Recent content by Monkey Puzzle

Merry Christmas all, it's been a while. Since the last update I made a pump bracket benhind the pc case with a hole it pokes through, so just the pump reservoir protrudes into the case. A lot of time and effort have gone into bending the 14mm copper pipes for the hard-tubing, and if I'm honest...

Made a jig (from a slightly sorry looking 10mm thick sheet of plexiglass) to keep the veneered backwall flat for sanding and coating with more coats of 'finishing oil' - the backwall is thin and fiddly and tricky to sand between coats and needs to be flat for applying the oil (and messy if this...

Took a dremel to the I/O PCI card aluminium bracket to fit the vertical GPU bracket which is resting on it in this photo (those horizontal struts with the pressed grooves seen behind it had to be cut to fit it, 3 countersunk M4 holes drilled to attach it at the front, and 5 m3 holed redrilled...

Fiddling round with pump positioning, case lying on its back on a polystyrene sheet. Might be the shortest ever hard tube to connect! 20230410_194342_Edited by Tom ., on Flickr

Few photos of PCI bracket and the lovely Alphacool Eisblock Aurora GTX4090 water block Alphacool generously sponsored the project with (vielen dank!). Bit of work done; heated 14mm OD/12mm ID copper tubing to anneal, straightened with an inner 12mm solid soft silicone tube, outer spring steel...

Not really an update, just a few extra phone photos in daylight: 20230226_165447_HDR by Tom ., on Flickr 20230225_163211_HDR by Tom ., on Flickr 20230225_163149_HDR by Tom ., on Flickr

Sorry for delay in updating - life got in the way. Right then. System in, ghetto-rigged. Photos below That big fat heatsink on the 4090 goes well past the PCI bracket and made fitting thumbscrews to attach the 4090 to the pci bracket very, very annoying That is a block of polystyrene and some...

Here's the Bitspower vertical GPU conversion bracket (disassembled). As with most Bitspower stuff it's very nice, CNCed aluminium, though anodised black which doesn't fit the walnut and shiny aluminium of the rest of the case. 20230102_224607_HDR by Tom ., on Flickr Thanks Andy (Vault-Tec) for...

Brrrrraaakkkk! Turkey getting stuffed, and merry Christmas! Been a bit snowed under with flu and family things. Gave the walnut-veneered wall 2 coats of the finishing oil (tung/polyurethane mix mainly). Got an EK FLT80 reservoir and gold-plated D5 bottom. Probably going to live like in the...

Thanks Thomas - it's a very attractive waterblock - it arrived today! along with a very cool modding mat and some ?stress balls?! Thank you very much, that was unexpected!

Update Couldn't help tinkering a bit more before putting pc hardware in. Tidied up the alternative orientation PSU hole with sone dremelling/filing and sanding. Cut and installed some rubber spacer strip between the aluminium angle legs and the veneered backwall, and drilled/countersunk 8...

November 2022 update First coat of Liberon Finishing Oil applied to most sides of the walnut. Takes a few coats to really start to get depth to the finish and a degree of gloss. 20221016_183656 by Tom ., on Flickr 20221016_183641 by Tom ., on Flickr 20221016_183605 by Tom ., on Flickr Added...

October 2022 Update Put the fiddly little pieces shown here between the pipes with tweezers. 20221003_201736_HDR by Tom ., on Flickr Tricky to show and the torch gives a purplish colouration, but nice pretty seamless fit 20221003_195451_HDR by Tom ., on Flickr I got these little brass...

I've veneered the resin manifolds - a lot more work than I expected - had to sand and trim down the resin then make everything flat and even. I then polished and sprayed the ports to the radiator case with incralac acrylic lacquer to protect from corrosion, leak-tested and cleaned the inside of...

A lot of this update is faff. Cat decided not to supervise. 20220723_105151_HDR by Tom ., on Flickr A 25mm outer diameter steel pipe... 20220707_220837_HDR by Tom ., on Flickr A sharpened 25mm OD pipe for stamping holes in the veneer for the copper ports. 20220707_220842_HDR by Tom ...