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Work in progress Adam makes poor financial decisions build

FreeKnight said:
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Finally had success with getting the block where I want it. Took sanding starting at 800>1000>1200>1500>2000>2500>3000 and I tried PlastX again with ho-hum results. Switched back to doing a polish with Novus heavy scratch polish and going from the high to medium cut pads then switching to the fine scratch polish and using the medium and light pads.

Now there's basically no visible hairlines and it's good enough I'm done playing with it. Resevoirs should arrive next week and then I can get back to building this thing (radiator fitup issues aside...)
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I don't know that I would have the patience for it, but it looks spectacular!! Well done.
 
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Three reservoirs to choose from arrived. I'm leaning towards the furthest left, the the middle one is tempting. The far right is the plainest but it's the only one that has foam in the reservoir to allow some kind of filtering/softening.

In other developments, I've realized I'm going to have to modify one fan. with fans in place there's just no way to tighten the fittings on the 360. They sit too close to the fans (literally too much friction/too tight to seat them). Going to dremel the side of the fan a bit to have a small 'divet' on the fan housing to allow the fittings to tighten, or so I hope. Good thing I have a spare fan :S

If not I'll likely have to use a spacer that's thinner than the compression fitting to allow it to fit.
 
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FreeKnight said:
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Three rads to choose from arrived. I'm leaning towards the furthest left, the the middle one is tempting. The far right is the plainest but it's the only one that has foam in the reservoir to allow some kind of filtering/softening.

In other developments, I've realized I'm going to have to modify one fan. with fans in place there's just no way to tighten the fittings on the 360. They sit too close to the fans (literally too much friction/too tight to seat them). Going to dremel the side of the fan a bit to have a small 'divet' on the fan housing to allow the fittings to tighten, or so I hope. Good thing I have a spare fan :S

If not I'll likely have to use a spacer that's thinner than the compression fitting to allow it to fit.
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By rads you mean reservoirs I assume? What is the tubing looking stuff in the middle of the left and centre ones? It is actually tubing?
 
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By rads you mean reservoirs I assume? What is the tubing looking stuff in the middle of the left and centre ones? It is actually tubing?
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Ooops, had rads on the mind. Yep their resevoirs. They're just 'show' tubing. Likely won't be very visible with the EK fluid in there. They're just optics though, no flow through them and they don't do anything.
 
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Finally not travelling for a couple weeks so I made some decent progress tonight. Loop is roughly finished, need to trim a few pieces so they line up a little better. Also have rubber bushings working as stands for the pump and res, but I'd like to cut some out of MDF and mount them to each item to clean it up.

I'd say I'm 90% of the way there though. Need to start cleaning up the various fan, sensor and RGB wires then it's time for a water test.
 
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Pressure test passed at about .625 bars for about a half-hour. If it'll hold air there's pretty much zero chance of a water leak.
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Also cut a couple little mounts from rubber bar stock for the reservoir and pump. Turns out Lowe's has little rubber bars that they sell for patio tempered glass panels, so got about a dozen two inch long bars for like $5. Probably the most cost effective thing in the build so far. Just need to dig up my two sided tape and attach them. Shouldn't be too noticeable in the final build.

Next steps are to remove the remaining M2s from my O11 build and the two 2.5" drives, connect all the lighting and then this thing is ready to be filled.
 

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Fill and bleed went pretty well. Filled from both the reservoir and the plug on the top. Lots of bubbles originally, but they bled out of the top of the res pretty quickly.
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Plugin and having some problems with the CPU block display and I still need two cables to covert the GPU, pump and res LEDs to the stanard 3 pin ARGB, but it's up and running for now.
 
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