.
[15:24] Wait, where's our pump going? I forgot about that. Give me your slide. Brilliant. Okay, so here's what we're going to do then. I've got the outlet of my GPU block going into the inlet of my CPU block.
[15:37] Okay. I'm going to take out these two PCI covers, and the hoses just go like this. I did it. Ta-da. And then, where was the pump? Was the plan to power the pump off of the PC? No.
[15:49] Oh, okay, perfect. Then it should need more power than that. Right. How long does this need to be now, then? That might be a little long. Let's get closer to the machine. That makes sense. One, two, three, hop, boom. Yeah, that was about to happen.
[16:01] Okay. No way! Okay, this is amazing. The ergonomics of this are incredible. So I just put my PC right here.
[16:13] I'm gaming. I got Slurpee. I got cooling. I mean, we can turn it around. You just put it right there because we drove her. Holy crap.
[16:26] So I think we should do a return on that side. Return on this side? Okay. It's happening. Guys, it's been a year in the making since I found this stupid thing on Facebook. Is there a reason that you put these long extensions on here? Does that just help with the ergonomics of it? Yeah, it's hard to clear the handle that way.
[16:39] Got it, got it. That makes sense. You guys aren't going to know this, but back to back, I got to shoot a steam-cooled steam machine and slushy-cooled PC. Like, this is so cool.
[16:51] Where do you want the pump? Does that need to... Which side does it need to be on? Uh, this side is the inlet. It depends on motor direction. It makes a reverse direction of the motor. Okay. Pump right here? Put it front and center? Yeah.
[17:03] Okay. There to there? Yeah. There to out? Yeah. Wait. Do we have other fittings for this? No, no, no. Uh, I really don't think it does. Dude. What? Do we have a coupler? Coupler? I hardly know her. I'll be right back with a coupler.
[17:16] You know, you could go easy on the taste test there, Justin. No, I'm trying to keep the mixture consistent, because if we let it freeze too long, it doesn't move properly. Oh, okay, so that's something that we just have to kind of fine-tune the syrup-water ratio? Yeah, and we don't have the refractometer to do it correctly.
[17:30] Sorry, we need a what now to do it correctly? A refractometer. And what, you're just pointing at the thing, or what? No, you pour the syrup-water mixture into it, and then it'll tell you how much sugar level is in the syrup mix, and then you just base on that.
[17:43] What's a refractometer run you? No idea. Good question. Okay, here we go. closing up the last sitting now how does a peristaltic pump get primed uh
[17:55] that's the best part you just turn it on really and it just moves the air like it's it like seals against the thing to just correct wow right because otherwise how could you part exactly dude we are so freaking close okay are we ready So let do one more purge One more purge Okay She flows
[18:16] Yep. She's looking good. Okay. So yeah, you're going to crack that one. Boom. You're going to crack that one. A boom. And you're going to hit the power button. A boom.
[18:28] Holy, holy crap. Holy crap. It's going back in. That pump Frickin' pump This thing frickin' goes
[18:41] Holy crap Let's power on the system We're gonna get Oh my god We didn't insulate any of this No If we were gonna 24-7 this We've actually done a number of guides
[18:53] For how to condensate to improve your hardware I don't have time to talk about that right now Whatever Check out one of the videos I'm playing Where is the damn power I have no idea We found it. Okay, let's do this.
[19:05] Let's get all this clear. We've got post, ladies and gentlemen. You're seeing it right here. World's first flush-and-cooled gaming system. Holy s***. This has never been done before, to my knowledge.
[19:18] Holy s***. What just happened? The pump stopped. Did it die already? Did it overheat? It's not hot. But even good. What have we done? Holy s***, it's solid ice.
[19:30] Justin, it's solid ice, isn't it? Dude, it's frozen in the block. Yeah, turn it off, turn it off, because we'll definitely overload it. Okay, we've got to power it down. We've got to power it down.
[19:42] Maybe there's a reason nobody's ever done this before. We need to put in some heat. Okay, okay. We've got that going. We've got... What can I do on the stinky you? It's in a bench. It's frozen freaking solid, dude. Okay, so we apparently do not have our mixture quite right.
[19:56] Did the system just crash? Oh, God. I've got the pump back on. Is it even moving anything, though? Oh, it is. It's moving just a tiny bit. It is moving a little bit. Okay, but I'm not getting an output from the GPU right now. Here, let's power down and power back up.
[20:10] Our poor GPU block is, like, frosting over. Yep, okay. That's fine. That's fine. Okay, we're back. Screw it. We're going straight to Black Myth Wukong. We're going straight to Gaming Boys.
[20:22] Definitely a little thick. That may be the problem. Delicious, though. Okay, AW info.
[20:34] GPU temp, 3.5 degrees casually. My CPU is sitting at around 12 degrees. Okay, we're launching Blacksmith Wukong. Gotta refresh my body. Is it moving?
[20:46] Yeah. Oh, it was. We got flow. We got flow? There comes a place moving in the CPU block in the empty host here now. Heck yeah. CPU's still at 28 degrees, so we're still good on that.
[20:59] retrying launching the game. I am about to be the first man to game on a fleshy cooled computer. There she goes, she's moving, she's moving. TPU dropped to 45, 44. Hey Black Mith, you should launch
[21:13] anytime now. Come on buddy, come on, come on. Oh it's frozen in here. Right here, Garty. TPU's at 99.5. Shaders on place, we're in progress. Oh she's moving, she's moving. We've got ice in the TPU block.
[21:28] We got movement. I don't know if I'm ready to call this a success, but the system hasn't crashed or died yet. Yeah, it's definitely just too thick. As you can see, even though I haven't drank that much, it's like, it's snow already.
[21:42] Um, boys, the coolant may be about to boil in that CPU block. Okay, this will set up. Here we go, here we go, here we go. Wait, are we circulating? Maybe. We are! Holy crap! Frame cap X, what are we at for chems?
[21:56] Oh, why do I not see chems? Okay, let's go. Confirm. Here we go, here we go, here we go. Black Mip Wukong, cooled by Slot C. Holy crap, it's going. Guys, it's going. It's working!
[22:08] Here we are. Black Mip Wukong, casual 200 FPS. I'm going to be honest with you, I have no idea what settings we're running at. Feels like there might be some frame gen involved.
[22:21] Oh yeah, frame gen's on. Let's turn that off. Blah, blah, blah. Cinematic. We're at 4K, about 75, 85 FPS. Hold on. What are my temps, though?
[22:33] CPU is sitting at 33. 33 degrees Celsius. Hold on one sec. Oh, yeah. GPU, 25 degrees.
[22:48] See, the real question this thing is going to raise is, why wouldn't everybody do this now? It's just so convenient. I don't think there's much more to say. other than I'm late for a meeting, and I promised them if they gave me an extra 20 minutes,
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[24:07] Very similar energy. Poop pumping.