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CaseLabs Mercury S8 + Pedestal Restoration

A white powder-coated CaseLabs Mercury S8 with pedestal, stored for roughly a decade and returned to the bench as part hardware archive, part recovery log, part proof of life.

Mercury S8 test bench hardware from the recovered Forgotten Industries archive
Mercury S8 test bench evidence / Forgotten Industries recovered social archive / 2016.

Dossier 001

The ship comes back in sequence.

Revived Started 2015 Revived 2026

Restoration state

The dossier tracks the chassis, pedestal, panels, cooling hardware, controls, and recovered instruction path. The current job is preservation first: identify parts, verify condition, protect provenance, and avoid irreversible changes until the evidence is stable.

Sequence

Recovery before interpretation.

  1. 01

    Recovery

    Chassis, pedestal, panels, cooling hardware, and related parts returned to the bench after long storage.

  2. 02

    Inventory

    Core case, pedestal, panels, radiators, pumps, Aquaero, fans, reservoir, fittings, and recovered parts entered into the archive record.

  3. 03

    Manual Path

    Manual 001 preserves the recovered assembly reference and missing instruction trail.

  4. 04

    Bench Verification

    Confirm tray type, panel configuration, mount inventory, radiator condition, pump behavior, and QDC path.

  5. 05

    Proof Build

    Assemble a functional loop with available hardware before making sale, storage, or final disposition decisions.

  6. 06

    Dossier

    Collect photos, part states, decisions, tests, provenance, and uncertainty into a durable dossier record.

SUBSYSTEM REGISTER

EACH SYSTEM EARNS ITS PLACE INDEPENDENTLY.

STRUCTURE

FI-CASE-001 + FI-PED-001 / dry assembly and measured service access pending.

COMPUTE

MSI X99S XPOWER AC + i7-5930K candidate / known prior failure preserved under FI-PROJ-009 / air-cooled POST gate pending.

POWER

FI-PSU-001 Corsair AX1500i / cable-set reconciliation and controlled electrical test required.

THERMAL

EK 360 mm radiator group + dual D5 pumps + reservoir + QDC boundary / clean, inspect, and pressure-test separately.

CONTROL

FI-CTRL-001 Aquaero 6 XT + fan and sensor network / bench verification pending.

STORAGE

FI-CL-PART-001 + FI-HDD-001 VelociRaptor set + FI-HDD-ICEPACK-001 carrier set / two stacks of four / RAID10-equivalent design baseline / direct-SATA qualification required.

DATA PATH

Separate SSD boot + IT-mode HBA proposed / exact controller, filesystem, and bay map unresolved.

CUSTODY

The Raptor array may become a working or exhibition tier. It will not become the archive's only copy.

Routes

Evidence first. Interpretation after.

  • Subsystems dossier

    Detailed subsystem register, evidence states, acceptance gates, storage topology, and integration order.

  • X99 recovery dossier

    Separate fault-history and minimum-bench record for the candidate MSI X99 compute core.

  • Eight-drive pedestal mount

    Object record for FI-CL-PART-001, the two-stack vibration-isolated storage assembly.

  • Manual 001

    CaseLabs Mercury S8 assembly restoration reference and preserved instruction path.

  • Inventory records

    Canonical objects tied to FI-PROJ-001: chassis, pedestal, panels, cooling hardware, controls, and recovered parts.

  • Structured field logs

    Bench evidence records, restoration strategy notes, object states, and next verification steps.

  • Dossiers shelf

    Return to the public index of active dossiers, rebuilds, object records, and continuity packets.