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Hi all! Thought it would be fun to take you behind the scenes in the lifecycle of a reservoir at Scylla! Check out the final products in the shop!
Every reservoir begins its life as a sheet of acrylic. Cast acrylic, specifically. Of the two main ways acrylic is manufactured, cast or extruded, cast acrylic has a higher melting point. This makes it ideal not only for liquid cooling, but allows us to operate our CNC operations at higher RPM’s, producing clearer finishes.
There are several prominent design choices in our lineup of products. For example, the striped pattern at the bottom of the reservoirs. During the machining process, machining marks are inevitably created as a byproduct. To make them more pleasing to the eye then, the pocket operation leaves a tiny amount of stock to leave, just enough for a parallel tool path rotated 90 degrees to come in and create a more attractive pattern.Â
Each reservoir is machined in three separate operations, first is the back side of the bottom piece, second is the front of the bottom piece, and last is the front of the top piece. At no time during this process is the acrylic ever faced. This allows us to maintain its factory sheen, made possible since each reservoir consists of only two pieces.
Following the machining of any reservoir, if the customer has requested an engraving, the top piece is taken to our laser to be engraved. In preparation for engraving, the image is converted into grayscale, inverted, then a bayer bitmap is applied, allowing us to maintain the tonal quality of the image.
Next, all the finished pieces are assembled by hand. To ensure that no leaks will occur once the product is received, every item is tested prior to being shipped out. Assuming the product passes the leak test, it is then packaged and shipped to the customer’s address.Â